[PHILOS-L] Online Workshop | DEMENTIA AND CARE: THINKING BEYOND PERSONHOOD? | 19 June 2026

[Federico Zilio]

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We are pleased to announce the following online workshop:

DEMENTIA AND CARE: THINKING BEYOND PERSONHOOD?
19 June 2026 – Online

This workshop is part of the project MyRobot – Human-Robot Interaction with older adults suffering from dementia: Sociocultural and gender differences and ethical and professional implications in the use of companion robots, coordinated by Blanca Deusdad and Fernando Vidal, and supported by grant PID2023-147169NB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

PROGRAMME
9:00–9:15 | Welcome & Introduction
9:15–10:00 | Federico Zilio – Which Person? Philosophical Paradigms of Personhood in Dementia Care
10:00–10:45 | Annette Leibing – Against Personhood in Dementia Care: Alienation as a Shift of Attention
11:00–11:45 | Nik Brown & Daniel Robins – Queering Care and Reimagining Personhood: A Possible Posthumanist Sociology of Healthcare Robots in Dementia Care Settings
11:45–12:30 | Martin Chevallier – Infusing an animal robot with personhood? Caregivers' contribution to bonding with a demanding creature
13:30–14:15 | Blanca Deusdad, Marija Djurdjevic & Fernando Vidal – Preliminary findings from the ethnographic study MyRobot
14:15–15:00 | Mariam Nofiss – Autonomy and Authenticity in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease: A Relational Caring Approach
15:15–16:00 | Matthew Wolf-Meyer – Neurological Process versus Neurological Capacity: Two Problems for a Disability-Based Affective Bioethics
16:00 | Discussion

Poster, link, abstracts and speakers' biographies are available at:
🔗 https://www.antropologia.urv.cat/en/agenda/12225/dementia-and-care-thinking-beyond-personhood

Organized by Annette Leibing (Université de Montréal), Fernando Vidal (ICREA / Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Federico Zilio (University of Padua).

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