We are very pleased to confirm our keynote speakers for the workshop:
Rayvon Fouché
Director and Associate Professor, American Studies, Purdue University
Prof. Fouché is the author of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson (Johns Hopkins, 2004) and editor of the four-volume Technology Studies (Key Issues for the 21st Century) (SAGE, 2008). His current research project considers the interactions between technology and sport. See here for more details.
Shobita Parthasarathy
Associate Professor, Public Policy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Prof. Parthasarathy is the author of Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (MIT, 2012) and Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Her current research considers questions such as: How does social and political context shape the development and implications of science and technology? Why and how have citizens become more critical of scientific and technological development, and the institutions that govern it? How do scientific and other knowledge systems come into conflict in innovation and innovation policy, and what is the best way forward to maximize social benefit and ensure public legitimacy? How can our science and technology policy institutions better achieve the public interest, including social justice? See here for more details.