Physics & Art Mondays: Telling Stories, Making Worlds

What gets to count as nature? For whom, and when? The documentary 'Storytelling for Earthly Survival' (2016) by filmmaker and activist Fabrizio Terranova is a cinematic portrait of scholar and feminist thinker Donna Haraway, whose groundbreaking work envisions more-than-human futures, collective survival, and ethical coexistence within the entangled worlds of nature, culture, and technoscience.

With particular reference to Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), the subsequent panel discussion between Ruth Müller and Florian Dirnberger will focus on how one can develop methodologies to critically engage with science through sustainable and holistic thinking. The event is a collaboration with the seminar ‘Physics as Practice: Science and Society in the Making of Knowledge’ of the Department of Science, Technology and Society (TUM).

The get-together with drinks and snacks begins at 6:30 p.m. The film screening and discussion will take place from 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

With Ruth Müller (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, TUM Munich Center for Technology in Society) and Florian Dirnberger (Research group leader at the Center for Quantum Engineering in the Physics Department, TUM School of Natural Sciences)

• A lecture and discussion series as part of the collaboration between the Technical University of Munich, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and Haus der Kunst München on Astrophysics and Art.
• The talks will be held in English.