Event overview
We founded聽'Dingdingdong. Institute for the co-production of knowledge about Huntington鈥檚 Disease' in 2012 as a wager: The wager that Huntington鈥檚 disease (HD) 鈥� a complex, incurable, so called neurodegenerative, and genetically transmitted late-onset disease 鈥撀爌rovides an opportunity to push thinking further! Ever since, our collective which is composed of users, physicians, researchers in the humanities, and artists, has worked on quite a number of levels at the crucial task of intervening into HD鈥檚 exclusively despairing 鈥榥atural history鈥�, thereby interfering with the assumption that medical ontologies are the arena of biomedical knowledge-production only. In my talk I would (1) like to account for some aspects of the polyphonic research paths we pursue into the enigmatic planet we like to call聽Huntingtonland. (2) Taken together, these have not only rendered an extraordinary collective adventure possible but also started configuring alternative, more joyful landscapes for living聽with聽(this) disease. Finally, (3) I would like to discuss in how far Dingdingdong鈥檚 quite particular manner of cultivating problems might contribute to the Medical Humanities and more particularly to emerging 鈥榮peculative鈥� approaches within this field of research.聽
Speaker biography:
Katrin Solhdjuis a permanent researcher of the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (FNRS) and a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mons (Belgium). She is one of the co-founders of聽Dingdingdong. Institute for the co-production of knowledge about Huntington鈥檚 Disease and member of the聽Groupe d鈥櫭﹖udes constructivistes聽(GeCo) at the Free University of Brussels. Her research interests range from the Medical Humanities to Science Studies and Pragmatism. She is the author of two monographs:聽L鈥櫭塸reuve du savoir. Propositions pour une 茅cologie du diagnostic, 2015 - German edition 2018 (soon also available in English) and聽Selbstexperimente.聽Die Suche nach der Innenperspektive und ihre epistemologischen Folgen, 2011.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Dec 2018 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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