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JOSEF BARLA
CURRICULUM VITAE
+43-(0)650-910-6325 | [email protected] | https://univie.academia.edu/JosefBarla
E DUCATION
PhD in Philosophy, University of Vienna (expected October 2015)
MA in Sociology, University of Vienna
BA
in Sociology, University of Vienna
A REAS OF S PECIALIZATION
A REAS OF C OMPETENCE
History and Philosophy of Technology
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Philosophies of Embodiment
Sociology of the Body
Feminist Epistemologies
Critical Race Studies
A CADEMIC E XPERIENCE
10/2015 – 02/2016
Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology
and Society (IAS-STS) Graz, Austria
08/2015 – 09/2015
Visiting Researcher at the Posthumanities Hub and at the GEXcel International
Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University,
Sweden
09/2013 – 02/2014
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
03/2013
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
10/2012 – 03/2013
Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology, and the Science and
Justice Research Center, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
03/2010 – 02/2013
Research Fellow in the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Gender, Violence
and Agency in the Era of Globalization” at the Department of Political Science,
University of Vienna, Austria
T EACHING E XPERIENCE
Winter Term
Lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of
2015/16
Vienna; course to be taught “Chaosmosen des Politischen: Barad, Deleuze,
Foucault und neue Medientheorien” (together with Christoph Hubatschke).
Winter Term
Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna; course to
2015/16
be taught “Utopie und Politik: Zur Theoriegeschichte eines kontroversen
Konzepts” (together with Katharina Maly).
Winter Term
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna; taught the course
2013/14
“‘Technik
ist
stabilisierte
Gesellschaft’:
Einführung
in
Bruno
Latours
Techniksoziologie”.
Summer Term
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna; taught the course
1
2013
“Introduction into Feminist Materialist Theories on Science, Technology, and the
Body”.
Summer Term
Adjunct Instructor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna;
2011
taught the interdisciplinary lecture series “Gewalt und Handlungsmacht:
Feministische Perspektiven”, together with Eva Kreisky and others.
P UBLICATIONS
Edited books
Gewalt und Handlungsmacht: Queer_Feministische Perspektiven, Frankfurt/M.
and New York: Campus, 2012.
Book
“Technologies of failure, bodies of resistance: science, technology, and the
chapters
mechanics of materializing marked bodies,” in: Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (Ed.):
Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism, New York: New York University
Press, (in press).
“‘Ihr wortlos Lied, vielstimmig, scheinbar eins’: Eie Frage nach dem Politischen in
Bruno Latours Technikphilosophie,” in: Singer, Mona (Ed.): Technik und Politik.
Von Benjamin und Deleuze bis Latour und Haraway, Wien: Löcker, 2015, pp. 88–
115.
“Apparate körperlicher Produktion und die Materialität der Figuration,” in: Goll,
Tobias/Keil, Daniel/Helios, Thomas (Eds.): Critical Matter: Diskussionen eines
neuen Materialismus, Münster: edition assemblage, 2014, pp. 148–164.
“Flucht und Migration als Kritik?” in: Gender Initiativkolleg Wien (Eds.): Gewalt
und Handlungsmacht: Queer_Feministische Perspektiven, Frankfurt/M. and New
York: Campus, 2012, pp. 196–203.
“Kapitalistische Quasi-Objekte. Zu einer Latourschen Lesart Marx‘ Ausführungen
zur Maschine,” in: Dunshirn, Alfred/Nemeth, Elisabeth/Unterthurner, Gerhard
(Eds.): Crossing Borders: | Thinking (across) Boundaries, Wien: Œsterreichische
Gesellschaft für Philosophie, 2012, pp. 361–370, (co-authored with Fabian
Steinschaden), available at: <http://phaidra. univie.ac.at/o:128384>.
Translations
“Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality,” by
Karen Barad, transl. with Katharina Maly, in: Gender & Medien-Reader, ed. by
Kathrin Peters & Andrea Seier, Zürich: diaphanes (forthcoming 2015).
“Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order”, by Donna Haraway,
transl. with Katharina Maly, in: Gender & Medien-Reader, ed. by Kathrin Peters &
Andrea Seier, Zürich: diaphanes (forthcoming 2015).
Reviews
“Colebrook, Claire: Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1,” Das
Argument 312: Literatur und geschichtliche Erfahrung, 2015, pp. 260–261.
“Braidotti, Rosi: Posthumanismus,” Das Argument 309: Kritisch-literarische
2
Praxis, 2014, pp. 575–577.
“Balke, Friedrich/Muhle, Maria/von Schöning, Andrea (Hg.): Die Wiederkehr der
Dinge,” Das Argument 304: Marxismus und Philosophie, 2013, pp. 755–757.
“Barad, Karen: Agentieller Realismus” (J. Schröder, Trans.), Das Argument 301:
Neugründung Europas als passive Revolution, 2013, pp. 269–270.
