CfPanelists: History of Technology and Disability – session during International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC conference
Seeking
panelists to a session on complexity and history of mutual relations
between technology and disability for 2019 ICOHTEC conference to be held
in Katowice, Poland 22-27 July 2019. The panel will engage with the
main conference theme (technology and power) by examining the
disability-technology relations in local, statewide, and global
frameworks. In this panel I hope to explore an entanglement where
technology, disability, poverty, gender, and ethnicity intersect – all
these aspects influence the accessibility as well as development of
instruments, services and “technical literacy”.
Please have a look
at the list of potential topics, and consider it more as an inspiration
than a closed and ready catalog of problems:
- the bio/medical technologies as biopolitical tool
- strategies and contexts of resistance against bio/medical technologies
- prosthesis as cultural artefact and political statement
- dis/emancipatory technologies
- global and postcolonial aspects of relations between technology and disability
- special – mainstream – and back again: assistive technologies
- the cyborgisation of the disabled body
- disabled users and DIY practices: reusing, repairing and tinkering as inventing
- the disabled inventors
To submit proposal please send it to magda.zdrodowska@uj.edu.pl by 15 December 2018,
as the session proposals deadline is 15 January 2019. In your proposal
please include a 300-word abstract (please keep that limit as the
submission system is very strict), as well as one-page CV, both in DOC
or DOCX format.