Visiting Scholars

2013

Vanessa Brito de Jesus, Department of Science and Technology Policy, State University of Campinas, Brazil.

2010

Soyoung Park, Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Robin Downey, PhD in Communications Studies, University of Calgary, and Genomics and Society Advisor at Genome British Columbia.

2009

Clive Lawson, Fellow and Director of Studies at Girton College, Assistant Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge and Co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge, UK.

Maya Georgieva Ninova, Department of Social Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

2008

Neal Thomas, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Canada.

Andrea Rota, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, UK.

Hongpei Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Beijing, China.

2007

Nina Kahnwald, Department of Educational Technology and Media Design Center, Technical University, Dresden, Germany.

2006

Ajit Pyati, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Jack Post, Department of Literature, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

2005

Ajit Pyati, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

2004

Masumi Takeuchi, Sociology Department, St. Andrews University, Kyoto, Japan.

ACT Lab Seminar Speakers

2008

Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University.

2006

Walter Murch, Film Editor, Sound Designer, Director

Mark Poster, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine (Distinguished Speaker Series).

Robert Pippin, Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago.

2005

Marie Marchand, Computer Consultant, former head of Prospective Services for the French Telecom.

Graeme Kirkpatrick, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester, UK (seminar with the Games Lab group).

2004

Graham Parkes, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa.