4.10.2017, 19h: İnsan Geliştirme sunum programı / Vorträge zum Thema Human Enhancement, Orient-Institut Istanbul

İnsan Geliştirme: İnsanın Doğasını Değiştirmenin Toplumsal Sonuçları
Human Enhancement: Die gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Manipulation des Menschen

4 Ekim 2017, saat 7, Orient-Institut İstanbul, Moralı Apt.
4. Oktober 2017, 19h, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Moralı Apt.
Konuşmacılar / Vortragende:
Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse)
Verbesserung des Menschen – ein Angriff auf die Natur des Menschen?
İnsan Geliştirme – İnsanın Doğasına bir Saldırı?

Prof. Dr. Hakan Hakeri
(Istanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Hukuk Fakültesi)
İnsan Geliştirme: Türkiye’de Hukuki Tartışmalar
Verbesserung des Menschen – Rechtliche Diskussionen in der Türkei

Simultane çeviri vardır (Almanca / Türkçe).
Es erfolgt eine Simultanübersetzung Deutsch/Türkisch.

Tartışmacı / Diskutantin: Dr. Melike Şahinol

 

Orient-Institut Istanbul,
Kumrulu Sok. 38, Moralı Apt.
34433 Cihangir – İstanbul
Tel: +90 – 212 – 293 60 67 / 252 19 83
Email: oiist@oidmg.org
web: http://www.oiist.org

 

#necs2017 Panel “Changing sensory regimes and emergent corpo-realities” (01 July 2017)

MEDIA AND PARTICIPATION

Reflections on dis-/abling practices

We are very happy to announce this exciting panel with the following speakers: David Parisi (Charleston) and Jason Archer (Chicago), Melike Sahinol (Istanbul), Denisa Butnaru (Freiburg) and Andreas Henze (Siegen). Convenor: Robert Stock (Konstanz).

Please come join us on July 1, 2017, 13.00-14.45 / J, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. (Notice the schedule update!)

Have a look at the definitive programme on the NECS-homepage.

ABSTRACT: This panel will analyze changing sensory regimes and emergent corpo-realities by looking at dis-/abling practices and exploring relevant examples within contemporary contexts of digital media or medial dispositives developed in medical sciences and robotics. According to Schillmeier, who analyzes blind money practices, the notion of “(visual) disability refers to complex sets of heterogeneous practices that (re)associate bodies, material objects, and technologies with sensory and other practices.” (2007: 197) Relations between biotechnologies (i.e. neuro-prostheses) and bodies provide the basis for new sensory practices…

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Additive bio-manufacturing: 3D printing for medical recovery and human enhancement @ STOA, Brussels

I’ll participate at the 360°-Envisioning Workshop,  European Parliament /Science and Technology Options Assessment Brussels, on additive bio-manufacturing: 3D printing for medical recovery and human enhancement as expert.

my project details: Additive Manufacturing: Enabling-Technologies during Childhood «ETeC»

19.4.: Medical Humanities Discussing Bodily Enhancement (Rainer Brömer, Istanbul University Medical Faculty)

Medical Humanities Discussing Bodily Enhancement
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rainer Brömer, Istanbul University Medical Faculty, Dept. for History of Medicine and Ethics

date: Wednesday, 19 April, 7PM UTC+02
location: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sok. 16, D. 8, Cihangir-Istanbul
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Enhancement has become a multidisciplinary topic par excellence, being discussed academically by physicians and natural scientists as well as ethicists, social, cultural and political scientists, and literary scholars and many more. What is the most suitable approach for society as a whole to make sense of the promises, chances, and possible threats of ever deeper techno-medical intervention into the human body?

Medical Humanities try to bridge the gap between the natural and human sciences of medicine and the humanity of medical practice. Questions of meaning (culture) and values (ethics) related to biomedical developments can be usefully addressed in this field where the exact, numeric sciences merge with the creative imagination of the arts, reflecting and anticipating potential human experiences in a world that may look fairly different from the conditions the human species has evolved in over the millennia. Maybe a good SciFi can achieve more than some academic textbook?

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rainer Brömer studied biology, philosophy, and history of science in Germany and Italy and has been working in medical humanities in England and in history of medicine and ethics in Germany and Turkey. His research area includes the attitude to the human body in anatomy in the Ottoman Empire, while in the realm of ethics, he has increasingly become interested in the meaning of permanently modifying the biological frame of human beings. As a lapsed biologist, he does not share the enthusiasm of certain philosophers who are postulating for themselves a life expectancy of centuries, though biotechnological change seems inevitable.

Conceptions of Contagious Diseases among Early Modern Ottomans (Sara Nur Yıldız), Wednesday, 12 April, 7PM, OII

How did Ottoman physicians conceive of epidemic diseases and pestilence and their relationship to contagion? This talk addresses this question through the examination of a medical text composed by Mehmed IV’s (r. 1648-1687) head physician, Ḥayātīzāde Muṣṭafā Feyżī the Elder (d. 1692), or Moshe ben Raphael Abravanel, as he was known before he converted to Islam in the late 1660s. This work, el-Risāʾilü’l-Müşfiye li’l-emrāżı’l-müşkile, commonly known as the Quintet of Five Diseases discusses five “epidemic” diseases in the seventeenth century: syphilis, plica, the plague, and two kinds of melancholy. Trained as a physican in Padua, Italy, Ḥayātīzāde claims to present new information not found in the classical Islamic/Ottoman medical corpus. The Quintet of Five Diseases exemplifies how medical knowledge and conceptions of disease and contagion traveled across linguistic, state and religious borders in the early modern Mediterranean world.

