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By Burak Taşdizen As part of the “Knowledge Unbound” TM 2c IRSSC project, an internal workshop titled “Technology and the Body: Care, Empowerment and the Fluidity of Bodies” was held at the Orient-Institut Istanbul on 21 January 2020. The workshop brought together two research areas of the institute, namely, “Human, Medicine and Society” and “Study of Religions”, each with a distinctive approach to the study of body.[caption id="attachment_2056" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Melike Şahinol and Burak Taşdizen welcome the audience. Picture: Yağmur Genç[/caption]The workshop involved 13 participants includingresearchers, artists and locals (from Turkey and Iran) of diverse backgroundsfor a fruitful exchange of knowledge and expertise on the IRSSC project. Theresearch areas of the participants span from sociology of medicine to study ofreligions, from sociology of Middle East to masculinity studies and disabilitystudies in feminist technoscience.Following the welcoming speech by Dr. MelikeŞahinol and Burak Taşdizen, the following presentations were made:Robert Langer (Orient-Institut Istanbul) Empowerment by Flagellating Your Body? Shii-Muslim Adolescents' Muharram Rituals in GermanySetareh Fatehi (DAS graduate school, Netherlands) swim\او : projection and care of/for the live body imageShahrzad Irannejad (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany) Balanced Bodies: Humoral Medicine in Contemporary IranAzam Naghavi (Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Iran) Compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction: The experiences of mother caregivers of a child with disabilityMelike Şahinol (Orient-Institut Istanbul) 3D-printed Prosthesis and Empowerment in the ChildhoodBurak Taşdizen (Orient-Institut Istanbul) Posthuman Feminist Theory: Body Modification and Empowerment[caption id="attachment_2065" align="aligncenter" width="211"] Workshop Program[/caption]