BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news399@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250319T124105 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250424T181500 SUMMARY:Bridging the Divide: Reimagining Researchers and Research Practices through Feminist Ethics of Care and Institutional Responsibility DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT The creation of the "researcher persona" in academia o ften occurs through the creation of an artificial split between personal i dentity and professional role\, fostering a framework where positionality\ , personality\, and lived experiences are systematically excluded from sch olarly practice. This division\, rooted in neoliberal academic structures and perpetuated by the myth of the "in-control academic"\, undermines the potential for grounded and transformative engagement in research. It disre gards the emotional labor and vulnerabilities inherent in qualitative rese arch. The reality of conducting research often includes the potential for researchers to witness or experience violence\, as well as the emotional a nd ethical complexities that follow. These experiences are too often erase d or muted in academic discourse\, as their acknowledgment may be perceive d as a threat to institutional competitiveness. This erasure not only fail s to support researchers in processing trauma but also devalues the insigh ts and ethical imperatives that such experiences can bring to knowledge pr oduction. This presentation argues that risks and vulnerabilities must be responsibly acknowledged and integrated into research processes\, ensuring that researchers are supported rather than left to navigate these challen ges in isolation. Drawing on feminist ethics of care and failure\, this pr esentation proposes an alternative approach that centers relationality\, v ulnerability\, and the acknowledgment of researchers’ positionalities as integral to scholarly rigor. By challenging the competitive and market-dr iven logic that views unpredictability and emotional engagement as liabili ties\, it advocates for a holistic reimagining of research as an ethically entwined and reflexive practice. The discussion further addresses institu tional responsibilities in mitigating the risks researchers face\, recogni zing that the absence of robust support systems often exacerbates the emot ional toll and ethical challenges of this work. Strategies for fostering a culture of care and shared responsibility will be outlined\, emphasizing the need for institutions to create environments that prioritize researche r well-being\, offer trauma-informed resources\, and engage with the ethic al dimensions of research vulnerability. Ultimately\, this talk calls for dismantling the dichotomy of person and researcher\, advocating for an aca demic paradigm that embraces the complexity of human experience\, responsi bly addresses the realities of violence and trauma\, and values care as a cornerstone of research practice. By weaving these considerations into ins titutional structures\, we can foster a research culture that is both ethi cally grounded and genuinely humane.\\r\\n ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dr. Luisa T. Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije University Amsterdam. She completed her doctorate in anthropolo gy at the University of Oxford in 2019. She specializes in the anthropolog y of intimacy\, violence and law and has conducted ethnographic research i n Sierra Leone since 2011 and in Germany since 2018. Through combining emp irical research with conceptual synthesis\, Luisa Schneider studies how pe ople negotiate the space to live their most intimate needs on various leve ls of social and legal organisation. A particular interest lies in the fri ction between care and control\, between rights\, protections\, and their practical realisation that arise from the divide between private and publi c spheres\, both through the politico-legal separation between home/house and street\, and through conflicting discourses regarding which areas of l ife states may regulate and in what way. Through her interest in inventive contractualism and creative syncretism\, she examines what laws ‘do’ and how they interact with how people govern their lives in diverse contex ts.  \\r\\nREGISTRATION No registration is required for the public talk. For the Apéro demi riche\, please register by April 10 by e-mail to ggsb- genderstudies@unibas.ch (subject: Apéro\, Markthalle Salon). For further information\, you may also contact Anna K. Kraft via e-mail: annakerstin.k raft@unibas.ch. X-ALT-DESC:

ABSTRACT
The creation of the "research er persona" in academia often occurs through the creation of an artificial split between personal identity and professional role\, fostering a frame work where positionality\, personality\, and lived experiences are systema tically excluded from scholarly practice. This division\, rooted in neolib eral academic structures and perpetuated by the myth of the "in-control ac ademic"\, undermines the potential for grounded and transformative engagem ent in research. It disregards the emotional labor and vulnerabilities inh erent in qualitative research. The reality of conducting research often in cludes the potential for researchers to witness or experience violence\, a s well as the emotional and ethical complexities that follow. These experi ences are too often erased or muted in academic discourse\, as their ackno wledgment may be perceived as a threat to institutional competitiveness. T his erasure not only fails to support researchers in processing trauma but also devalues the insights and ethical imperatives that such experiences can bring to knowledge production. This presentation argues that risks and vulnerabilities must be responsibly acknowledged and integrated into rese arch processes\, ensuring that researchers are supported rather than left to navigate these challenges in isolation. Drawing on feminist ethics of c are and failure\, this presentation proposes an alternative approach that centers relationality\, vulnerability\, and the acknowledgment of research ers’ positionalities as integral to scholarly rigor. By challenging the competitive and market-driven logic that views unpredictability and emotio nal engagement as liabilities\, it advocates for a holistic reimagining of research as an ethically entwined and reflexive practice. The discussion further addresses institutional responsibilities in mitigating the risks r esearchers face\, recognizing that the absence of robust support systems o ften exacerbates the emotional toll and ethical challenges of this work. S trategies for fostering a culture of care and shared responsibility will b e outlined\, emphasizing the need for institutions to create environments that prioritize researcher well-being\, offer trauma-informed resources\, and engage with the ethical dimensions of research vulnerability. Ultimate ly\, this talk calls for dismantling the dichotomy of person and researche r\, advocating for an academic paradigm that embraces the complexity of hu man experience\, responsibly addresses the realities of violence
and trauma\, and values care as a cornerstone of research practice. By weavin g these considerations into institutional structures\, we can foster a res earch culture that is both ethically grounded and genuinely humane.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Luisa T. Schneider i s an Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije University Amsterdam. She completed her doctorate in anthropology at the U niversity of Oxford in
2019. She specializes in the anthropology of intimacy\, violence and law and has conducted ethnographic research in Sie rra Leone since 2011 and in Germany since 2018. Through combining empirica l research with conceptual synthesis\, Luisa Schneider studies how people negotiate the space to live their most intimate needs on various levels of social and legal organisation. A particular interest lies in the friction between care and control\, between rights\, protections\, and their pract ical realisation that arise from the divide between private and public sph eres\, both through the politico-legal separation between home/house and s treet\, and through conflicting discourses regarding which areas of life s tates may regulate and in what way. Through her interest in inventive cont ractualism and creative syncretism\, she examines what laws ‘do’ and h ow they interact with how people govern their lives in diverse contexts.  \;

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REGISTRATION
No registration i s required for the public talk. For the Apéro demi riche\, please registe r by April 10 by e-mail to ggsb-genderstudies@unibas.ch (subject: Apéro\, Markthalle Salon). For further
information\, you may also contact A nna K. Kraft via e-mail: annakerstin.kraft@unibas.ch.

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