Gendered Configurations of Humans and Machines

In numerous fields of science, work, and everyday life, humans and machines have been increasingly entangled, developing an ever-growing toolbox of interactions. These entanglements affect our daily lives and pose possibilities as well as restrictions, chances as well as challenges. The contributions of this volume tackle related issues by adopting a highly interdisciplinary perspective. How do digitalization and artificial intelligence affect gender relations? How can intersectionality be newly understood in an increasingly internationally networked world? This volume is a collection of contributions deriving from the “Interdisciplinary Conference on the Relations of Humans, Machines and Gender” which took place in Braunschweig (October 16–19, 2019). It also includes the keynotes given by Cecile Crutzen, Galit Wellner and Helen Verran.

Jan Büssers is a research assistant at the Department of the History of Science and Pharmacy at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany Anja Faulhaber is a research assistant at the Human-Machine-Systems Engineering Group at the University of Kassel, Germany Myriam Raboldt is a research assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women‘s and Gender Studies at the TU Berlin, Germany Rebecca Wiesner is a research assistant at the Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany