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Andrew Feenberg
Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the
Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He has also taught for many years
in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University, and at Duke
University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Universities of
California, San Diego and Irvine, the Sorbonne, the University of
Paris-Dauphine, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the
University of Tokyo. {read entire bio}
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Gabrielle Hecht
Gabrielle Hecht is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her book The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity (MIT 1998) won awards from the American Historical Association and the Society for the History of Technology, and will appear in a second edition in 2009. Her talk draws from her current project on Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things, based on archival and field work conducted in Africa, Europe, and North America.
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Rebecca Herzig
Rebecca Herzig is Associate Professor and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College. A specialist in nineteenth-century U.S. history, she serves as a member of several international editorial and executive boards, including the executive councils of the Society for the History of Technology and the International Committee for the History of Technology. Her writings appear in a range of journals including The Lancet, Feminist Theory, Social Science & Medicine, and American Quarterly. Her most recent book, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America, was published in 2005 with Rutgers University Press. She is currently at work on her next monograph, a history of techniques of body care tentatively titled The Affliction of Freedom.
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Ravi Rajan
Ravi Rajan is Provost of College Eight, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His book, Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-development, 1800 – 1950, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006 and re-published as a paperback by Orient Longman in 2007. He is currently completing two books: Sustenance, Security and Suffrage: Environmental Justice and Quality of Life; and Impurity and Danger: An Essay on Risk, Disaster, and the Environment. He has also edited five anthologies, and published several academic papers. Rajan’s public service includes the Presidency of the Board of Directors of Pesticide Action Network, North America (PANNA); Board service for the International Media Project, which produces the weekly radio news program, Making Contact; and membership of the city of Santa Cruz’s Green Building Committee. He co-founded the Bhopal Group for Information and Action, a documentation and information center on the gas disaster, in 1985, and served on the core group of the Indian environmental action group, Kalpavriksh, during the 1980s. In addition to his scholarly work, Rajan also writes periodic essays in the popular news media. His paper draws from an NSF funded project, entitled Ecologies of Hope, which he conducted with six graduate students over the past five years.
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Jessica Riskin
Jessica Riskin teaches in the History Department at Stanford University. Her research interests include Enlightenment science, politics and culture and the history of scientific explanation. She is the author of Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (Chicago, 2002) and editor of Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (Chicago, 2007). She is currently writing a book on the animal-machine – technology, philosophy, physiology, culture and politics – from Descartes to Darwin. The book's working title is Mind Out of Matter.
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Fred Turner
Fred Turner is an assistant professor of Communication at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication at UCSD. Before coming to Stanford, he taught Communication at MIT and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has written two books, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago, 2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor Books, 1996; 2nd ed. University of Minnesota Press, 2001). Before he became a professor, he worked as a journalist in Boston for ten years. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Nature. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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