Schedule

Breakfast and check-in

• “The Spirit of Asilomar”
  Luis Campos, Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology and Innovation, Rice University
• “The Human Drama of Asilomar: A Look Back — and Ahead”
  Michael Rogers, principal, Practical Futurist
• Coffee break at 10:35 a.m.
• “One Meeting, Many Meanings”
  Matthew Cobb, professor of zoology, University of Manchester (U.K.)
• “Charting the Ethical Frontier: Navigating Teleology in a Technocratic World”
  Shannon Nangle, co-founder and CEO, Circe
• Q&A and conversation

• “World Needs in 2050 and How Synthetic Biology Could Help
  Caroline Ajo-Franklin, professor of biosciences; director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute; Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar, Rice University
• “Synthetic Biology for Global Impact: Engineering Biology at Ginkgo”
  Patrick Boyle, head of Codebase, Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
• “Can It Change Global Governance?”
  Joy Zhang, professor of sociology; founding director, Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice, University of Kent (U.K.)
• “Hello, Is Dr. Frankenstein There?”
  Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, MIT Technology Review
• Q&A
• Film clip: “Reinventing the Dodo”
  Steven van Eekelen/Netherlands

• “Wastewater Surveillance in Houston, Texas: Navigating Science, Public Health and Ethics in the Era of Environmental Monitoring”
  Lauren Stadler, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, Rice University
• “Refusing the Smart City in Times of Platforms and Pivots”
  Lilly Irani, associate professor of communication and science studies, University of California, San Diego
• “Transnational and ‘Incidental’ Communications From the War on Drugs to 702”
  Matthew Jones, Smith Family Professor of History, Princeton University
• Coffee break at 10:20 a.m.
• “Mnemonic Flickerings: The Disappearances and Reappearances of the Memory of Mexico’s Disappeared”
  Sergio Beltrán-García, adjunct professor and co-director of re/presentare, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Q&A

Moderators:
Cymene Howe, professor of anthropology; co-director, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Rice University
Gökçe Günel, associate professor of anthropology; director of graduate studies, Rice University

• “Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Who Draws the Road Map?”
  Holly Jean Buck, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, University at Buffalo
• “Investments and Inheritances of Plastic”
  Heather Davis, program director and assistant professor of culture and media, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
• “‘Just Transition’ Within Global Climate Policy: The Genealogy of an Idea”
  Naveeda Khan, associate professor and chair of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
• “From Reduction To Regeneration: Beyond Carbon Fundamentalism In Climate Policy”
  Myles Lennon, Dean’s Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Anthropology, Brown University
• Coffee break at 3:35 p.m. and "A Taste of the Anthropocene (AToTA) " by Jiabao Li, Cooper Galvin, The Balloon Collective
• “Reindeer, Rockets and Oligoptic-Satellitarian Environments in Northern Sweden”
  Chakad Ojani, postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University

• Q&A