Don Ihde – Keynote Speaker

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Technoscience Research Group in the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University. A North American pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Ihde is the author of 13 books, including Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (1990) and Bodies in Technology (2002).

Presentation Title: “Do We Write?  Or, Are We Written? Embodiment and Writing Technologies”

Mary Catherine Bateson

Clarence Robinson Professor of Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Mary Catherine Bateson is a cultural anthropologist and the author of, among other books, With a Daughter’s Eye (1984), a memoir of her parents, Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead; and Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery (2004) <http://www.marycatherinebateson.com/>. 

 Presentation Title: TBA

C. A. (Chet) Bowers

Professor Emeritus and Courtesy Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, Chet Bowers is the author of 17 books on the connections between education, cultural ways of knowing, and the ecological crisis, including Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability (2000) <http://www.cabowers.net/>.

Presentation Title: “The Challenge Facing Educational Reformers: Making the Transition from Individual Intelligence to Ecological Intelligence”

Ursula Heise

Professor of English at Stanford University and Affiliated Faculty of the Woods Institute for the Environment, Ursula Heise is interested in postmodernization and globalization, ecology and ecocriticism, literature and science, and media theory. Her publications include Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (2008) <http://www.stanford.edu/~uheise/>.

Presentation Title:“Red List Blues: Databases and Biodiversity Loss”

Andrea Polli

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering at the University of New Mexico, and Director of the university’s Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program. Her work, presented in over 100 presentations, exhibitions, and performances, addresses issues related to global systems, the real-time interconnectivity of these systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals <http://www.andreapolli.com/>.

Presentation Title: “Breathtaking: Media and the Measuring and Modeling of Climate”