#Disaster #History #Anthropocene #Risk #Policy #Technology #COVID

Scott Gabriel Knowles is a historian of disaster worldwide. He focuses on the historical processes that make disasters possible, and the application of history to reduce future disasters. Since March of 2020 Knowles has hosted #COVIDCalls every weekday, a live podcast discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is publication series co-editor (with Kim Fortun) of "Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster" with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

He was (2019) a research fellow of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. He has previously been a research fellow or visiting faculty member of CIGIDEN/Catolica Chile (2018), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2016), the Rachel Carson Center (2016), and the University of Tokyo (2015).

His work on the history of risk and disaster has appeared in the Natural Hazards Observer, History and Technology, Journal of Policy History, American Scientist, Technology and Culture, and Engineering Studies—he has also written for the The Hankyoreh, New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, Conservation Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Hill. Knowles is completing two new books: The United States of Disaster; and, Slow Disaster.

Website: https://slowdisaster.com/

Knowles 416 Presentation Disaster Haggyo

#Waste #Material Politics #Slow Disaster #Anthropocene #Environmental Justice

Hyunah is interested in the materiality, and socioeconomic/environmental impacts of wastes. During her master, she did internship in the Jordan Program of Global Green Growth Institute, working remotely at the Seoul Headquarter. With this experience, she became more interested in the contemporary and practical issues around wastes. She wrote her master’s thesis in particular about plastic wastes during COVID-19 in South Korea, to investigate different practices to regulate or promote the use of plastic from the perspective of slow disaster. Throughout doctoral program, she wants to expand her research fields into revealing unequal relationships around waste, and its impacts on different beings, not just humans but also non-humans. Also, she is very keen to learn various skills (e.g. filming, making podcasts) which can transgress the boundary between academia and public.

#Disaster #Environmental history #Anthropocene #Multispecies studies (Human-nonhuman entanglement) #Justice

Hyeonbin majored in physics during undergraduate and Master's programs. However, any kinds of social and environmental disasters have attracted him and made him jump into STP. Hyeonbin is interested in how disaster shapes the world. Now he wants to expand his interest in the relation between nature, culture, disaster, and science in the urban and environmental history within the Anthropocene. He also wants to develop a way of living together with various humans and nonhumans caring for each other. He is looking forward to learning these from and with STP members.

#Smart city #Resilience #More-than-human studies #Everyday practices

During her bachelor's and her first master’s degree in Geography and Urban Planning at two different French universities, Joëlle had the opportunity to focus on the relationship between technology and human beings through the question of digital communities and their ability to interact with territories. She joined STP to further develop her interest in the intertwined relationship between technology and territories and worked in the transformation of everyday practices in smart cities during her master’s degree at STP. Her current research interests include cities and resilience, as well as cities and disaster, in Korea and in France.

#Feminist-STS #Disaster Studies #Field Studies #Memorial #Justice #Sewol Ferry Disaster #Local context #Labor #Pohang City

Seulgi contemplates about situated cognition and based on this self-awareness, she wants to add more power to institutionalizing the perspective of justice. Seulgi studied chemistry in her undergraduate so is accustomed to the cognitive framework in which each element is combined to create a new substance. Seulgi wants each of the agent in the world to have their own share and harmonize. Seulgi is interested in the process of expanding what is perceived as others, such as women, cyborgs, and nature, and working with them to expand the horizon of cognition. She is interested in keywords such as feminism STS, Anthropocene and locality. Her goal is to weave an alternative story of how to live together in a precarious world.

Anastasiia 

Master's Student 

Ha min Jung

Undergraduate Student