Working Group 5
Gender and new technologies: teaching the body, health, ICT and visual culture
This workshop had 17 participants and was co-chaired by Edyta Just, Magdalena Górska, Marek Wojtaszek and Aino-Maija Hiltunen.
It dealt originally with 3 topic areas, inherited from Athena, which were under umbrella "Connecting with other disciplines, transformation and integration".
These 3 themes are "New Media and Gender Studies Education", "Teaching New technologies and gendered bodies" and "Teaching Gender Studies in the Field of Health, Medicine, Life Sciences and Sexuality studies".
Group was discussing vividly and worked partly with so-called "learning cafe"-group-discussion method. People from this working group will propose at least 2 panels for Budapest-conference, in strands
"Teaching 'Gender' across the Borders of the Human, Social, Natural and Biomedical Sciences" (3) and "Creativity Reconsidered: Rethinking Feminist Art, Media and Technological Practices" (13). Redi Koobak is taking responsibility for panel to strand 3 and Edyta Just and Marek Wojtaszek for 13. Group will also start working towards a joint glossary, probably a wiki, and linked to AtGender-site on concepts of gender and technology. This could be used for both teaching and research. Magda Gorska is taking care of this.
Workshop was succesful and agreed that permanent working group with these themes in AtGender will be good. It can divide partly into smaller theme-groups and start thinking possible new partners and ways of funding.
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