Karen Barad: On Touching the Stranger Within – The Alterity that Therefore I Am

Remote talk at the ABOAGORA "Void" Symposium held in Turku, Finland, on 23–25 August 2023.

Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is a co-founder of the UCSC Science & Justice Research Center and the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program.

ABOAGORA is a symposium that brings together various aspects of academia, the arts, and society. The annual event consists of interdisciplinary discussions, performative sessions, and diverse artistic interventions, and offers a forum for researchers, artists, and the public to establish new dialogues and new forms of collaboration. Aboagora is a joint effort by the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences, Åbo Akademi University Foundation and Turku University Foundation.
https://aboagora.fi