[PHILOS-L] [QVLS RISE event] Online talk by Marilù Chiofalo on "Subjectivity and In/Discipline in Science: A Gender Perspective" this Friday, 13.03. 4pm CET

[Veljko Simovic]

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Dear students, researchers, and members of the scientific community,

We are delighted to announce the next online event of our initiative QVLS RISE, featuring a virtual talk by renowned theoretical physicist and member of the Women for Quantum Marilù Chiofalo, this Friday, 13.03.2026 at 16:00 CET on ‘Subjectivity and In/Discipline in Science: A Gender Perspective’. 

We warmly invite you to join us for her virtual live talk (45min) and the following interactive Q&A session this Friday, via the following WebEx link:

https://uni-hannover.webex.com/uni-hannover/j.php?MTID=mf0337c51d8f05d327d6798b5a79214fb

Abstract:

Science is objective in the results that are obtained within the perimeter of scientific thinking and related methods. In an oxymoron, science is also subjective in the trajectories of the scientists who obtain those results, everyone in their way. While subjectivity characterizes everyone, for women scientists it seems to hardly find a visible, comfortable, truly-free space where to be authentically represented: this is witnessed by careers either disappearing in the leaky pipeline or appearing as unconventional scientific trajectories. Shared by any other working or social context, this is a preeminent condition in scientific and highly technological environments. In fact, in the last 30 years the limited number of women in science has been recognized and addressed as a crucial problem, to be overturned via equity-diversity-inclusion policies, though with incremental results. In this talk, I will elaborate on questions that emerge from these reflections. Why has progress been so far incremental? Is subjectivity in science related to evaluation? Are unconventional careers related to a form of in/discipline? Which effective actions all this suggests, for a concrete transformation? I will engage a conversation on these questions by resorting to gender-studies frameworks and by roller-coasting illuminating non-conventional, curved, trajectories of women scientists. Valuing subjective trajectories and objective results, can this make science environments comfortable for women and accelerate science? 

Speaker’s biography:

Marilù Chiofalo is condensed-matter professor at the Pisa University, teaching elementary physics for life-sciences and physics, advanced quantum liquids and quantum biology, and the physics of everyday life for teachers’ training. Her way is interdisciplinary, on quantum metrology and simulators for condensed-matter and fundamental physics, biology and neurosciences, and on physics education research. She authors radio and video formats, in magazines about science and society, and engages general public combining the synthetic languages of arts and science. Omnivorous reader and videogame player (for next frame advancement), she learned from volleyball to score in three touches (one being her, as setter) and from soccer with overhead kicks, from bicycle to crash when necessary. She plays tenor sax in UNIPI Orchestra, Filarmonica, and Clown doctors band. Deputy mayor of the Pisa municipality contributing to National policies planning (2008-2018), she is part of Labodif and  of Women4Quantum.

We look forward to welcoming you on Friday!

Kind regards,

Ashkan Alibabaei and Gina Kleinsteinberg

On behalf of QVLS RISE – Researchers for Inclusion, Support and Exchange

Quantum Valley Lower Saxony (QVLS) e. V.

Callinstraße 36 · 30167 Hannover · Germany

1. Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Ospelkaus, Amtsgericht Hannover – VR 203421

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Veljko Simovic 

PhD Candidate

Department of Philosophy  

Western University & Rotman Institute of Philosophy  

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