From: Media Release/York University (original link) Professor Hélène Mialet (York University), along with her colleagues, Tarek Elhaik (University of California, Davis) and Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles), will direct a new program, entitled, “Future Flourishing,” sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)’s initiative for the “Future of Being Human.” The Future Flourishing program will explore how human exceptionalism can be reconfigured by extending the boundary and definition of the human to the living and non-living beings that make us who we are. As Mialet explains, “the fundamental question at the core of the Future Flourishing program, is how can we live well without human exceptionalism. How can we live well and flourish with those upon whom we depend or with whom we share a common world? The establishment of a new definition of the human will have tremendous implications for how we think about and ‘do’ politics, ethics, knowledge and morality.” Mialet, Elhaik and Kelty have assembled a network of 16 exceptional scholars and practitioners, including philosophers, historians, curators, conservators, artists and anthropologists from around the world to help develop this program. Read the press release from York University. Professor Hélène Mialet gave a talk along with renowned STS scholars Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago) and Ken Alder (Northwestern University) on the life, work, and legacy of Bruno Latour (1947-2022) for the graduate students and faculty of the Science in Human Culture Graduate Program at Northwestern University on April 10th. Hélène shared insights into how should STS remember Latour and follow his contributions. Her article "Where would STS be without Latour? What would be missing?" was one of the focuses of the discussion.
Prof. Hélène Mialet's ethnographic work on diabetes 1 control training was awarded an Insight Grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The project is titled: "Sensors, Senses and Sensibility: An Ethnographic Study of 'Control' in Type 1 Diabetes." Hélène has already published a few articles with insights from the ethnographic work. Suggestive readings are "How dogs become accurate instruments: care, attunement, and reflexivity" and "Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes"
Drawing on her ethnographic work at Dogs4Diabetics (D4D) in California, the open access piece was published in the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and is available here.
I recently had a chance to speak to Tobias Rees, of the Berggruen Insitute where I am currently an inaugural fellow. Our conversation included some thoughts on Stephen Hawking, the idea of a distributed subject which arose from my ethnographic work with Professor Hawking, and how it relates to my current research on type 1 diabetes.
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