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Radical Adisciplinarity
29 May 2025, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
This event is part of the Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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UCL Anthropocene
About the seminar:
Ann Stoler (New School University) will speak about Radical Adisciplinarity in conversation with Andrew Barry.
About the seminar series:
Over twenty years ago, in the early 2000s, Georgina Born, Andrew Barry and Marilyn Strathern led an ESRC funded project that focused on new institutional collaborations between natural and social scientists and creative practitioners. In these collaborations, the work of social scientists and artists often served to supplement dominant naturals scientific or engineering paradigms, standing in for a wider engagement with society (Barry, Born and Weszkalnys 2008, Born and Barry 2010, Barry and Born 2013). In some collaborations, there was a more radical reconfiguration of the relation between different forms of practice. In this mini-series of events, we revisit the question of the relation between the disciplines at a different moment, and from different angles.
Today, the potential contribution of the social and historical sciences to what were once thought of predominantly scientific or technical domains (including climate change and environmental research, computer science and AI) is more established, although it remains uneven. However, there is also growing recognition that an engagement with the natural and computational sciences have become critical to the reconfiguration of the social sciences themselves, beyond the established field of Science and Technology Studies.
In this mini-series, we reflect on the question of interdisciplinarity and the social and historical sciences through a series of conversations with Ann Stoler (on radical adisciplinarity), Mariam Motamedi-Fraser (on Animal Studies), Nikolas Rose (on the exposome), John Haddon (on history), and Georgina Born (on AI, and interdisciplinarity more broadly).
This event will take place online via zoom with the link to join to be shared closer to the date.
About the Speaker
Ann Stoler
Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History at The New School for Social Research
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. Stoler is the director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She taught at the University of Michigan from 1989-2003 and has been at the New School for Social Research since 2004, where she was the founding chair of its revitalized Anthropology Department. She has worked for some thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. She has been a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études, the École Normale Supérieure and Paris 8, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, Birzeit University in Ramallah, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Irvine’s School of Arts and Literature, and the Bard Prison Initiative. She is the recipient of NEH, Guggenheim, NSF, SSRC, and Fulbright awards, among others.