Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Postphenomenology in Health and Education
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3662-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 15/02/2018

Date and time	11.04.2018, at: 10:00 - 12.04.2018, at: 18:00
Regular seats	18
Course fee	3,240.00 kr.
Lecturers	Jan Kyrre Berg Friis
ECTS credits	2.20

Contact person	Kathe Jensen E-mail address: kje@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. The students will have insight about postphenomenological methodologies. 2. Learn about the specific analytical approach of postphenomenology in a professional context. 3. The student will be able to engage in phenomenological analysis. Content This PhD course explores the special approach of investigation concerning human technology, world relations and phenomenology – with a special focus on the distinguished professor of techno-philosophy, Don Ihde’s work. Through the past four decades, Ihde has continuously explored potentials for moving phenomenology beyond the essentialism of Husserl and Heidegger and open up for new empirical approaches to health and education. Ihde has developed a new empirical investigative tool within Science and Technology Studies as well as philosophy termed postphenomenology. In this course we will open up this new field to researchers in health and education and focus on Ihde’s work on the relational aspect of humans, technology and the world. The literature to the course will be selected from Ihde’s work over the last 40 years handpicked by Ihde himself, who will present the development of this postphenomenological approach over the years. This includes the new concepts of material hermeneutics, multistability, epistemology engines, as well as postphenomenological embodiment (body I and body II) and mediation. The two course providers, Jan (health) and Cathrine (education), who will contextualise aspect of postphenomenology in their respective areas, which will provide the grounding in health and education. The students will be involved with their own projects through ‘social drama’. Social drama helps groups work in an engaged creative and spontaneous explorations of wider cultural and philosophical issues and themes, such as those being examined in the research. On that ground the course intends to be helpful for PhD students that are currently undertaking or have aspirations to undertake studies of implications in everyday life of human-machine relations. A central tenet of the course is to present, discuss and problematize ambitions to analyse technologies as entities wrapped up in contexts of conceptualization, use, and bodily habit. More precisely the curriculum invites to collaborative analysis of the performance and experience of technology, machines, screens and robots and the emergent problems that accompany their use in health and education. Questions like the following are asked: How can postphenomenology help open up empirical studies? How does technology shape health and education? One on-going branch of analysis the course will engage with involves the implications of technologies for specific contemporary professional work in schools and in health care. Day 1. Introduction Lecture by Don Ihde Title: "From Classical to Postphenomenology". Readings from Husserl's Missing Technologies [Ch. 6] and Heidegger's Technologies [Ch. 5] Tech and Lifeworld [5 &6] and Postphenomology [Ch. 1]. Lecture One will examine how 'materializing' phenomenology calls for different emphases on the notions of intentionality, human embodiment, mediation and multistability. Afternoon: Student cases: Don Ihde’s texts Day 2. Lecture by Don Ihde Title: "Interdisciplinary Postphenomenology" [Remainder of listed readings]. Just as philosophy of technology is necessarily interdisciplinary, the materialization of phenomenology in postphenomenology calls for interdisciplinarity. I will look at STS models of approach including 'empirical' or case studies and a range of interdisciplinary roles in postphenomenology. Lecture by Jan Kyrre Friis Title: Postphenomenology in Health – Hermeneutics to Material hermeneutics. Lecture by Cathrine Hasse Title: Postphenomenology in education Bodies are in educational technologies. The postphenomenological approach contributes to our understanding of how humans and technologies create each other when the educational system increasing makes use of algorithmic intelligent machines like software programs and robots. Afternoon: Student cases: social drama Evaluation Participants All students with an interest in studies of human-technology relations in health and education and students with an interest in postphenomenology and its connection to STS studies. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Medicine, Culture and Society All graduate programmes Language English but individual supervision advice is offered in Danish Form Lectures, presentation of projects, play with cases in social drama. The students will be asked to read course material in advance. Course director Jan Kyrre Friis, associate professor, STF, IFSV, SUND, KU, jkof@sund.ku.dk Teachers Distinguished Professor Emeritus Don Ihde, Stony Brook University, New York. Professor Cathrine Hasse, School of Education, Aarhus University, DK Associate professor Jan Kyrre Friis, STS, IFSV, CSS, SUND, University of Copenhagen, DK Dates 11 -12 April 2018 Both days day 10-17 With possibility to attend a self-paid dinner the first evening 18-22 Course location CSS, SUND, KU. room 2.2.55 Registration Please register before 15 February , 2018. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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