Thursday, 30 Mar 2006
Terror, Violence and the Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective - Neil L. Whitehead
Neil L. Whitehead is the author of Violence: Poetics, Performance and Expression; In Darkness and Secrecy; Dark Shamans; Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death; and Beyond the Visible and the Material, among others. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and received his doctorate from Oxford.
Deeper than a Digital Divide: Women, Welfare and the 'High-Tech' Economy - Virginia Eubanks
Virginia Eubanks is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her doctorate in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 2004. Prior to her graduate work, she wrote and edited the cyberfeminist 'zine Brillo and was active in the community media and technology movements in the Bay Area of California.