In May 2024, Christina Stimson from the University of Sheffield had the privilege of fulfilling a life-long dream to visit Japan, at the invitation of Prof. Tomohiro Shibata of the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
On April 25 and 26, members of the itDf team, partners and associates gathered at the Queens Hotel in Leeds to discuss the many interactions between disability and technology and reflect on their future relationships.
Team members Luna Dolezal and Stuart Murray visited the University of Pittsburgh in October 2023 to present itDf project work to staff and students, following an invitation from Mark Paterson in Pittsburgh’s Department of Sociology. Each spoke as part of the University’s Bioethics and Health Humanities series, co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Health Law.
We are delighted to have had two sessions accepted for the conference on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), ISAAC 2023, being held in Cancún, Mexico in July
New Scientist Live 2023 @ ExCel London, 7 – 9 October, 2023 by Michael Szollosy, Tony Prescott, Christina E. Stimson …
The latest book by Professor Amelia DeFalco, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care, is due to be published soon.
• A book-length study of narrative representations of twenty-first-century posthuman care that offers a unique, posthumanist exploration of contemporary fiction.
• Provides a new method for analysing and theorizing care and a significant new interpretation of the philosophy of care, contemporary literature, and posthumanism.
• Offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to care that employs conceptual and methodological insights from contemporary literary and cultural studies.
Project Converse workshop, Buffalo NY, 31 May – 2 June 2023 by Graham Pullin and Fin Tams-Gray Graham Pullin and …
On 15 March 2023 itDf exhibited at the launch of the Innovation Network South Yorkshire Showcase, hosted by the University …
In February, team members Raymond Holt, Hassan Dogar and Stuart Murray travelled to Eindhoven and Leiden in The Netherlands to …
Stuart Murray’s 2020 monograph Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology, and Cultural Futures is now freely available through an Open Access agreement …