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Bodies, Technology, Touch and Telepresence: itDf visits the University of Pittsburgh

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.

Book cover of Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care. The cover is white with the book title in blue lettering near the top. At the bottom is an image of two figures resting on a long, dark bench with their backs to the viewer. The figure on the left is a child in a blue shirt. They are leaning on a strange creature with wrinkled, pinkish skin which lies across the bench beside them.

Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care

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.