Call for Papers: Theoretische Polarisierungen zwischen Humanismen und Post-/Trans-Humanismen Veranstaltung der Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports auf dem 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 26.-30.9.2022, Bielefeld Organisation: Hanna Göbel (Hamburg), Melike Şahinol (Istanbul) Körper gelten im soziologischen Denken seit jeher immer auch als Orte theoretischer Polarisierungen. Dieser Befund lässt sich etwa rekonstruieren […]
Category: DisAbility
Panel on Perform_Factur_ing /Healthy/ Wo_Man: Iran, Turkey and Beyond
Very happy to share with you our program and abstracts of our closed panel “Perform_Factur_ing /Healthy/ Wo_Man: Iran, Turkey and Beyond” that will be held as part of our internal IRSSC closing conference. The panel aims to bring together scholars working on masculinities, health and related issues in geographically, culturally, and academically diverse environments in […]
New Publication: Living in the Age of Neuro-Digitalization. Brain-Computer Interfaces for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
I am happy to share with you my latest publication: Şahinol, M. (2021). Living in the Age of Neuro-Digitalization. Brain-Computer Interfaces for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 8 (Being Human in a Technological Age), 53-80. doi:10.1628/ptsc-2021-0005 Abstract This paper examines the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and new types of […]
Bilim, Sanat ve İletişim: Kesişimlerde Buluşmak (Yuvarlak masa toplantısı, 21 Ocak 22, saat 17:35, Institut français Türkiye, Istanbul)
Yuvarlak masa toplantısı Bilim, Sanat ve İletişim: Kesişimlerde Buluşmak Yuvarlak masa toplantısı katılımcıları Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu (ODTÜ, Bilim ve Teknoloji Politikaları)Yücel Günal (Grafik Tasarımcı)Eser Epözdemir (Sanatçı / kültürel üretici)Merve Şahinol (Sanatçı, Düsseldorf) Moderatör: Melike Şahinol Bilim insanları dünyayı tanımlamaya ve açıklamaya çabaladıkları her alanda, sanatçılar da öznel bakış açılarıyla dünyayı yeniden yaratmak, sorgulamak ve hatta […]
“Crip Making” keynote by Aimi Hamraie, 16 September 2021, 7–8:30pm (CEST)
Download Flyer Abstract Is design informed by the lived experiences of disability inherently political? Several concepts exist within critical disability studies to name disability-led design. These include crip technoscience (Hamraie 2017; Hamraie and Fritsch 2019), “microactivist affordances” (Dokumaci 2020), “Criptastic hacking” (Yergeau 2014), and the “design theory of disability” (Guffey and Williamson). These approaches center […]
Keynote: Anne Waldschmidt “Inclusion – Accessibility – Normality: Some Remarks from a Dispositif-Analytical Perspective” 17 September 2021, 3:30-5pm (CEST)
Download Flyer Abstract It is Critical Disability Studies as an innovative discourse, which has significantly contributed to revising simplistic and individualistic views of disability and impairment. Introduced in the 1970s, the social model of disability has since fundamentally changed the international disability discourse. This approach, as Disability Studies scholars and disability rights activists know well, […]
Access and Tinkering: Designing Assistive Technologies as Political Practice
with an Interactive Maker Session 3rd meeting of the DFG Research Network Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media I am pleased to share our workshop/ symposium program with you, that I am co-organizing with Tom Bieling (Hamburg), Anna-Lena Wiechern (Lüneburg) and Robert Stock (Berlin). Workshop By drawing on STS, Crip Technoscience (Hamraie/Fritsch 2019) and approaches from participatory design research […]
new publication: “Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times”
My colleague Gülşah Başkavak and I are very proud to announce that our article submitted in October 2020 titled “Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times” has been published in the Special Issue of the Childhood Vunerability Journal. We are immensely proud and thank the Editors-in-Chief Sabine Andresen, Gill […]
new publ/ yeni yayın: Sosyo-Biyo-Teknik Bakım Kompleksi: Tip 1 Diyabette Dijital Sağlık Takibi / Socio-Bio-Technical Care Complex: Digital Health Tracking in Type 1 Diabetes (Şahinol, M. and Başkavak, G.)
Our peer reviewed article “Socio-Bio-Technical Care Complex: Digital Health Tracking in Type 1 Diabetes” has been published in the Journal for Sociological Research’s special issue on „Contested Bodies in Turkey: Transformation of Body, Health and Society through Techno-Medical Interventions.“ We would like to thank the reviewers for their careful reading, thoughtful comments and efforts towards […]
“Türkiye’de Çekişmeli Bedenler: Tıp Teknolojisindeki Gelişmelerle Dönüşen Beden, Sağlık Ve Toplum” özel sayımız Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi’nde yayında / Special Issue „Contested Bodies in Turkey“ has finally been published in the Journal of Sociological Research
Our special issue „Contested Bodies in Turkey: Transformation of Body, Health and Society through Techno-Medical Interventions“ (guest editors: Melike Şahinol & Gülşah Başkavak) has finally been published in the Journal of Sociological Research. The development of this special issue involves a long process of reflection and discussion. The birth of the idea began in September […]