We invite you to consider submitting an abstract to “Rethinking Expertise under COVID-19: a New Look at Digitization and Decentralization”, panel @ 4S Annual Meeting, 6-9 October, Toronto and worldwide. Submission Deadline: March 8, 2021 via https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/Keywords: enabling technologies, maker movement, expertise, healthcare, 3D printing This session takes its inspiration from transformations in manufacturing and […]
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Kick-Off Meeting: Scientific Network Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media (10-11 Dec 2020)
Our DFG scientific network #DisAbilities & #DigitalMedia has started its activities. I am very excited and look forward to this great kick-off meeting with some public lectures. You can find details about the meeting below. For information about our network please visit our website: https://dis-abilities-and-digital-media.org/ . Agency – Participation – Cooperation The Praxeological Production of […]
2nd STS TURKEY Winter School “Science, Technology and Society” successfully completed #ststwitter #ststurkey
As the Turkish Scholarly Network for Science and Technology Studies, one of the objectives of STS TURKEY is to increase the visibility of STS in Turkey by promoting relevant field research and training activities. Regarding the aim of conveying basic STS theoretical frameworks, concepts and related discussions at introductory-level, January 2019, we organized our first […]
INVITATION “Human, Medicine and Society: Challenges of Digitalization”, panel with two lectures with Armin Grunwald @ITAS_KIT & @erdil_erkan & Ö. Ilhan @odtutekpol Wed. February 12, 19h #OrientInstitut Istanbul for details:
Invitation Human, Medicine and Society: Challenges of Digitalization Panel with two lectures with Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT (ITAS), Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag Prof. Dr. Erkan Erdil, Department of Economics and Science and Technology Policies Research Center (METU-TEKPOL), […]
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 […]
Lecture on “Service Robots in Healthcare” @OliverBendel 18 Dec, 19h #OIIstanbul #CareRobots #SexRobots #SurgeryRobots #MachineEthics #InformationEthics #STStwitter don’t miss:
In his lecture at the Orient-Institut Istanbul on 18 December 2019, Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel from Zurich, Switzerland is going to deal with care robots as well as therapy and surgery robots. He will present well-known and less known examples and clarify the goals, tasks and characteristics of these service robots in the healthcare sector. […]
Lecture Series „Human, Medicine and Society: Past, Present and Future Encounters“ program / „İnsan, Tıp ve Toplum: Geçmiş, Bugün ve Gelecek Buluşmaları“ Konferans Dizimizin programı, 04.12.2019-04.03.2020, 19h, Orient-Institut Istanbul:
(for english pls scroll down) İnsan, Tıp ve Toplum alanı, disiplinlerarası, yenilikçi ve geniş bir konu yelpazesini kapsar. Tıp, bilim ve teknolojide görülen hızlı değişim ve gelişmeler toplumların yapısında da sürekli yeniliklere, ve düzenlemelere yol açmaktadır. Bu yenilikler, sağlık kurum ve politikalarının sosyal, ekonomik, hukuki ve kültürel yönleri ile ilgili olup ayrıca hastalık, sağlık, tıp […]
The Politics of Life and Death at Istanbul’s Food Banks (Asst. Prof. Dr. Candan Türkkan, Özyeğin University, Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts), Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 19:00, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Through an analysis of two state-created and state-managed databases that assess the applicants’ eligibility, I will explore how the two fundamental components of biopolitics – ‘making live’ and ‘letting die’ – are interlaced in Istanbul’s food banks. After a discussion of what food banks are and how they got to Istanbul, I will introduce the […]
“Human, Medicine and Society: Past, Present and Future Encounters” Series of Lectures, Orient-Institut Istanbul (4 Dec 2019 – 4 Mar 2020) #human #medicine #ststwitter #care #sexrobots #energy #performance #foodbanks #biopower #womanstudies #healthpolitics #art
The issue of Human, Medicine and Society encompasses a broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of topics. Ongoing innovations in medicine, science and technology have led to various possibilities and restructuring orders. These innovations are concerned with social and cultural aspects of illness and health, medicine, health care organizations and health policies. Hence, new practices of self-care combined […]