Karen River Barad's new book, Energetics of the Otherwise: A Laboratory of the Possible, is forthcoming with Yale University Press. The book presents a unique understanding of the inseparability of the theological, political, and scientific aspects of worlding, while offering alternative ways of (re)configuring Kabbalah, materialism, and quantum physics in their intra-relationality. It puts forward a critical methodology that attends to entangled histories of the oppressed and the urgently required messianic work of ever ongoing reparation. 

Rebecca Schneider, a performance theorist, has been in conversation with Barad for some time. Their conversations on gesture, worlding, inseparability, interinanimation, emergency, and Black feminist thought -- have informed some of the book's errant currents.  Introducing the book, this public conversation will flow and pool in and around some possible thoughts Barad and Schneider have shared in the interstices of their (un)disciplines. 

Gender equality is both an aim and a means to contribute to healthy lives for all, both of which are key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In science, globally, women account for only about 30% of researchers, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and evidence shows that their participation is even lower at leadership and decision-making levels. Why is that, and what is being done to better support women’s careers in science? 

SUSTAINIT, WGH Norway, WiLD Norway and Circle U Oslo welcomes you to a seminar dedicated to the broad and deep experience, expertise, passion, and diversity that exists among women working in science in Norway and globally.