About Dr. Sara Nur Yıldız: Currently a Koç University ANAMED Senior Fellow, Dr. Yıldız is a historian of the political, cultural, religious and intellectual life of late medieval Anatolia of the Seljuk, Mongol and Ottoman periods. She received her PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago (2006). Her current research focuses on the Seljuks of Anatolia, as well as Islamization, textual production and the transfer of knowledge, and Islamic/Ottoman medical textual traditions. She has served as assistant professor at Istanbul Bilgi University (2003-2010), researcher at the Orient-Institut Istanbul (2011-2016), and research fellow on the European Research Council Project entitled “The Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500,” based at the School of History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK (2013-2016).

date: Wednesday, 12 April, 7PM UTC+02

location: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sok. 16, D. 8, Cihangir-Istanbul

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20.03.2017, Orient-Institut Istanbul: Sunum İptali, Cancelled Talk, Vortrag fällt aus

20 Mayıs  2017 sunumu “Yardımcı üreme tekniklerinin sosyokültürel etkileri (Prof. Dr. Ramazan Mercan)” elimizde olmayan sebeplerden dolayı iptal edilmiştir.

20 March 2017 talk “Yardımcı üreme tekniklerinin sosyokültürel etkileri (Prof. Dr. Ramazan Mercan)” is cancelled due to given circumstances.

20. März 2017 Vortrag “Yardımcı üreme tekniklerinin sosyokültürel etkileri (Prof. Dr. Ramazan Mercan)” fällt aus gegebenem Anlass aus.

20.3.,19:00 Yardımcı üreme tekniklerinin sosyokültürel etkileri / Prof. Dr. Mercan

Yardımcı üreme tekniklerinin sosyokültürel etkileri / Prof. Dr. Ramazan Mercan

Orient-Institut Istanbul – sunum ilgililere açıktır, sunum dili türkçe’dir

Tarih : 20-03-2017, saat 19:00

İnfertilite genel olarak bir çiftin 1 yıl korunmamasına karşın çocuk sahibi olamaması olarak tanımlanır ve çiftlerin %15’inde görülür.

İn vitro fertilizasyon (IVF) ile ilk gebelik 1978 yılında İngiltere’de elde edilmiş ve 1979’da Louis Brown’ın sağlıklı olarak doğması ile ifertilite alanında yeni bir döneme girilmiştir. İnfertilite alanında  devrim olarak kabul edilen bu gelişmeyi sağlayan Dr. Robert Edwards yıllar sonra da olsa Nobel ödülüne layık görülmüştür. Daha sonra 1992 yılında mikroenjeksiyon uygulamasının başarılı bir şekilde uygulanması erkek kısırlığında bir devrim olarak kabul edilmiştir.

IVF dinsel açıdan bakıldığında bütün dinlerde tanımlanan üreme normlarına aykırı olmakla birlikte toplumsal açıdan kabul edilmesi tartışma yaratmamıştır. Başlanıçta klisenin engellemeleri ile karşılaşmış ve hayvan uygulamalarından ancak 150 yıl sonra insanlarda uygulanmasına karşın şu anda bir kısıtlama bulunmamaktadır. Gelişmekte olan ve az gelişmiş ülkelerde kültürel açıdan bazı zorluklar görülmesine karşın, hızla yaygınlaşmıştır. Başlangıçta birçok çift tedavinin gizli kalmasına büyük bir önem verirken şu anda böyle kaygılarla çok daha seyrek olarak karşılaşmaktayız.

 

 

 

Davetiye: Doğayı Yeniden Şekillendirmek, İnsan Hayatı Geliştirmek mi? / Invitation: Designing Nature, Upgrading Human Life?

Konferans Serisi / Lecture Series Orient-Institut Istanbul 2016/2017

Doğayı Yeniden Şekillendirmek, İnsan Hayatı Geliştirmek mi? / Designing Nature, Upgrading Human Life?

katılım tüm ilgililere açıktır / there is no registration or conference fee.

konum / location: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sok. 16, D. 8, Cihangir-Istanbul

Sorumlu / Academic Coordinator: Dr. Melike Şahinol

tmr 7PM: The vulnerable consumer in times of greedy institutions. Digital #self-tracking between disruptive technologies and cultural change (Prof. Dr. Selke)

Digital self measurement is an indication of societies to come. I will argue that this is nothing more than a modern-day return to the alchemistic principle. The starting point is always the “common” person, the human who is not yet fully developed, or the human who represents a risk or a source of error. With the help of quantification, one’s lifestyle is said to become more rational: “common” people should be transformed into “precious” people. On the one hand, high resolution data collections open the door to new possibilities of rational differentiation. However, self observation is not only becoming more exact, it is also becoming increasingly divisive. Being socially assessable is becoming increasingly tied to economic exploitability. And economic exploitability and rational observation represent an act of abstraction that alienates people from themselves and from others: We start to perceive ourselves differently when we all observe each other based on data.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Selke is professor of “Sociology and Social change” at the University of Furtwangen (http://en.hs-furtwangen.de/) in Germany. He is also a research professor for “Transformative and Public Science” (2015-2018). At the Furtwangen University he holds the positions of a senate representative for sustainable development and the vice dean of the faculty “Health, Safety and Society”. His current research interests are about the economy of poverty, reputation capital in the charity market, public science/public sociology and the digitalisation of society (in particular lifelogging and artificial intelligence).

date: Thursday, 7. March, zPM UTC+02

location: Orient-Institut Istanbul, Susam Sok. 16, D. 8, Cihangir-Istanbul

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7.3., 7PM: The vulnerable consumer in times of greedy institutions. Digital self-tracking between disruptive technologies and cultural change (Prof. Dr. Selke)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Selke (University of Furtwangen) will give a talk on “The vulnerable consumer in times of greedy institutions. Digital self-tracking between disruptive technologies and cultural change”, Tuesday, March 07 at 7pm at the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

There is no registration or conference fee.