Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Food
2nd Vienna Workshop on STEM Museums, Gender and Sexuality
Keywords: Food, Exhibiting Food, Queer(y)ing Food Collections, Gender and Sexuality, Science and Technology, Material Culture
When: 5th and 6th of May 2022
Where: Technisches Museum Wien
The Call for Papers is now closed! Registration is open via gender@tmw.at. Please find the programme and more information here: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Food
Food and Gender are the focus of the 2nd Vienna Workshop on STEM Museums, Gender and Sexuality. As a part of the museum’s “Focus Gender” and on the occasion of a special exhibition on food at the TMW (opening 11/2021), this workshop will critically address constructions of gendered and/or heteronormative technology and science and emphasise the role of the object and material culture in queer and feminist approaches to science and technology studies with a focus on food.
Which challenges and potentials arise from gender-informed engagement with food and nutrition? How can museums understand, collect and exhibit food as a multifaceted gendered phenomenon? What does the material culture of food look like?
Submissions can address, for example:
- Food, gender and/or sexuality in (technical and natural science) collections and exhibitions
- histories of food and gender and/or sexualities
- Intersectional perspectives on food with regard to gender and/or sexuality as well as ethnicity, religion, disability, race
- Questions of documentation, indexing and categorisation
- Working groups, publics, and involving ‘outside’ expertise in science museums and collections We are looking for diverse responses from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We encourage contributions from early career scholars, practitioners, and museum professionals.
Please submit abstracts of 150 words for 15-minute paper, workshops or creative provocations and a biography of no more than 100 words to by 15 July. Decisions will be made by the workshop leaders Dr Sophie Gerber (Technisches Museum, Vienna) and Sophie Kühnlenz (scholar in residence, Cologne/Vienna) by mid-September.
We can confirm that the workshop will have the following access provisions: Wheelchair accessible, Lift access, non-gendered bathrooms for the day, pronoun badges, guide animals, room for breastfeeding/expressing milk, quiet room (prayer and/or sensory breaks). No capability for hearing loops.
We will also have an anti-discrimination and harassment policy that all participants will be required to sign, and which will be enforced throughout the workshop. Our priority is to make the workshop as accessible as possible. If you have any queries, or if there are other confirmations needed, please contact the organisers on .
Participation is free and we are willing to support participants with possible grant applications. The workshop language is English.
We are planning an (electronic) publication of the contributions in German and English. If the overall pandemic situation does not permit a face-to-face event, contributors will be informed about the change to a fully online format. We understand submitted contributions as binding offers for the two possible formats of an online or a face-to-face event.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!