Seminar "Geschlecht und Technologie"
Seminar "Gender and Technology"
Wintersemester 2018/2019
Anelis Kaiser

 

Veranstaltungsort

Technische Fakultät, Georges-Köhler-Allee 52, Übungsraum SR 02-017

Uhrzeit

Freitag 08:00 - 10:00

Aktuelles

Startdatum: 19.10.2018
Enddatum: 08.02.2019

Lernziel

Die Studierenden lernen aktuelle Theorien und zentrale Fragen der Gender Studies in den MINT-Fächern kennen. Sie entwickeln ein wissenschaftliches Verständnis für Geschlecht als Kategorie in den Sozialwissenschaften und in der Wissenschaftsforschung und lernen, grundlegende Methoden der theoretischen und empirischen Geschlechterforschung anzuwenden. Fachübergreifende Ansätze werden unterrichtet.

Students get to know current theories and central questions to Gender Studies in STEM. They develop a scientific understanding of sex gender as category in social science and science studies and learn to apply basic methods from theroretical and empirical gender studies. Interdisciplinary approaches will be taught.

Lehrinhalt

Dieses Seminar untersucht die Bedeutung von Geschlecht in Technologie und technologischen Forschungsfeldern. Ausgehend von zentralen Publikationen aus dem Fachgebiet geht es in diesem Seminar um die vergeschlechtlichte Natur von Technologie, um die Rolle von Frau und Mann in diesem Feld und um die Vorstellungen von Geschlecht, die in technologischen Disziplinen vorherrschen. Basierend auf einer Vielzahl von Beispielen aus verschiedenen technologischen Unterdisziplinen wird diskutiert werden, wie Geschlecht in technologische Geräte und in technologische Disziplinen eingeschrieben wird. Studentinnen und Studenten werden mit Wissen und Methoden der Sozialwissenschaften und Gender Studies ausgestattet, dadurch werden ihre interdisziplinären Fähigkeiten gefördert. Diese Seminar hat Einführungscharakter.

This course will investigate the relevance of gender to technology. Based on crucial publications of the field, this seminar teaches students the gendered nature of technology, the roles women and men play in this field and the ideas of gender that exist in technological research areas. Starting from a variety of examples from different technological subfields, it will be discussed how sex/gender is inscribed in technological devices and technological disciplines. This will provide students with knowledge and methodology from social sciences and gender studies and thus strengthen their interdisciplinary skills. This seminar is an introduction.

Lehrmaterial (passwortgeschützt)

Datum	Titel
19.10.	Organisation. Briefing, Presentation of the concept.
26.10.	Introduction to the subject, exercise (“Gender in my department”).
02.11.	no classes.
09.11.	Gender and Technology Studies. Wajcman, Judy (2000). Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State is the Art? Social Studies of Science 30/3: 447-464.
16.11.	History of Technology & Gender. McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2002). “Barbara McClintock”, Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Washington D.C: Joseph Henry Press: 144-174. Bosch, Mineke (2007). A fascinating History of Curious Careers: Women in Science and Engineering in the Netherlands, 1650-2005. In: Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (Hg.) (2007): Gender and Science. Perspektiven in den Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld: 83-105.
23.11.	Computer Science. Bath, Corinna. 2014. Searching for methodology. Feminist technology design in computer science. In: Ernst, Waltraud und Ilona Horwath. Hrsg. Gender in Science and Technology. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Bielefeld: transcript. 57–78.
30.11.	Human Robotic Interaction – Should robots have a Gender? (Lesson is held by Dr. Mercedes Küffner) Nomura, T. (2017). Robots and Gender. Gender and the Genome 1: 18-25. Anne Cranny-Francis A. (2016) Is data a toaster? gender, sex, sexuality and robots. Palgrave Communications. 2:16072.
07.12.	Gendered Innovations in Engineering. Gendered Innovations in Engineering.
14.12.	Gender and Neuroscience. Schmitz, Sigrid (2012). The Neurotechnological Cerebral Subject: Persistence of Implicit and Explicit Gender Norms in a Network of Change. Neuroethics 5(3): 261–274.
21.12.	Women and Maths – Scientific Studies. Dar-Nimrod I., Heine S.  (2006). Exposure to scientific theories affects women's math performance. Science 314(5798): 435. Stoet G, Bailey DH, Moore AM, Geary DC (2016). Countries with Higher Levels of Gender Equality Show Larger National Sex Differences in Mathematics Anxiety and Relatively Lower Parental Mathematics Valuation for Girls. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153857.
11.01.	Women & Math & Culture. Hyde, J. S., & Mertz, J. E. (2009). Gender, culture, and mathematics performance. PNAS, 106 (22), 8801-8807.
18.01.	Postcolonial STS. Harding, Sandra (2011): Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology. In: dies (ed.): The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 1-31. Hammonds, Evelynn & Subramaniam Banu (2003). A Conversation on Feminist Science Studies. Signs 28: 923-944.
25.01.	Queer Studies and Technology. Landstrom, Catharina (2007). Queering Feminist Technology Studies. Feminist Theory 8(1): 7-26.
01.02.	Topic of Choice. Stanford researchers use machine-learning algorithm to measure changes in gender, ethnic bias in U.S. Bivens, R. (2017). The gender binary will not be deprogrammed: Ten years of coding gender on Facebook. New Media & Society, 19(6), 880-898. Prates, M. O., Avelar, P. H., & Lamb, L. (2018). Assessing gender bias in machine translation—a case study with Google Translate. arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.02208. Zou, J. & Schiebinger, L. (2018). Design AI so that it’s fair. Nature, 559(7714), 324-326. Nielsen, M. W., Andersen, J. P., Schiebinger, L., & Schneider, J. W. (2017). One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(11), 791. Joel, D. et al. (2018). Analysis of Human Brain Structure Reveals that the Brain “Types” Typical of Males Are Also Typical of Females, and Vice Versa. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | October 2018 | Volume 12 | Article 399.
08.02.	Exams.