20/05/2026
🧠 Dementia and Care: Thinking Beyond Personhood?
📅 19 June 2026
🌐 Online Workshop
How should we understand care for people living with dementia in today’s rapidly changing world? Can we move beyond traditional ideas of “personhood” to rethink relationships, ethics, and the role of technology in care?
This international workshop brings together leading scholars from medical anthropology, philosophy, and social sciences to explore innovative perspectives on dementia care. The event is part of the MyRobot research project, which examines human–robot interaction with older adults living with dementia, including its sociocultural, ethical, and professional implications.
👩🏫 Featured speakers include experts from institutions such as the Université de Montréal, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), University of Padua, and other international research centres.
🎯 Key topics include:
• Philosophical paradigms of personhood in dementia care
• Critical perspectives challenging traditional notions of identity
• Ethics, autonomy, and relational care approaches
• The role of healthcare robots and posthumanist perspectives
• Care practices and emotional bonding in human–technology interaction
🗓️ The workshop will feature a full day of presentations, discussions, and exchange, including contributions from renowned researchers such as Annette Leibing, Federico Zilio, Nik Brown, Martin Chevallier, Blanca Deusdad, and others.
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👉 Explore the full programme, abstracts, and speakers’ biographies:
🔗 https://www.antropologia.urv.cat/en/agenda/12225/dementia-and-care-thinking-beyond-personhood
👉 Dementia and Care, abstracts and speakers' biographies:
🔗https://agenda.urv.cat/media/upload/domain_2649/pdf/dementia-and-care-abstracts-and-bios_177868086382.pdf
👉 Direct access to the event (MS Teams): 🔗 https://bit.ly/dementia-and-care
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📌 This workshop is organized within the framework of the MyRobot Project (PID2023-147169NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union, in collaboration with the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC-DAFITS-URV).
