Speakers & Artists

Assistant professor of environment and sustainability, University at Buffalo

William Shakespeare Professor of English; director, Center for Environmental Studies, Rice University

Professor of zoology, Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics, University of Manchester (U.K.)

Poet

President, Rice University

Professor of the history of science; associate dean for People, Culture and Inclusion, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex (U.K.)

Interim Scientia Institute director (2023–2024); professor of physics and astronomy and of chemistry, Rice University

Professor of anthropology; co-director, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Rice University

Associate professor of communication and science studies, University of California, San Diego

Smith Family Professor of History, Princeton University

Associate professor of pathology and bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University

Dean’s Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Anthropology, Brown University

Artist and technologist; assistant professor of design, The University of Texas at Austin

Co-founder and CEO, Circe

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University

Associate professor of history; co-director, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Rice University

Senior editor for biomedicine, MIT Technology Review

Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences, Rice University

Stewart Memorial Professor of BioSciences; director of Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Program, Rice University