Tıbbın Epistemik Serüveni: Bir Biyopolitik Fenomenoloji Denemesi (Özen B. Demir): Tıbbın, bütün “insancıl” ve inter-disipliner vurgulara inat, bir tür kendiliğinden ideoloji şeklinde varlığını sürdüren fizikalizmi, mekanik ve şabloncu paradigması esasında bir tür “ucube fabrikası” olarak çalışır. Tıbbın hegemonik bilim rejimi bünyesindeki tevellüdü modernite öncesine, antikiteye dek uzatılabilir. Bu koordinattaki elzem kavram ise “isonomia”dır. İsonomia ideali, […]
Month: January 2020
Bodiless Heads No.2: Bodies, borders, flux and fluidity – lecture / performance / encounter with Shahrzad Irannejad & Setareh Fatehi, 22 Jan, 19h #OrientInstitut
During this encounter, we will hear about the research-practice of Bodiless Heads that Shahrzad Irannejad and Setareh Fatehi developed in 2017, which continues to inspire their current individual works and research. Bodiless Heads is a research on traditions of [non-]depictions of the body in the Islamicate world; it is a metaphor, a hypothesis, an imaginary […]
Lecture 20 Jan, 19h: Self-efficacy and help-seeking behaviour among women with the experience of Intimate partner violence (Asst. Prof. Dr. Azam Naghavi) #OrientInstitut
According to global data, intimate partner violence and its corresponding impact threaten the lives of almost 35% of women at some point in their life. The aim of this research was to explore the effects of intimate partner sexual violence on women’s sense of self-efficacy. The participants, 10 women with experiences of intimate partner sexual […]
Workshop: „Technology and the Body: Care, Empowerment and the Fluidity of Bodies“ #OrientInstitut #HumanMedicineSociety #STS #Care #Empowerment #Posthumanism #PosthumanFeminism
As part of our “Standing Working Group Iran and Beyond – Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC): Performance of Culture, Religion and Body as Strategies of Self-Empowerment in the Islamic Republic of Iran“ (Orient-Institut Istanbul, “Wissen entgrenzen”, Max Weber Stiftung, gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) we are planning an internal workshop […]
8 Jan, 19h: Panel on #Ancient #DNA and our Future: Techno-Scientific and Ethical Reflections with Asst. Prof. Dr. Füsun Özer & Dr. Robin Ann Downey #OrientInstitut #sts #RRI
Ancient DNA (Füsun Özer): Ancient DNA (aDNA) research focuses on the analyses of degraded DNA fragments extracted from archaeological remains such as bones, teeth and hair. These DNA molecules are sequenced to obtain individuals’ genomes, which are analysed for inferring kinship, demographic history, biological adaptations, and genetic diseases. The earliest aDNA studies mostly focused on […]