Patti Lather
Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University
Cloud Gate: Becoming (Post)qualitative
About this keynote
Inspired by Chicago’s Cloud Gate, this talk considers what becomes possible in spaces of inbetweenness. Through affect theory and The Act of Killing, it explores post-qualitative inquiry as an undoing of dominant research practices. It asks what researchers must let go of, what remains, and how to remain accountable to complexity and uncertainty.
Patti Lather has taught qualitative research, feminist methodology, and gender and education at Ohio State. The author of Getting Smart and Getting Lost, she is an AERA Fellow and recipient of its Division B Lifetime Achievement Award.