SLS 2001
Highlights



Plenary Speaker:
   Elizabeth Grosz, "Darwin and Ontology"
Elizabeth Grosz is Julian Park Professor of English and Comparative literature at SUNY/Buffalo, author of Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994), and Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (1995).


Featured Scholars:
  Karen Barad, "Digital Anatomies, Bodily Realities"
Karen Barad is a theoretical particle physicist and Chair of Women's Studies at Mount Holyoke. She is the author of numerous articles on physics, feminist epistemology, philosophy of science, cultural studies of science, and feminist theory, and is currently completing a book entitled Meeting the Universe Halfway.

Michael Lynch, "Bodies, Trace Evidence, and Procedural Accountability:
      The Continuity of Forensic Evidence"
Michael Lynch is Chair of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell, author of Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action: Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science (1993); co-author with D. Bogen, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (1996).
  David Wellbery, "Niklas Luhmann's Conceptual Design"
David Wellbery is LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies at theUniversity of Chicago; author of The Specular Moment: Goethe's Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism (1998); co-editor, with Nancy Kaiser, Traditions of Experiment: Essays in Honor Peter Demetz (1992)..