Libori Summer School 2026: 29.07 Keynote Session of Prof. Karpenko in the Session "Women and Ecofeminism"

Abstract:

Studying artificial intelligence (AI) through an ecofeminist methodology opens up new perspectives on it as an ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a tool for human survival in nature, and on the other, it poses threats to the existence of both humans and nature. The presence of this contradiction calls into question the narrative that technology is an abstract, neutral, or purely useful force. Data ecofeminism, a separate subfield of this intersection, illuminates the material realities of AI. AI as a “colonization of data” exacerbates ecological degradation and deepens social, gender, and racial inequalities.

About the Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko is Head of Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. Kateryna Karpenko defended her dissertation “The Gender dimension of the ecological communication” in 2006 at Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University. She is a Doctor of Philosophy Science (2007), Professor (2008). She is a Head of the Department of Philosophy (2018), Director of the Centre for Gender Education (2012). She has published more than 200 works: monograph “Nature and Woman: Ecofeminist Perspectives in Ukraine” (2006, in Ukrainian). She took part in more than 100 International conferences in Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, USA, China, Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Macedonia. The latest were the XV International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) Symposium ‘Philosophy, Knowledge and Feminist Practices’ (2014, Alcala, Spain), 24-th World Philosophy Congress (2018, Beijing, China), XVII International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) Symposium ‘Women and Philosophy in the era of globalization’ (2018), 10th Biennial conference of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) ‘Boundaries in/of Environmental’, Tallinn, Estonia (2019), XVIII International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) Symposium ‘Defining the Future, Rethinking the Past’ (Paderborn, Germany, 2021).

She initiated and coordinated the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Gender. Ecology. Health” (2007, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021).

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