Keynote 2

Keynote 2: Professor Etienne Benson
18:00 – 19:15

Etienne Benson is associate professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published a number of studies on the history of techniques for studying, surveilling, and simulating the behaviors of nonhuman animals and ecosystems, including Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife. His most recent book is Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms, a study of various efforts to reimagine and rematerialize the concept of “environment” over the past two centuries.