Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures

The research project Media of Assistance, is organising its final conference in the coming summer term: "Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures" and would like to invite you to participate.

The conference will take place between 1 and 3 July, probably online. Submissions for papers should be sent to AssistiveMedia [at] leuphana.de by 30 April.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Mara Mills (NYU)

All further information can be found in the call for papers: Click here for more information.

Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures

The research project Media of Assistance, is organising its final conference in the coming summer term: "Assistance, Assistants and Assistive Media. Barriers and Interfaces of Digital Cultures" and would like to invite you to participate.

The conference will take place between 1 and 3 July, probably online. Submissions for papers should be sent to AssistiveMedia [at] leuphana.de by 18 April.

All further information can be found in the call for papers: Click here for more information.

 

 

Universität und Assistenz. Assistive Medien in Lehre und Forschung

Die Universitäten in Deutschland streben danach, auf den unterschiedlichen Ebenen Chancengleichheit und Barrierefreiheit herzustellen sowie die diverse Zusammensetzung aller Statusgruppen zu fördern. Das Diskussionsforum befragt diesen inklusiven Anspruch der Hochschulen in Bezug auf assistive Medien und wird ihn mit den eingeladenen Gästen und interessierten Zuhörer*innen diskutieren.

Conversation starters for the Deaf and the Hearing

Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture, both have established ways of communicating among each other. When you want to mix and mingle, members of both groups need to find new shared channels. We present design considerations leading to our playful prototypes, serving as icebreakers and dialog starters. We rely on open source software to create open source hardware.

Contours of Ableism: Challenging the Notions and Reproduction Mechanisms of Normativity and Social Capital

Prof. Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell, FRSA, 10:00am-15:00pm (CET) Humboldt University of Berlin

Ableism is a system of processes and practices that vary according to time, context and location that forms understandings and tactics of interaction, exclusion, comportment of self as they pertain to humanisation and corresponding hierarchicalisation of life. In this talk I will discuss the complexity of ableist relations in order to refresh the conversation by drawing upon unfamiliar, non-western knowledges to open a new space and lift the dust (aggiornamento) of thinking about human devaluation and development of social capital for minoritised groups.

Keynote: Meryl Alper

Critical Media Access Studies: Examining the Benefits and Limits of Accessibility in Mediated Spaces

The benefits of “accessible” media and technology for people with disabilities are rarely questioned, nor considered within broader critical/cultural frameworks. In this talk, based on an article recently published in the International Journal of Communication, I make a contribution to the field of communication by proposing critical media access studies to further define a growing area of inquiry into contested notions of mediated access, drawing on work from disability media studies and critical access studies in architectural design. 

Post-Doc-Stelle (Universitätsassistenz) an der Universität Innsbruck

Disability Studies und Inklusive Bildung

Eigenständige Forschung und Lehre im Lehr- und Forschungsbereich Disability Studies und Inklusive Bildung. Bewerbungsfrist: 16.4.; Laufzeit 4 Jahre mit Option auf Verlängerung um 2 Jahre; gewünschter Beginn: 01.06.2021

Mehr Informationen:

https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11805

Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming 

Editors: Beate Ochsner & Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Deadline for Abstracts: 15.04.2021 (300 words)Deadline for papers: 15.09.2021

Please submit your abstracts: markus.spoehrer [at] uni-konstanz.de

 

Assistance - On the History of Assistive Ensembles

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. At this meeting, the concept of assistance will be historically situated and questioned. The aim is to problematize the question of what meanings have been attributed to the concept of assistance in the context of dis/abilities in the history of digital media and what place the term takes in current debates about bodies with varying abilities.

Virtual Conference: New Histories of Medical Technology

Medical technologies have transformed the nature of doctor-patient relationships, definitions of health an disease, and the spaces and rhythms of clinical practice. Moving beyond heroic diagnostics and therapeutic devices, this conference spotlights how ordinary objects - speculums, prothetics, hearig aids - have shaped medicine's engagement with technology.