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Call for Submissions: 3rd Open Strategy Workshop at University of Innsbruck

After the first two workshops gathering Open Strategy scholars took place in Zurich (2024) and Oxford (2025), we are excited to announce the 3rd workshop will be hosted by University of Innsbruck on June 25-26, 2026. The call for extended abstracts is already live. Your extended abstract should align with the general theme of Open Strategy and must not have been previously published. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to attend the two-day workshop in person and apply for poster presentations. To ensure high-quality exchanges and foster meaningful connections, on-site participation is limited.

Format: ~2000 words excl. references. Submitted abstracts should be double-spaced with 12 point font. The first page of your abstract should contain all author names and e-mail addresses.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2026 (23:59 CET).

Submission Process: Please submit your abstracts via this submission form. You will be informed about the decision of acceptances by mid-March. 

Workshop Registration: An accepted abstract is a pre-requisite for in person attendance and workshop participation. 

Presentations: Accepted abstracts will be invited to be presented in poster presentation sessions.

Paper Development Workshop (PDW): Similar to last year’s Oxford edition, we will offer a PDW for early career scholars. Details on the application procedure for the PDW will be announced at a later stage.

For more information on the event, check out the workshop website.

#3rdOpenStrategyWorkshop #CallForSubmissions #OpenStrategyWorkshop #universityOfInnsbruck

[Publication] Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer

The volume 3 n. 2 (2024) of the academic journal Re:visit – Humanities and Medicine in Dialogue has just been published. Based at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, the journal participates in the international debate within Medical Humanities, with articles in German and English. In this last volume, edited by Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll and Maria Heidegger, you can find my article “Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer“.

The article focuses on an analysis of the performance La Cura, by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, with the goal of highlighting the deep implications of their work in the effort of rethinking the relationship between culture, society, technology and biology, a task more necessary than ever in our digital societies.

Here is the abstract:

The experience of illness, as narrated by those who suffer from it, can provide significant insight for medical and health professionals, helping them to understand what their patient is going through, from a psychological and existential point of view. These narratives can also help to bridge the distance between science and experience, and to heal the gap that divides the sick person from the rest of society. The work that Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico have done with their performance La cura (The cure) – started when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012 – takes this kind of narrative and selfreflexive experience even further, in order to explore the relationship between culture, technology and biology, with the aim of redefining the meaning of cure (and, consequently, of illness and health) in a collective and inclusive way. La cura can thus be seen as a piece of work that, by belonging to the Medical Humanities, can also take a step forward in building a theoretical and practical dialogue between different disciplines in order to respond to the challenges of our digital (and biotechnological) society.

#Cancer #Cure #digitalHumanities #MedicalHumanities #OrianaPersico #ReVisit #SalvatoreIaconesi #UniversityOfInnsbruck

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#Archaeologists #UniversityofInnsbruck #Austria Unearth #Relic Possibly Linked To #Moses And #TheTenCommandments
1,500 years old
#Ivorybox with #Christianmotifs at a #church site
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/archaeologists-in-austria-unearth-relic-possibly-linked-to-moses-and-the-ten-commandments-6049267