Previous Hennebach Program in Humanities Activities

2007-2008

	George Saunders (Syracuse University) “Live Brain Readings without a Megaphone”
	Hunter Lovins (Natural Capitalism Solutions) “Drivers of Change: The Business Case for Sustainability and Protecting Climate”
	René von Schomberg (European Commission, Brussels) “Science Policy in the European Union: An Informal Overview at Fifty from the Inside”
	Topi Heikkerö (University of Helsinki, Finland) “Science and Technology Policy in Nordic Countries”
	Gustavo Esteva (Universidad de la Tierra, Mexico) “To Think All Over Again: Political Options in Latin America”
	John Herlihy (Petroleum Institute, Abu Dabi) “The Meaning of Faith: An Islamic Perspective”
	Beverly Sauer (Georgetown University) “Creating ‘Authorized Persons’: Capturing Local Knowledge in Automated Mining Systems”

2006-2007 - Opportunities for Public Policy Work at the Colorado School of Mines

	Daniel Sarewitz (Arizona State University) “The Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, and What It Might Mean for CSM”
	Genevieve Maricle (University of Colorado, Boulder) “A Policy Spectrum Overview”
	Radford Byerly (University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Political Perspective on Policy”
	Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado, Boulder) “A Scientist’s Perspective on Policy”
	Frank Laird (University of Denver) “Policy Complexes”
	Robert Frodeman (University of North Texas) “Getting the Humanities Involved in Policy”
	Philip Dunoyer (TOTAL America) “What Corporations Need”
	Tom Petrie (Petrie & Parkman) “What Consultants Need”
	Rich Mignogna (Colorado Public Utilities Commission) “What Government Agencies Need”
	David Hiller (Office of Senator Ken Salazar) “What Politicians Need”
	Doug Arent (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) “The NREL Strategic Energy Analysis Center”
	George William Sherk (Visiting Hennebach Scholar) “Running from the Boyne”
	Dennis Warner (Catholic Relief Services) and Candance Warner (Friends of Tanzania) “Humanitarian Engineering: Engagement for the Global Good”
	John Hampsey (California Polytechnic University) “Techné and the Liberal Arts”
	Daniel Callahan (Hastings Center for Bioethics) “Medicine and the Myth of Progress”

2005-2006 - The Monster Theory of Technology

Martijntje Smits (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands)
“Taming Monsters”
“Dikes, Nuclear Reactors and Genes”
“From Da Vinci to Zaretsky (Who?)”

2004-2005 - Humanities Perspectives on Science and Technology

	Roger Pielke, Jr. (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Improving the Connections of Climate Research and Policy”
	Suzanne Moon (Colorado School of Mines) “Colonial Politics of Science and the Environment”
	Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines) “Bringing the Humanities into Interdisciplinary Environmental Problem Solving”
	Frank Laird (University of Denver) “Energy and the Environment”
	Tina Gianquitto (Colorado School of Mines) “‘The Pressure of Hidden Causes’: The Environmental Imagination in America”

2003-2004 - Violence, Imagination, and Modern Literature

Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckard College)
“The Monster: Boredom and Sensitivity”
“The Horror! Mister Kurtz in the Congo”
“Violence and Technology in the Great War”
“Shell Shock: Breakdown of the Mind in Europe”
“Aftermath: The Waste Land”

2002-2003 - Beyond the Conflict Thesis: The Co-Evolution of Science and Religion in the West

Richard Olson (Harvey Mudd College)
“Astronomy, Astral Religion and the Emergence of a Transcendental Divine in the Ancient Near East”
“Early Christianity and the Preservation and Promotion of Natural Knowledge”
“Christian Humanism and the Rise of ‘Modern’ Science”
“Mutual Aid: the Interplay of English Natural Theology and Natural Philosophy, c. 1590-1740"
“Science and Secular Religions in the Nineteenth Century”

2001-2002 - Border Crossings: Rethinking the Boundaries between the Earth/Environmental Sciences and Society

Robert Frodeman (University of Colorado)
“Corrosive Effects: Environmental Ethics and the Metaphysics of Acid Mine Drainage”
“The Places of Science: The Heavens, the Lab, the Field and the Screen”
“Hot and Bothered: The Philosophy of Global Climate Change”
“Engineering and the Limits of Knowledge”

2000-2001 - The Female Angle: Women’s Lives in Ancient Civilizations

Bella Vivante (Northern Arizona University)
“The Gifts of Worship: The Global Primacy of Female Divinity”
“Sanctifying Women’s Identity: Women’s Rites in Ancient Greece”
“Empresses, Queens, and Female Kings: Women Who Ruled”
“Babies, Weaving and Trade: How Women Lived”
“Women Warriors: Did Xena Exist?”
“In Her Own Voice: Women’s Poetry and Philosophy from Ancient Civilizations”

1999-2000 - The Cost of the Technologization of Life from a European Point of View

Daniel Cérézuelle (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, France)
“The Experiencee of Beauty in Nature and It’s anthropological Importance”
“From Development to Poverty: The Importance of Non-Monetary Resources”
“The Crisis of Education and the Importance of Informal Educational Processes”
“Development verses Environment: The Case of the Garonne River (France)”
“The Contemporary Cinema as Mirror of Our Technological Delusions: Introducing the Thought of Jean Brun”
“Nature and Freedom: Introducing the Thought of Bernard Charbonneau”

1998-1999 - Materials, Technologies and Social Context

Dorothy Hosler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Sound, Color, and Meaning in the Metallurgy of Ancient West Mexico”
“Pottery Production, Social Categories, and Meaning in Las Animas, Ecuador”
“The Archaeology of Metallurgy”
“Bronze Technologies and Social Power in Mesoamerican Prehistory”
“Technology and Origins of Early Mesoamerican Metallurgy”

1997-1998 - Rethinking Engineering Education and Technological Development

Willem H. Vanderburg (University of Toronto, Canada)
“Sustainable Development: Can We Engineers Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?’
“Environmental Sustainability: How We Can All Be Winners”
“Human Sustainability: Regaining Control”
“Cultural Factors: Is Our Faith in Technology Misplaced?”
“The Stakes of the Twenty-First Century”
“I Too Have a Dream: Implications for CSM”
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1996-1997 - Environmental Transforms

C. Stewart Gilmore (Wesleyan University)
“Tradition and Transformation in Classical Science”
“The Classical and Baconian Sciences and the Scientific Revolution”
“Transforming Growth in Science and Engineering”

1995-1996 - Thinking Ethics in Technology

Carl Mitcham (Pennsylvania State University)
“Engineering Ethics: Achievements and Challenges”
“Computers and Ethics: From Mainframe to the Information Highway”
“What Is the Problem of Technology — And What Can Be Done About It?”
“Deprivacy: The New Electronics and Genetics of the Public Self”
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