http://www.egs.edu Karen Barad, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas-Fee, Switzerland. August 2, 2017. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought.
Karen Michelle Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There, she also co-directs the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, “that trains science and engineering students alongside social science and humanities students to identify and respond to moments where research requires attentiveness to questions of policy, ethics, and justice.”[1]
After receiving a PhD in theoretical particle physics from SUNY Stony Brook, Barad began her academic career at a physics department. Among her early publications are “A Quantum Epistemology And Its Impact On Our Understanding of Scientific Process”[2], “Quark-Antiquark Charge Distributions and Confinement”[3], and “Minimal Lattice Theory of Fermions”[4].
Traversing theoretical physics and feminist theory, her research interests are broad-ranging and include “[f]eminist science studies, materialisms, deconstruction, poststructuralism, critical posthumanism, decolonial studies, multispecies studies, science & justice, physics, continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, ethics, politics, philosophy of physics, feminist, queer, & trans theories”[5].
Barad’s work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In 2016, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in the Arts at Gothenburg University in 2016.
[1] https://cbse.soe.ucsc.edu/education/science_justice
[2] The Barnard Occasional Papers, vol. III, Nr.1/1988.
[3] Physics Letters B, vol. 143, Issue 1-3/1984, with M. Ogilvie and C. Rebbi, 222-226.
[4] Physical Review D, vol. 30, Issue 6, 1305/ 1984.
[5] http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?singleton=true&cruz_id=kbarad
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