Historicizing Intelligence is related to other projects through researchers and joint interests in research topics.
Residency 23 - Understanding intelligence: Across human and other-than-human worlds
This residency brought together eight participants from Norway and abroad to explore concepts and constructs of intelligence across human and other-than-human worlds.
Together they asked how constructs of intelligence are measured, used and abused, and how changing understandings of human and more-than-human worlds might require radical redefinitions. Through creative engagement with concepts of human and other-than-human intelligence, intelligence testing and the resources of existing research projects, the residency aimed to stimulate new understandings of intelligence through dialogue and creative activity. The residents explored questions of control, freedom and access, and how lines are drawn between the pathological and the normal, nature and culture, and human and animal.
The residency was run by PRAKSIS and was developed by Ageliki Lefkaditou in connection with the research project "Historicizing Intelligence", and by Sophia Efstathiou, who is leading the research project "MEATigation".
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Sasha is an artist and researcher who investigates the material and aesthetic elements of historical English-language Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Scales. She took part in Residency 23 and has been a visiting researcher at Historicizing Intelligence.
DIMENSIONS
DIMENSIONS is a five-year project at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. DIMENSIONS studies criminal insanity and how this legal doctrine is related to mental illnesses, particularly psychosis. The project is lead by Professor Linda Gröning who also takes part in Historicizing Intelligence's work package 3.
Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences
The Max Planck research group "Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences" studies historically how validity has been practiced and how uncertainty has been assessed, regulated, and argued about in various strains of biomedical research. This question is highly relevant to the Historicizing Intelligence project: How do you assesses to what extent an IQ-test measures what it is supposed to measure? This is a question of validity.
In June 2022 the Max Planck Research group leader Lara Keuck visited our project group and held the lecture "Validity in the biomedical sciences: a relational epistemology" at the University of Oslo's Science Studies Colloquium.
In December 2022 Jon Kyllingstad held an online lecture for the Max Planck group: “Adaptation and Norming of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in Norway: 1970s to the Present".