Hormonal Futurity:

Critical Methodological Engagements On and Beyond the Endocrine

November 12th, 2026
9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Wellington Aotearoa New Zealand

This workshop is an opportunity for day-long korero/conversation amongst scholars that actively think about/think with hormones (both endogenous and exogenous). Designed as an interdisciplinary workshop and qualitative data coding event exploring how hormones shape, disrupt, and reimagine bodies, temporalities, and futures – it is a chance to also bring scholars together in Wellington.

We are going to use Timmermans and Tavory’s ‘open coding’ workshop as a way to collaboratively explore themes in qualitative hormonal research across three projects with new/raw/unpublished data. This exercise is a political project with pedagogical motivations – and hopefully inspires others to uptake these learnings in their other institutional and community settings to encourage collaborative work. Through collaborative data coding sessions, discussions, and readings, we will examine how hormonal imaginaries inform lived experience and political possibility, while also probing what lies beyond endocrine frameworks.

We request minor preparation for the day. This includes reading the following:

Required Reading 1: Roy, Deboleena. 2018. “Microphysiologies of Desire” in Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. 57-89. University of Washington Press

Required Reading 2: Coleman, Rebecca, and Kat Jungnickel. 2023. “Introduction to Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times.” Australian Feminist Studies 38(115–116):1–13. doi:10.1080/08164649.2024.2373931
Note: You can read the other articles in this special issue, if so inspired.

Recommended Reading:
Timmermans, Stefan, and Iddo Tavory. 2022. “Open Coding” in Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Theorizing with Abductive Analysis. 69 – 90. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Note: This version of the book please https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo133273407.html

Schedule for the Day:
9:00 – 9:30: Morning Welcome/Introductions
9:30 – 10:30: Review/Reflect on their panels/Discussions from conference
10:30 – Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:00: Discussion of the two required readings
12:00 – 1:00: Open Coding I (Nayan’s data – Chaired by Celia Roberts)
1:00 – 2:00: Lunch and Walk
2:00 – 3:00: Open Coding II (TBC’s data– Chaired by Helen Keane)
3:00 – 3:30: Arvo tea
3:30 – 4:30: Open Coding III (Celia’s data – Chaired by Mary Lou Rasmusen)
4:30: Closing and What Next (with drinks)