Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
Talking about research on work with sperm at laboratories is almost always limited to representations of sperm and its mattering as captured in fieldwork journals, photos, drawings, interview transcripts or videos. Capturing mattering in this way is of course very limited and already an abstraction of what I want to convey. At the same time modes of academic presentation are limited to/by/through boundary making configurations of academic life. What to do with mattering that involves taboos? How to deal with the desire of mattering? Or with disgust? What to do with mattering filled with pleasure? How can I approach this kind of mattering and convey it to a public? What limits does academia set for engaging a larger public with mattering?
Period
8 Mar 2013
Event title
It’s Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities