[EASST-Eurograd] SD Conference 2026 - CfA - Rethinking Care and Learning Within the Posthuman Turn
Letizia Zampino via Eurograd
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder of the call for abstracts for our panel at the conference
Learning for Democracy, Democracy for Learning,
to be held in Rome (Sapienza University of Rome), 1–4 September 2026.
Panel: Rethinking Care and Learning Within the Posthuman Turn
Adaptive learning, robotic surgery and algorithmic decision-making represents examples of non-human actors embedded in clinical and learning environments. This panel explores how educational institutions and healthcare systems can engage with these transformations and contribute to envisioning a democratic future of care within an emerging posthuman context.
We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions on topics including:
- Critical data practices and ethical awareness in healthcare training and medical education;
- Professional authority and autonomy within hybrid environments (e.g., clinical or leaning robot collaboration).
- AI-based technologies within higher education, healthcare systems and welfare environments;
- Accountability when errors or outcomes are produced by the entanglement of human and non-human agents in diagnosis or assessment.
- Care and learning as practice enacted, perceived, and reshaped by screens, sensors, robotics and algorithms.
Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2026.
Useful links:We encourage you to submit a proposal and to share the call with interested colleagues.
Best regards,
Assunta Viteritti, Ludovica Rubini, Letizia Zampino