ROUNDTABLE SEMINAR - Interdisciplinary discussions on technology

In connection with the PhD-defense for Rebekah Cupitt we are holding a roundtable seminar at MID, CSC. The faculty opponent along with members of the evaluation committee have agreed to share some observations and thoughts in relation to their current research agendas. The roundtable will address a wide variety of topics, mirroring the diversity of disciplinary perspectives represented in the committee and the opponent, from anthropology and deaf studies, to science and technology studies, communication studies, and design. The format of the roundtable will be an informal talk based on the suggestions made by the participants.

Participants (in alphabetical order)

Mathias Broth , Culture & Communication, Linköping University
TBA (relating to discourse analysis and video analysis)

Laura Forlano , Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Posthuman design, futures and utopias.

Sabine Höhler , Science and Technology Studies, KTH
Technological infrastructures' impacts on human perceptions from a history of science and STS perspective. Monitoring and observation technologies, data accumulation, processing, translation, imaging and environmental perception.

Karen Nakamura, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Transsexuality, eugenics, and disability in Japan. 

Laura Watts , IT University, Copenhagen
Making ‘defiant’ technology futures at the edge, futures without hubris. Marine renewable energy in the Orkney Islands.