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.
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)".
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 Modern AI entities and the boundaries of the social world Werner Binder presented his talk “Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of the Social World” at the 18th International Conference on Sociocybernetics at Krakow University of Economics in June 2024.
October 2024 Queering Autism In July 2024, Eva Theunissen presented her talk “Queering Autism” at the EASST-4S organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).
October 2024 Affective technologies through the lens of critical post-humanism In September 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari participated in the Robopolitics international conference with her talk titled "Mapped in real time: Affective Technologies and the Post-human Subjectivity".
June 2024 International conference & workshop “Foucault40” debates the current themes and practises of posthumanism On 30th – 31th of May 2024, the international on-site conference & workshop “Foucault40” took place at Faculty of Social Sciences (MU, Brno).
