Spring 2016 Visiting Scholars
JANUARY 28-29, 2016 - Nikolas Rose (King’s College London)
Thursday, 1/28: 11am in Madison Union Ballroom - "The Human Sciences in a Biological Age: From Biology as destiny to biology as opportunity?"
Thursday, 1/28: 3:30pm in Madison Union Ballroom - "Governing (Through) The Brain: How Neuroscience moved from the lab to the world"
Friday, 1/29: 11am in Madison Union Ballroom - "Beyond the Mind-Brain Problem?" Problems and Perils of Intervening in the Human Brain
Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London. His work explores how scientific developments have changed conceptions of human identity and governance and what this means for our political, socio-economic and legal futures. Rose is a Co-director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (CSynBI), a major research collaboration between King’s and Imperial College London. Trained as a biologist, a psychologist and a sociologist, Rose co-founded two influential radical journals in the 1970s and 1980s, playing a key role in introducing French post-structuralist critical thought to an English speaking audience and helping develop new approaches to political analysis and strategy. He has published widely across numerous fields and disciplines, with work translated into 13 languages. He is a former Managing Editor of Economy and Society and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal, BioSocieties.
FEBRUARY 25-26, 2016
Diana Wall (Colorado State University)
Diana H. Wall is a University Distinguished Professor and Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. She is also a Professor of Biology and Senior Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at CSU. Diana is actively engaged in research to explore how soil biodiversity contributes to healthy, productive soils and thus benefits society, and the consequences of human activities on soil sustainability. Her global research includes more than twenty years of research in the Antarctic Dry Valleys examining how climate change affects soil biodiversity, ecosystem processes and ecosystem services. Wall Valley, Antarctica was named for her achievements in 2005.
Lecture @ 11 am, February 26. Madison Union Ballroom.
MARCH 24-25, 2016
Garry Hagberg (Bard College)
Garry L. Hagberg is an author, professor, philosopher, and jazz musician. He currently holds the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics. Previously, he held a chair in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Hagberg became a professor of philosophy at Bard College in 1990. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants from Dartmouth College; Cambridge University Library; Institute for the Theory and Criticism of the Visual Arts; British Library, London; St. John's College, and Cambridge University. At Bard, he teaches specialized courses on the philosophy of the arts and the history of aesthetic thought; the philosophy of language since 1900; pragmatism; and the development of twentieth-century philosophy, in addition to courses on issues and authors from Plato and Aristotle to the present day.
Lecture @ 10 am, March 25, Madison Union Ballroom.
APRIL 7-8, 2016
Joshua Greene (Harvard University)
Joshua Greene is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. He studies moral judgment and decision-making, primarily using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging (fMRI). Other interests include religion, cooperation, and the capacity for complex thought. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. In 2012, he was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and in 2013 he received Harvard’s Roslyn Abramson Award for teaching. Greene studied philosophy at Harvard (A.B., 1997) and Princeton (Ph.D., 2002), where he worked with David Lewis and Gilbert Harman. From 2002 to 2006 he trained as a postdoctoral researcher with Jonathan Cohen in the Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Lab and at the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, which is now the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
Lecture @ 11 am, April 8, room TBA.
