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Kelly Joyce is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. She published Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency (Cornell University Press, 2008) and articles in a variety of journals including Social Studies of Science, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Science as Culture. She is the co-editor of Technogenarians: Studying Health and Illness Through An Aging, Technology, and Science Lens (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010)—a book that takes up the aging, science, technology and health junction.
Sabine Maasen is a professor of science studies at the University of Basel. Her training is in sociology, psychology and linguistics, and she has held various positions in science management. Her research focus is in the domain of knowledge dynamics in science and society, predominantly based upon Foucauldian approaches. Among other things, she is concerned with effects of scientific knowledge on notions and practices of the social as well as on the individual. She has published several articles and books in the sociology of science and knowledge including
Biology as Society, Society as Biology. Metaphors (with E. Mendelsohn and P. Weingart, Kluwer 1994 as well as
Metaphors and the Dynamics of Knowledge, Routledge 2000, with P. Weingart) and
Die Genealogie der Unmoral. Therapeutisierung sexueller Selbste (Genealogy of the Immoral. Therapeutic Constructions of Sexual Selves; Suhrkamp 1998). Recently she published in the fields of the social construction volition and consciousness (e.g.,
Voluntary Action. On Brains, Minds, and Sociality, Oxford 2002, with W. Prinz & G. Roth;
On Willing Selves, with Barbara Sutter, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). The current research program is titled:
The brain and its society. An STS-perspective toward the neurosciences.
Patricia Pisters is professor of media culture and film studies and chair of the department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. She has published on film-philosophical questions on the nature of perception, the ontology of the image, on politics of contemporary screen culture and the idea of the “brain as screen” in connection to neuroscience. Publications include
The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003),
Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (ed. with Wim Staat; Amsterdam University Press, 2005) and
Mind the Screen (ed. with Jaap Kooijman and Wanda Strauven, Amsterdam University Press, 2008). During a fellowship at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg fur Kulturtechnikforshung und Medienphilosophie) of the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2010 she finished the manuscript of a book entitled
The Neuro-Image (forthcoming, Stanford University Press) about a new type of image in digital screen culture. In July 2010 she organized with Professor Rosi Braidotti the International Deleuze Studies Conference in Amsterdam on the (methodological) connections between art, science and philosophy, including a double exhibition and international public debate on this topic (
www.deleuze-amsterdam.nl) and (
www.thesmoothandthestriated.wordpress.com).
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Nikolas Rose is the Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Director of LSE's BIOS Research Centre, and Chair of the European Neuroscience and Society Network. His forthcoming book, Neuro - the new brain sciences and the remaking of the human - written with Joelle Abi-Rached, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011.
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Jonathan Rowson is Senior Researcher at the RSA, where he leads the Social Brain Project. Jonathan holds a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University, an Ed.M from Harvard University in Mind, Brain and Education, and a PhD from Bristol University. His Doctoral thesis is an inter-disciplinary and multi-method examination of the concept of wisdom, including a detailed analysis of the challenge of overcoming the psycho-social constraints that prevent people becoming 'wiser'. A chess Grandmaster, Jonathan was British Champion for three consecutive years 2004-6, and is the author of three best selling books on the game. Jonathan views chess as a form of praxis through which we come to better understand our own minds. He has been an invited speaker at several International Conferences on Learning, Thinking, and Sport, and has featured on BBC Radio and Television.
Steve Woolgar is Professor of Marketing and Head of Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Steve has published widely in science and technology studies, social problems and social theory. He is currently conducting a project on Neuromarketing with Tanja Schneider that will examine practices and claims made by some neuroscientists and market researchers that they are able to target products and services to consumers based on detection of brain activity. His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish. In 2008 he was named winner of the J. D. Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
Paul Wouters is programme leader of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam (until 31 December 2010), and (since 1 September 2010) director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University and professor of scientometrics in Leiden. Paul is also professor of Knowledge Dynamics at the department of sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and visiting professor of Cybermetrics at the University of Wolverhampton, member of the Steering Committee of HASTAC —the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory in the US, and member of the National Advisory Panel of CLARIN-NL (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – Netherlands). He has published on the history of the Science Citation Index, on scientometrics and on the way the criteria of scientific quality have been changed by citation analysis. He is now focusing on the role of information and communication technologies in the practice of knowledge creation. He is particularly interested in the design and analysis of new scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences. His personal page is located at the Virtual Knowledge Studio www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl. He publishes a website about the future of research: www.researchdreams.nl and a blog about citation cultures http://citationcultures.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/