https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdOiorTosGtdGCltbdgJFxInscale5RrH – 22 Kasım 2021 GÜN 1 9.30 Açılış Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu (ODTÜ) Melek Dosay Gökdoğan (Ankara Üniversitesi) 9.40 Konferans Konuşması Remzi Demir (Ankara Üniversitesi) 10.20 Ara 10.30 Oturum 1 Panel – Bilim İletişimi Moderatör Erkan Saka (Bilgi Üniversitesi) Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli (Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi), Melike Şahinol (Orient-Institut Istanbul), Şafak Kılıçtepe (Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi), […]
Category: Science, Technology and Society
Panel on “Modified (Hu)Man: Traditions, Vulnerabilities and Possible Futures” @ IRAN AT THE CROSSWAYS FILM FORUM, Documentaries and Dialogues on a Changing Society, ORIENT-INSTITUT ISTANBUL
Friday, November 12th, 2021 6:30 p.m. [CET] Opening of the Film Forum IRAN AT THE CROSSWAYS For more information about the two-day film forum and registration visit the film forum website: https://en.filmforum-iran.org/ 7:00 p.m. [CET] Modified (Hu)Man: Traditions, Vulnerabilities and Possible Futures (introduction by Melike Şahinol) Body modifications are used not only to “repair” injuries […]
Ph.D. Research Grant Announcement 2021/22 — Call for Applications —
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is pleased to invite applications for Ph.D. research grants for 2021/22. The purpose of the grant is to provide support for field research in Istanbul/Turkey to Ph.D. candidates not living in Turkey. Due to the continuing pandemic situation, the fellowship period need not be spent entirely in Istanbul. If the fellowship is […]
“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 […]
Is there a Middle Eastern Body? Session I + II: August 8th, 2021 @ “The Re-invention of Traditions in the Middle East” conference
Day 2: August 8th, 2021 9:30 UK Time 9:30–9:40 Registration 9:40-9:50 Dr Soheila Shahshahani: Welcome Note to Participants 9:50: Panel 5: Is there a Middle Eastern Body? Convenors: Prof Dr Claudia Liebelt and Dr Melike Şahinol, “Introductory Remarks” Discussant: Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu Session I: Regulating the “Middle Eastern” Body 10:00-10:20 Dr Cimen Gunay-Erkol and Dr […]
Online survey: Hair:y_less Masculinities
Our research was affected by the pandemic. Hence, our methodological shift towards an online survey. We invite you to participate in the survey, which you can access from the link below. Our survey takes about 20 minutes. We would appreciate, if you could allocate your time. Your answers will be anonymized. Language options in English, […]
Visiting the Department for Media Studies, University of Paderborn – fall 2021, substituting Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber #sts #mediastudies #SociologyofMedia
It’s official. In fall 2021 I will substitute Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber at the Department for Media Studies at the University of Paderborn as part of a guest stay. With this context, I am preparing four Seminars at the intersection of Media/Digitalization, Medicine, Posthumanism and Disability Studies: Cochlea-Implantate, bionische Prothesen und andere assistive Technologien. Digitale […]
Assistance – On the History of Assistive Ensembles (2nd Meeting of the network “Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media”) 17-19 March 2021 #ststwitter
The category of assistive technologies is often discussed as a political category (Alper 2017), as they invoke connotations such as “in need of help” with respect to the respective users (Mills 2015; Kotsch 2012; Ott 2014). At this meeting, the concept of assistance will be historically situated and questioned. The aim is to problematize the […]