Category: Workshop

STS Türkiye Bilim, Teknoloji ve Toplum Kış Okulu 2024: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde Başlıyor!

Heyecanla beklediğimiz STS Türkiye Bilim, Teknoloji ve Toplum Kış Okulu 2024, yarın başlıyor! Bu etkinlikte, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral Kampüsü’nde gerçekleştireceğimiz üç gün boyunca farklı disiplinlerden araştırmacı ve akademisyenler STS ile ilgili teorik çerçeveler, kavramlar ve tartışmalar üzerine dersler verecekler. Bu kış okulunu düzenlemekte olan STS Türkiye Koordinasyon Üyeleri olarak, etkinliğin gerçekleştirilmesine destek veren İstanbul […]

“STS Meets Ethics” Conference 2023: Reflecting on Three Remarkable Days of Exploration

Today marks the end of three extraordinary and enlightening days at the “STS Meets Ethics” conference. In a world marked by climate change, environmental challenges, and the rapid advancement of technology, it has become essential to address these multifaceted issues through an interdisciplinary lens. The “STS Meets Ethics” conference, jointly organized by METU Applied Ethics […]

Workshop: Beyond Boundaries: Persons, (Bio)Technologies, & the Law

From October 2nd to 3rd, I had the privilege of participating in the workshop “Beyond Boundaries: Persons, (Bio)Technologies, & the Law” in Wales, organized as part of the ‘Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Law’s Boundary Work and Alternative Legal Futures‘ project and the ‘Hybrid Minds‘ project, coordinated by Dr. Joseph Roberts. The purpose of this workshop was […]

Hybrid Workshop: Best Practices and Obstacles in Ethics Educationfor Technological and Scientific Challenges, April 27th-28th 2023, Athens

I am honored to have been invited as an expert to the hybrid workshop on “Best Practices and Obstacles in Ethics Education for Technological and Scientific Challenges,” which is organized as part of the EU ERASMUS+ project, ETHICS4CHALLENGES (E4C): Innovative Ethics Education for Major Technological and Scientific Challenges. This two-day workshop will take place on […]

STS TURKEY Bilim, Teknoloji ve Toplum Kış Okulu 2023

Düzenleyenler / Organizers: Melike Şahinol, Emine Öncüler Yayalar,  Şafak Kılıçtepe, Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu, Erkan Saka Destekleyen / Supporter: Orient-Institut Istanbul Yer / Venue: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sokak 16 D.7, Beyoğlu / Istanbul *Dersler Türkçe olarak yapılacaktır. / The lectures will be held in Turkish. Bilim, teknoloji ve iş dünyası, siyaset veya medya gibi toplumsal yaşam […]

9-10 Eylül: STS “Doğa ve Kültür Ayrımının Ötesinde” konulu konferansı (Türk-Alman Üniversitesi, Beykoz/ Istanbul)

9-10 Eylül gerçekleşecek olan Türk-Alman Üniversitesi olarak DAAD ve Bielefeld Üniversitesi işbirliği ile düzenlenen STS “Doğa ve Kültür Ayrımının Ötesinde” konulu konferansına katılımı için kayıtlar başlamıştır. 9 Eylül, Cuma, saat 9:45-16:00 konuşmacılar: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke Doç. Dr. Valentin Rauer Dr. Melike Şahinol Dr. Emine Öncüler Yayalar Dr. Emre Sünter Dr. Eylül Alnıaçık Özyer 10 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]