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der internationalen und transdiziplinären Tagung Demokratisierung der Sinne – Sinnlichkeit der Demokratie. Emanzipation als Erfahrungen von Gleichheit in hierarchisch anders sensorischen Räumen

Sensing Democracy

Bettina Wuttig is a Professor at the Philipps-University of Marburg; she holds a chair in Psychology of Movement at the Department of Education; she is the founder of Soma Studies, an Area of Academic Study that explores somatic aspects of Subjectivation and the Entanglement of Bodies and Social Hegemony: her research interests are: Theory of Radical Democracy in Respect to the Configuration of the Senses, Gender-, Critical Whiteness- and Disability Studies, Human-Machine-Interactions in Movement Practices, (Auto-) Ethnographic Movement and Dance Research, Body Psychotherapy.

Crisis of the Senses: Delineating Democratic Possibilities through the Sensible

Susanna Trnka is a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Her work examines embodiment through a variety of lenses, including pain; political violence; respiratory health; movement; and, most recently, youth mental wellbeing. Her most recent book – Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic (2020) – is a phenomenological examination of movement.

Öffnung für Andere/s. Die Politizität sinnlicher Empfänglichkeit als bildungs- und demokratietheoretische Problemstellung

Carsten Bünger ist Professor für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Bildung und Gesellschaft an der PH Schwäbisch Gmünd. Thematisch arbeitet er zu Bildungsbedingungen der Demokratie, ethischen Problemstellungen des Pädagogischen sowie zu Kritik in erziehungswissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung. Er ist Mitherausgeber des Jahrbuch für Pädagogik. Nähere Infos: www.c-buenger.de<http://www.c-buenger.de

Seeing Disability Anew: ‘Blindness’, Disability, and the Democratization of the Senses in the Enlightenment

Mark Paterson is professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision, and Touch After Descartes (Edinburgh UP, 2016), and How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). His recent research involves the role of touch in human-robot interaction, and the short book Affective Touching: Neurobiology and Technological Applications (Cambridge UP, in press).For more, see sensory-motor.com<http://sensory-motor.com/>.

Multisensory Literacy as a Foundation of Democratic Education

Sachi Sekimoto is a professor and chair in the Department of Communication and Media at Minnesota State University. Her scholarship explores the intersections of culture, embodiment, and the senses in communication. She is a co-author of Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment (Routledge, 2020, with Christopher Brown) and a co-editor of Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (Sage, 2016, with Kathryn Sorrells) and a guest co-editor of Multimodality and Society for the special issue on race and multimodality (September 2023). She has written various journal articles and book chapters on questions related to the embodied politics of transnational gendered identity, the phenomenology of racialized embodiment, embodied ethics of sensory ethnography, and intercultural communication in global contexts. She is currently working on a book project on multisensory communication that attempts to rearticulate communicative practices and meaning making processes though the more-than-human ways of knowing.