I am proud to annouce our freely accessible new publication: Şahinol, M., Taşdizen, B., & Başkavak, G. (2022). Hair:y_less Masculinities . A Cartography. Bonn: Şahinol, Melike (in cooperation with perspectivia.net). https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00000 Cosmetic surgery is booming – and no longer just among women: Both surgical procedures and minimal invasive cosmetic treatments are on the rise among […]
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Herbsttagung der DGS Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports: “Verkörperte Gesellschaft revisited”, 26.11. & 3.12.2021, online via Zoom
Wir freuen uns, Sie und Euch im Namen des Vorstands zu unserer diesjährigen Herbsttagung der DGS Sektion Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports einzuladen! Die Konferenz findet an zwei Freitagen, am 26.11. und 3.12., online via Zoom statt. Unter dem Thema „Verkörperte Gesellschaft revisited“ wollen wir 15 Jahre nach der Gründung unserer Sektion einen „Blick zurück nach vorn“ werfen […]
CfP: Bewegte Ordnungen. Mobilität(‑en) als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse (deadline 31.1.22)
Gemeinsame Frühjahrstagung der DGS Sektionen ‘Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung’ und ‘Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports‘ Universität Bayreuth, 24. – 25. März 2022 Mobilität wird als konstitutives Merkmal von Gesellschaft und sozialem Leben in der soziologischen Forschung auf vielfältige Weise empirisch adressiert und prägt die Theorie- und Methodenentwicklung entscheidend. Dabei sind es oft Impulse aus […]
“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 As part of my long-term engagement with inclusive technology design and participatory research, I co-organized the international online workshop Access and Tinkering. Together with Tom Bieling (HAW Hamburg), Anna-Lena Wiechern (Leuphana University Lüneburg), and Robert Stock (HU Berlin), we created a space for critical […]
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 […]