Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to take part in our panel ‘Entangled temporalities of the experience of “chronic living” with technological devices’ at the next Medical Anthropology Europe Conference (Vienna 16-19 September 2025).
Looking forward to receiving your abstracts,
Best wishes,
Lucie Dalibert
Lucie Dalibert | Associate professor | Philosophy of technology and health humanities | PI LivACT | S2HEP Research Centre | Lyon East Medical School | University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 | 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918 | 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex | France | lucie.dalibert@univ-lyon1.fr |
‘Entangled temporalities of the experience of “chronic living” with technological devices’
Abstract: Disability and chronic illness have become a privileged place for technological intervention. Both are characterized by the deployment of technological devices that aim to mitigate, compensate for, or even prevent and slow down the loss of capacities, as well as alleviate or limit symptoms. In this context, a varied array of technologies that differently act on or intervene in bodies and places are introduced in people’s lives (e.g. insulin pumps, prostheses, dialysis equipment, telecare, etc.).
Regarding this ‘technological care’ (Lancelot & Guchet, 2023), research in STS and medical anthropology has mainly focused on technological use and appropriation, including the difficulties thereof. However vital and essential these technologies may be in sustaining people in daily life, attention has scarcely been paid to their fragility and people’s resulting vulnerability when they malfunction, wear and tear, break and/or thus can no longer be used or have to be adjusted and/or used differently (Oudshoorn, 2020).
These material and existential disruptions and constraints call for inquiring about the entanglements of different temporalities of chronic living (Wahlberg & al., 2021): of bodies adjusting to chronic illness, disability and/or to technological care; of the technologies themselves (from their development to their everyday use, adaptation, malfunctions and maintenance) and the socio-material infrastructures that support them; and of the relations between them. We invite contributions that address technological care and its temporalities in the context of disability and chronic illness.
Panel organizers:
Lucie Dalibert, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
lucie.dalibert@univ-lyon1.fr
Agathe Camus, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
agathe.camus@univ-lyon1.fr
Valentine Gourinat, Strasbourg University
gourinat@unistra.fr
Panel ID number: 19
Call for abstracts:
Deadline : April 15th
Abstracts (250 words max) should be submitted on the MAE website: https://mae.univie.ac.at/submission-guidelines/call-for-papers-and-roundtable-participation/
Hybrid conference:
September 16-19, 2025
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