Taking Nature Seriously
1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1201
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Keynote
Speakers
Donna
Haraway | Richard
Lewontin | Mary
O'Brien | Andrew
Pickering
All Keynote
Addresses will be held in
EMU Ballroom
Donna Haraway
"From Cyborgs to
Companion Species: Kinship in
Technoscience"
Professor of History of
Consciousness and Women's Studies at UC Santa
Cruz
Research and Teaching
Interests: Feminist theory, historical and cultural
studies of modern science and technology, relation of
life and human sciences
Selected
Publications:
Haraway, Donna.
Modest_Witness@Second_
Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse. New
York: Routledge, 1996
---. Universal Donors
in a Vampire Culture: It's All in the Family.
Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth
Century, in Uncommon Ground: Reinventing Nature, W.
Cronon, ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. pp.
321-66.
---. The Promises of
Monsters: Reproductive Politics for
Inappropriated/d Others, in Cultural Studies, L.
Grossberg, C. Nelson, and P. A. Treichler, eds. New
York: Routledge, 1992. pp. 295-337.
---. Simians, Cyborgs,
and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free
Association Books; New York: Routledge,
1991.
---. Primate Visions:
Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern
Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.
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Richard
Lewontin
"The
Interpenetration of Environment and
Organism"
Alexander Agassiz
Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative
Zoology
Member of the Faculty of Public Health in the
Department of Population Sciences, and
Professor of Biology at Harvard University
Research and teaching
interests: Include theoretical and experimental
population genetics, in particular the assessment of
genetic variation in natural populations by molecular
methods and an understanding of the forces operating
on this variation using theoretical and computer
models. His laboratory work explores a variety of
organisms, including various insects, other
invertebrates, and plants.
Selected
Publications:
Lewontin,
Richard. It Ain't Necessarily So: The
Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions. New
York: New York Review of Books, 2000.
---. Biology as
Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. New York: Harper
Perennial Press, 1992.
---. Education and
Class: The Irrelevance of IQ Genetic Studies.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1986.
---. The Dialectical
Biologist. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1985.
---. The Genetic Basis
of Evolutionary Change. New
York: Columbia University Press,
1974.
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Mary O'Brien
"Contemplating
Impulse and Acting on Navels"
Mary O'Brien (Ph.D.,
Botany) has served as a public interest scientist with
grassroots organizations for the past 19 years, and as
an Assistant Professor (Public Interest Science and
Environmental Advocacy; 1992-1994)in the University of
Montana graduate Environmental Studies program. Her
work has focused on alternatives to toxics,
alternatives to risk assessment, conservation of Hells
Canyon (Oregon) native grasslands, citizen involvement
in science-based decisionmaking, and encouragement of
scientists to be advocates. Her book, Making Better
Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk
Assessment (MIT Press), was published in June
2000.
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Andrew
Pickering
"In the Thick of
Things"
Professor of Sociology
of Science and Technology at the University of
Illinois.
Research and Teaching
Interest: The interrelationships between science,
technology and society, with special reference to
warfare and industry.
Selected
Publications:
Pickering,
Andrew. The Mangle of Practice: Time,
Agency, and Science. Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 1995.
---, ed. Science as
Practice and Culture.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992.
---. Constructing
Quarks: A Sociological History of
Particle Physics. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1984.
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