September 2025 Computing Sociality, Emotional Programming and Autism at 4S In September 2025, Eva Šlesingerová presented her talk Computing Sociality/Dispositif of Personhood, Emotional Programming and Autism at the 4S Annual Meeting in Seattle.
August 2025 Team Workshops on the Current Debate of Social Robotics In July & August 2025, EMOROB organised two internal workshops aimed at sharing research progress and promoting interdisciplinary discussion within the team.
July 2025 Theorizing Artificial Intelligence and Sociology of the Future Werner Binder took part in the ISA Conference Sociology of the Future /The Future of Sociology with the paper: Theorizing Artificial Intelligence: The Cultural Construction of Intentionality and Agency.
May 2025 Relationship between metaphors and autism therapy research How do metaphors and analogies influence research of autism therapy? Ilaria Fornacciari explored this relationship and more in her talk "Mirroring Mechanical Metaphors: Materials for an Archaeology of “Emotional Competence”, from Asperger to Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy (RAAT)".
March 2025 Eva Šlesingerová: Dekolonizace znamená zcitlivění. Rozhovor pro Artalk Co je to “affective computing”? A co na zkoumání citovosti robotů otevírá otázky po člověku? V rozhovoru s Palo Fabušem rozebírá socioložka Eva Šlesingerová emoce, umělý život, jinakost a neurodiverzitu.
December 2024 Affective technologies as a contemporary topic of biopolitics In November 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari participated in the Second International Symposium on Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age with her talk titled "In Real Time: Affective Technologies and the Epistemology of the Cognitive Subject" (presented online).
December 2024 Foucault in debate with Critical post-humanism In October 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk "Techniques and Technologies from Archeological Analysis to Critical Posthumanism” at the Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University, Netherlands.
October 2024 Eva Šlesingerová on Toby Miller's podcast “Culture Studies” about emotional robotics and autism Podcast episode explores themes of emotional robotics, autism, beekeeping, Soviet colonialism, utopia, and heterotopia.
