Btihaj Ajana is running a session at the Science Gallery, London on AI and technologies of self-care. She discusses to what extent can self-tracking devices and apps be considered as tools of self-care, questioning whether self-tracking is a way of reclaiming autonomy and control over one’s health, or merely a form of outsourcing decision-making to technology itself.
More information available on: https://london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/ai-forum-self-care-and-ai-whos-in-control
Date: 28 Nov 2023
Venue: Science Gallery, London
Btihaj Ajana is delivering an online keynote for the 13th Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Sport Science.
More information available on: https://wp.unil.ch/congres4s2022/program/?lang=en
Date: 9 Feb 2022
Venue: Lausanne/online
Btihaj Ajana is delivering an online keynote for the Hong Kong-based Writing Machine Collective.
More details can be found on: http://www.writingmachine-collective.net/wmc_e7/online-keynote-presentation/#keynote-2
Date: 13 Sep 2021
Venue: Online
Btihaj Ajana is running a virtual workshop and delivering a talk as part of the Future of Indeterminacy events. More details can be found on: https://indeterminacy.ac.uk/virtual-workshops-with-rosa-menkman-and-btihaj-ajana/
Date: 20 Nov 2020
Venue: Online via University of Dundee
We would like to invite you to take part in this survey study on immunity in the context of Covid-19.
The purpose of this study is to examine public perceptions and understanding of “immunity” during Covid-19 pandemic and how these influence behaviour and acceptance or rejection of protective measures such as lockdown, social distancing, self-isolation, mask wearing, and Contact Tracing Apps.
We are recruiting adults (18 +) to complete a short survey on this topic. The survey takes approximately 10 mins to complete and your responses will remain confidential.
To take part, please follow this link: https://kclbs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBkSpkE1v5dhtiZ
Date: July 2020
Venue: International
Invited keynote talk at the Quantified Bodies congress, University of Coimbra. More details: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/thequantificationofbodies
Date: 28-30 Nov 2019
Venue: University of Coimbra
Invited talk by Btihaj Ajana at Health technologies in practice: between the home and the clinic, 19-20 June 2019, University of Sheffield.
Date: 19-20 Jun 2019
Venue: University of Sheffield
Btihaj Ajana is an invited speaker at The Cheltenham Science Festival for the event, “1984 Revisited”: https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2019/george-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-revisited/
Date: 6 Jun 2019
Venue: Cheltenham Science Festival
Btihaj Ajana is an invited keynote speaker at the Digital Government 2019 conference, more details here: https://digital-government.co.uk/agenda/
Date: 22 May 2019
Venue: Queen Elisabeth II Centre, London
Invited keynote talk by Btihaj Ajana at The Futures of eHealth conference, Berlin, 29-30 April 2019. More details: https://www.hiig.de/en/events/ehealth2019/
Date: 29-30 Apr 2019
Venue: Berlin
Invited keynote talk by Btihaj Ajana at The Age of Sharing?, University of Koblenz, 20-22 March 2019. More details: https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/landau/fb6/philologien/anglistik/Page/Research/theageofsharing/taosprogramme
Date: 20-22 Mar 2019
Venue: University of Koblenz
Screening of the film Quantified Life and Q&A session exploring whether our bodies exist as systems to be optimised and improved, with Btihaj Ajana and Thomas Blomseth Christiansen. More details here: https://london.sciencegallery.com/events/spare-parts-friday-late-unbreakable
Date: 15 Mar 2019
Venue: London Science Gallery
Btihaj Ajana was invited participant at Cognitive Sensations: Attention and Memory in the Digital Age, The Cube, London, 22 January 2019. More details: https://www.thecubelondon.com/portfolio/attention-memory-technology/
Date: 22 Jan 2019
Venue: The Cube, London
Btihaj Ajana was guest on BBC Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, discussing how our lives are becoming unceasingly ruled by metrics. Recording of this episode is available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001l85
Date: 19 Dec 2018
Venue: BBC, London
A keynote talk by Btihaj Ajana at Is Big Data a New Medium? Interdisciplinary Symposium, LaSalle College, Singapore, 7-8 May2018. More details: https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/big-data-new-medium
Date: 7-8 May 2018
Venue: LaSalle, Singapore
