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Titre | Queer and LGBTQ+ Methods Workshop |
Dates | 10 Decembre 2021 |
Responsable de l'activité | Sébastien CHAUVIN |
Organisateur(s)/trice(s) | Muriel Bruttin, UNIL Kwaku Adomako, UNIL |
Intervenant-e-s | Ilana Eloit, UNIL Alejandra Bello, UNIL |
Description | The aim of this workshop is to explore the potential of queer methods.
Mobilizing a queer theory framework in our research does not automatically mean that we use queer methods. Similarly, studying minority gender identities and sexual orientations, or studying LGBTQ+ topics, also may not automatically mean we use queer methods, nor a queer approach. Following from this, we want to consider what methods could be most appropriate for doing research on LGBTQ+ topics and/or queer research.
If our queer theoretical framework understands that subjects and subjectivities are fluid, locally specific, contingent, relational, unstable, and perpetually becoming, how does this affect our choice of methods? How can we "gather data" on such unstable entities, when most standard research methods (such as interviews and questionnaires) tend to rely on bounded, clear cut categories? How might we adjust our current research methods to make them work more 'queerly'? And what do we then do with this messy data once we have gathered it?
This workshop does not aim to give clear-cut answers to all these questions (that would be rather non-queer). Instead, we hope to explore these questions together, and in particular, consider how they relate to our own PhD work (or other research endeavors). We hope to create a space where we can explore the connections (and sometimes disconnections) between the theoretical frameworks we use, the topics of our research, and the methodologies we mobilize. These framworks might be queer (or not), the topics LGBTQ+ (or not), and the methodolgies queer (or not).
Target audience This workshop is for anyone interested in discussing the questions mentionned above. Whether or not you mobilize queer methods in your research, if you are interested in discussing queer methods or the implications of queering methodologies, and/or are studying LGBTQ+ subjects or subject material, you are invited to participate in this workshop. In addition, even though this workshop will focus on methods for social scientific research and is therefore more geared towards social scientists, researchers in the humanities and hard sciences are also welcome. Since queering is about the blurring of boundaries, we are happy to also blur the boundaries of (heteropatriarchal) academic disciplines. If, for example, you do queer biology, queer art history, queer literature, queer nanotech, we would love to have you at our workshop.
COVID-19 related issues: we are currently planning to hold this workshop in an in-person format, but if necessary, we will move the workshop either to co-modal or fully online. |
Programme | Programme
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Lieu |
UNIL (or online, will depend on sanitary restrictions) |
Information | Travaux préparatoires pour l'atelier Lectures préparatoires Rendu écrit
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Places | 16 |
Délai d'inscription | 30.11.2021 |