T ALKS
2015
“Posthumanist Performativity: Technicity, Materiality, and Agency”, invited public
lecture to be given at Wunder der Prärie: International Festival for Performance-Art
& Networking, Mannheim, Germany, September 23–26, 2015.
“Technologies of failure, bodies of resistance: Diffracting technoscientific
practices of materializing marked bodies,” paper to be presented at the Neil
Postman Graduate Conference: new feminisms / new materialisms / new media,
New York University, USA, March 12, 2015 (conference cancelled due to strike
of the Union of Graduate Employees at New York University; paper available at
https://univie.academia.edu/JosefBarla/).
“Techno-Becomings: Speculative Fabulations about Technology, Bodies and
Agency,” invited public lecture given at the performative installation imagetanz
2015. “training”: Spielstätten eines inklusiven Humanismus, Künstlerhaus Vienna,
March 6, 2015.
2014
“Agential Realism and Posthumanist Performativity,” invited talk given in the
seminar Zirkulation des Politischen: New Materialism zur Einführung (Prof. Andrea
Seier), Universität Wien, Vienna, December 2, 2014.
“Diffracting race: science, technology, and the mechanics of materializing
marked bodies,” paper presented at the 5th New Materialism Conference,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, September 25–26, 2014.
2013
“Rethinking agency and power with/in technology-body entanglements: towards
a philosophy of apparatuses of bodily production,” paper presented at Feminism,
Science & Materialism Conference, Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, February 14–
15, 2013.
2012
“Rethinking agency and power with/in technology-body assemblages,” paper
presented
at
Violence
and
Agency:
Controversies
and
Confrontations
Conference, University of Vienna, Austria, December 6–7, 2012.
“New materialism, technology, and the body: theorizing technology and material
bodies from an agential realist perspective,” paper presented at Critical Matter:
3rd International Graduate Conference, Goethe University Frankfurt/M, Germany,
May 31 – June 2, 2012.
“Changing
topologies,
shifting
relations.
Toward
a
post-constructionist
3
philosophy of technology-body entanglements,” paper presented at Gender,
Bodies and Technology: (Dis)Integrating Frames Conference, Virginia Tech,
Roanoke Virginia, USA, April 26–28, 2012.
2011
“Mensch-Maschine-Verschränkungen und kapitalistische Quasi-Objekte. Zu einer
Latourschen Lesart Marx’ Ausführungen zur Maschine,” paper presented at 9th
Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy: »Crossing Borders: Grenzen
(über)denken«, University of Vienna, June 2–4, 2011, (together with Fabian
Steinschaden).
G RANTS & H ONORS
08/2015 – 09/2015
STSM Grant from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
03/2013 – 06/2013
Research Award scholarship (Forschungsstipendium) from the University of
Vienna
11/2012 – 01/2013
Short-term grant abroad (KWA) from the University of Vienna
2012
Dissemination Grant 2012 from the University of Vienna
2006/2007
Scholarship for academic excellence (Leistungsstipendium) from the University of
Vienna and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
A CADEMIC M EMBERSHIPS AND R EFEREE A CTIVITIES
Member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action IS1307 “New Materialism:
Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter’”, working group two New
Materialism on the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences, since 2014
Referee for Sociology of Health and Illness, since 2013
Member of ATGENDER – The European Association for Gender Research, Education and
Documentation, since 2012
Member of EASST – The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, since 2011
O THER A CADEMIC A CTIVITIES A ND P UBLIC O UTREACH
2015
Invited public lecture, performative act, and round table discussion on Mensch Maschine – the extended bogy at “Wunder der Prärie: International Festival for
Performance-Art & Networking”, Mannheim, Germany, September 23–26, 2015.
Invited scientific expert participant at the performative installation “imagetanz
2015. ‘training’: Spielstätten eines inklusiven Humanismus”, Künstlerhaus
Vienna, March 5–8, 2015.
2012
Member of the committee of the international Graduate Conference “Violence
and Agency: Controversies and Confrontations”, University of Vienna, December
6−7, 2012.
Organization
and
moderation
of
“Posthumanist
Challenges
for
New
4
Materialisms”, talk given by Stacy Alaimo (University of Texas at Arlington, USA),
University of Vienna, May 29, 2012
Conceptualization of “Agential Realism in Feminist Science Studies”, talk and
workshop with Karen Barad (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), University
of Vienna, April 18–19, 2012
2010/2011
Conceptualization
and
realization
of
the
lecture
series
“Gewalt
und
Handlungsmacht: Feministische Perspektiven”, Department of Political Science,
University of Vienna, from July 2010 to June 2011, for the summer term 2011.
S KILLS
Languages:
Fluent in English; native speaker of German; basic skills in Hungarian and French
Computer skills:
Strong computer hard- and software skills; proficient with MS Office, Prezi,
SPSS, and EndNote
Interests:
Literature; museums and libraries; Japanese cuisine; playing the Theremin
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