{"id":965,"date":"2017-06-14T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/?p=965"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:44:33","slug":"two-events-with-banu-subramaniam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/two-events-with-banu-subramaniam\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Events with Banu Subramaniam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banu Subramaniam (Prof. of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of\u00a0 Massachusetts, Amherst) will be our guest for next week.<\/p>\n

Writing NatureCultures – Workshop with Banu Subramaniam<\/h2>\n

Monday, 19.6.17 | 12 (s.t.!)-13:45 <\/strong>| <\/strong>SFG 2210<\/strong><\/p>\n

Against the background of our previous discussions of NatureCultures as heuristic tool or of case studies tackling naturecultures emprically and analytically, this little workshop puts the emphasis on writing naturecultures. For approximating how we can and do write (make visible) naturecultures, we are very happy that Banu Subramaniam will join and share her experiences with writing and mixing genres in „Ghost Stories for Darwin. The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“ (2014, Ludwik Fleck Prize 2016) with us. Taking her book as a starting point we would like to discuss questions like the following:\u00a0 What are good formats and genres of describing, narrating, storying, assembling, writing the commingling of nature(s) and culture(s)? What consequenses does an \u201eopening up of epistemic authority\u201c have for writing naturecultures? How does \u201ewriting naturecultures\u201c differ from \u201ewriting cultures\u201c? How is the idea of \u201ebeing haunted\u201c transforming the author\u2019s position \/ voice.<\/p>\n

If you have not yet had the chance to read\/look into the book please check out at least the attached introduction for preparation.If you are interested in reading further but do not have access to the book, write an email to amelang@uni-bremen.de<\/a> and we will provide you with the files.<\/p>\n

\nCounter-Narratives of the Enlightenment: Tales from the edges of Science and Religion in India – Talk in the World-of-Contradiction lecture series<\/h2>\n

Wed, 21.6.17 | 18-20h | Rotunde (Cartesium)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Banu Subramaniam explores the worlds of science and religion in contemporary India. In contrast to other religious fundamentalisms, Hindu nationalism embraces science as an important and critical part of religion. Religious nationalists in contemporary India have selectively, and strategically, used rhetoric from both science and Hinduism, modernity and orthodoxy, western and eastern thought to build a powerful but potentially dangerous vision of a Hindu nation. With aspirations for a global and modern Hinduism, she argues that scientific and religious practices in contemporary India are inextricably interconnected and result in fluid processes and practices of both institutions. In her presentation, she explores how mythological narratives, preternatural tales, and ghostly apparitions mingle effortlessly with animist traditions as well as the material, experimental, and institutional practices of technosciences. This emerging \u201csyncretic pragmatism\u201d challenges us to move beyond the oppositional stances of science and religion, to consider counter narratives to the enlightenment tales of reason and unreason. Ultimately to understand contemporary technoscience in India, we need new epistemological and methodological tools, and story making practices to make visible the many phantasmogoric naturecultural worlds within.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banu Subramaniam (Prof. of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of\u00a0 Massachusetts, Amherst) will be our guest for next week. Writing NatureCultures – Workshop with Banu Subramaniam Monday, 19.6.17 | 12 (s.t.!)-13:45 | SFG 2210 Against the background of our previous discussions of NatureCultures as heuristic tool or of case studies tackling naturecultures emprically […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-55","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naturenkulturen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}