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See the 2017 Hixon Forum page for schedule and locations of events.

Morana Ala膷, University of California, San Diego

鈥淭he Mute Sense and Everyday Work in Olfactory Psychophysics鈥�

Ala膷 is associate professor in communication and science studies at UC San Diego. She conducts ethnographic research of scientific laboratories and other settings of technology production and use where she focuses on multimodal and multisensory aspects of ordinary interactional practice.

Filippo Bertoni, Aarhaus University

鈥淧lanetary Senses: Attending to the Sociotechnical Making of Earth鈥�

Bertoni received his PhD from Amsterdam University. His work鈥攊n the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene project and in an emergent creative research studio in Amsterdam鈥攆ocuses on biogeochemical articulations of the planetary, through a research practice that attends to contemporary shifts in sociotechnical assemblages and their historical flows, paying attention to the reciprocal transformations of the context and the content of scientific work.

Cristobal Bonelli

鈥淢aking Sense of Non-sense: Bodies, Absences and Socio-material Memory in Southern Chile鈥�

Bonelli is a senior researcher working in the intersection of clinical psychology, social anthropology, and science and technology studies. His research interests include healing, seeing and eating practices, as they connect (to) the materiality of the body and its memories. Thanks to a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship hosted by UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Bonelli鈥檚 research concerns how social relations are related to groundwater practices in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.

Jih-Fei Cheng, Scripps College

鈥淩ace, Texture, and Magnification in Twentieth-Century Virology鈥�

Cheng’s research examines the intersections between science, technology, media representations, and social movements. He utilizes interdisciplinary feminist and queer of color approaches, including visual, textual, and historical methods, to study activist uses of media to document, mobilize action, and leverage the survival chances of communities made vulnerable to illness through systemized health and economic disparities.

Marianne de Laet, 无忧视频

鈥淚n the Absence of Words鈥�

De Laet directs the Hixon Riggs program for responsive science and engineering. Her work on sensing follows two tracks: an interest in the connections between tasting and knowing, and current fieldwork on (among other things) the presence/absence of language in living with dogs.

Joe Dumit, University of California, Davis

“Fascia: Goopy, Viscous, Missing”

Dumit is professor of anthropology and the director for the Institute for Social Sciences at UC Davis. He studies how science and medicine change and how the lives of Americans, including consumers, patients, doctors and scientists also change as the nature of facts and evidence change.

Vivien Hamilton, 无忧视频

鈥淚nsensible Danger: Radiation Safety in American Hospitals鈥�

Hamilton is assistant professor of the history of science at 无忧视频. She studies how physics has gained cultural authority as well as scientific expertise during the twentieth century.

Rebeca Ib谩帽ez Mart铆n, University of Amsterdam

鈥淪howing, Seeing, Smelling: Exhibiting Waste Futures鈥�

Ilb谩帽ez Mart铆n is a researcher at the Health, Care and the Body research group in the University of Amsterdam. She is the editor of the book Cuerpos y Diferencias (Plaza y Vald茅s 2012) and author of the manuscript Bad to Eat? Empirical Explorations of Fats as Food (2014). She is studying an experimental nutrient recovery system from wastewater developed at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

Adam Johnson, 无忧视频

鈥淐ontamination: The Effect of the 1%鈥�

Johnson is professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd Collge. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of amino alcohol ligands with tunable steric and electronic properties in order to develop better organometallic catalysts for interesting organic transformations.

Alison Kenner, Drexel University

Workshop鈥� 鈥淏reathtaking Through Time鈥�

Kenner is assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Drexel University. She specializes in the study of contemporary health practices and how biomedical science and emerging technologies shape the way we understand and care for chronic disease conditions.

Jacob Lahne, Drexel University

鈥淢aking Sense: Sensory Valuation as a 鈥楽cience From Below鈥欌��

Lahne is assistant professor of culinary arts and sciences at Drexel University. He studies sensory perception and food preparation and consumption, with a focus on craft and artisan foods, home cooking and in vivo meals.

Rachel Mayeri, 无忧视频

奥辞谤办蝉丑辞辫鈥斺赌淲补濒办颈苍驳鈥�

Mayeri is a professor of media studies at Harvey Mudd where she teaches courses on animals, animated documentary, and the anthropocene. As a Los Angeles-based artist, she makes films for the nonhuman demographic, and video installations about mind-controlling parasites.

Christopher Nyerges

Nyerges is the author of multiple books, co-founder of the School of Self Reliance, and a renowned expert in foraging.

Heather Paxson, MIT

鈥淪ensing Food Risk at the Border鈥�

Paxson is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She is interested in how people craft a sense of themselves as moral beings through everyday practices, especially those activities having to do with family and food.

Laura Perini, Pomona College

鈥淰isual Evidence Beyond the Boundaries of Expert Vision鈥�

Perini is chair of philosophy at Pomona College and coordinator of the Science, Technology, and Society program at The Claremont Colleges. Her research focuses on the types of graphic representations used by scientists to communicate.

Madeline Schwartzman

“Parsons: the New School for Design”

Schwartzman is a New York City writer, filmmaker and architect whose work explores the human sensorium through social art, book writing, curating and experimental video making. Her book See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2011) collects fifty years of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses, and her forthcoming book, titled See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (Black Dog, February 2017), explores the future of the human head.

Nicholas Shapiro, Chemical Heritage Foundation

鈥淒econtamination Beyond the Chemical Register鈥�

Shapiro is a Matter, Materials and Culture Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and an Open Air Fellow at Public Lab. His research revolves around the complex figure of formaldehyde as a gateway to understanding common and caustic domestic chemical ecologies and the instruments through which such invisible realities are known.

Sergio Sismondo, Queen鈥檚 University

鈥淎nd Damn Near Died鈥�: From Sensorial to Statistical Styles of Medical Inquiry鈥�

Sismondo teaches at Queen鈥檚 University, Canada. His research is on the political economy of pharmaceutical knowledge, looking at relations between research and marketing in areas from clinical trials through medical education.

Christy Spackman, 无忧视频

鈥淟et鈥檚 Measure It: Hacking Gas Chromatography to 鈥業mprove鈥� Taste鈥�

Spackman is the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at 无忧视频. Her research examines the ways that the design and technological manipulation of sensory experience shape how people use, value and react to the ingestible environment.

Sharon Traweek, UCLA

Discussant

Traweek is associate professor of gender studies and history at UCLA. She is engaged in a multi-national collaboration developing digital archives and collecting oral histories among Japanese national laboratories with a focus on foreign and women scientists.

Dwight Whitaker

鈥淥range is the New Brown: Using an LCD Display to Experiment With Color Perception鈥�

Whitaker is associate professor of physics at Pomona College. His early research studied low-temperature physics and quantum fluids, but now Whitaker and his group investigate the biomechanics of seed and spore dispersal by plants. In his teaching on light and optics, Whitaker has also developed a keen interest in visual perception.

Emily Yates-Doerr, University of Amsterdam

鈥淰oices of Cortisol: Praxiographing a Concept鈥�

Yates-Doerr is assistant professor of anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and holds a three-year VENI innovational research grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) for the project 鈥淲hen Global Health Meets Local Development: A Case Study of the 鈥楩irst 1000 Days of Life鈥� Initiative in Guatemala.鈥