RUSTlab Lectures

This winter term 2024/25 we present to you our 12th round of RUSTlab Lectures. Come and join us for these exciting talks and discussions around this term’s guiding theme Fabrication on four dates in the winter term – online and on site. The lectures take place 14-16 hrs German time.

While this summer’s series revolved around the theme of Replacement, this coming winter we want to talk about Fabrication – that is, processes of making in, with and of this world.

We’re not so much interested in exposing what’s fake about it, but rather curiously tracing multiple modes of fabrication out there. The material assembly of structures is as relevant to us as the semantic processes of fabulation.

The talks will therefore look at the fabrication of facts and artefacts from more than one angle. We’ll discuss feminist modes of fabricating knowledge through the infrastructures of Wikipedia and examine how these are political and contested. We’ll hear how researchers in the humanities fabricate spirited knowledge in material data practices. We’ll ask who cares about data in organisational practices. And finally, we’ll learn what might be good enough when it comes to making software products.

List of the speakers for the winter term 2024/25:

16.10.2024, 14-16 hrs Hannah Schmedes (Ruhr University Bochum): Reweaving Knowledge: Feminist Interventions and Infrastructural Biases in Wikipedia

14.11.2024, 14-16 hrs Fabian Pittroff (Ruhr University Bochum): Data Spirits: On the Fabrication of Geist in the Humanities

23.01.2025, 14-16 hrs Stefanie Büchner (Leibniz University Hannover): Who cares about data? Data Care Arrangements as Accomplishments in Everyday Organisational Practice

30.01.2025, 14-16 hrs Paula Bialski (University of St. Gallen): Good Enoughing at Middle Tech: An Ethnography of Corporate Software Culture

Download this PDF with a detailed description of our winter 2024/25 guiding theme.

Lectures Ws2425 Poster Digital Small — Lecture poster winter 2024/25

All lectures will be on-site at the RUSTlab as well as live on ZOOM.

Address: MB 4/165 Campus Ruhr University Bochum
Zoom Link for the meetings
Password: RUSTlab