Technologies of Mind and Body 2019

Technologies of Mind and Body poster

Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

The symposium will address the following topics:

• The mind/body as object of scientific and medical knowledge

• Media technologies and new arenas of sensory experience

• The blurred boundaries between science, technology and culture

• Encounters between the ‘biological’ and the ‘technological’

• Technologies of the self and self-fashioning

• Disciplinary power, biopolitics and techniques of bodily management

• Understandings of human variation and dis/ability

For further details and registration, please visit the main conference page.