Dr Michael J. Thatemthate@princeton.eduResearch Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton University
Michael Thate has a diverse background in law (Northwestern), design (MIT), ethical philosophy and religious studies (Durham), and GIS (Alaska Fairbanks). He has held fellowships and lectureships at Yale, Harvard, and l’ENS, Paris. He spent three years at Universität Tübingen as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Author of two monographs, Remembrance of Things Past? (2013) and The Godman and the Sea (2019), Michael has also co-edited four volumes and written widely on suicide, A.I. regulatory challenges, political philosophy, imaginaries of labor, time, and money, the second space age, the attention economy, design thinking, and business ethics. Current projects include Scented Life: a text on olfactorial difference and the definitional ambiguities of “life” and "death" across the biological sciences and within legal system. Another text in preparation, Natural Prayers of the Soul, engages ecologies of attention, technologies of persuasion, and privacy law.
Prof. Paul Pettitt FSApaul.pettitt@durham.ac.ukProfessor of Archaeology, Durham University
Paul Pettitt is an archaeologist specialising in the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic periods, with particular interests in the origin and nature of Palaeolithic art, evolutionary thanatology, and the early evolution of mortuary activity. In addition to numerous articles on wide-ranging topics such as cave art and iconic depiction, 'ancient senses', cognitive archaeology, the origins of visual/symbolic culture, and a pre-historian's perspective on psychology and antiquity, Paul's major works include Britain's Oldest Art: the Ice Age Cave Art of Creswell Crags (2009); The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial (2011); The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World (2012); and a forthcoming volume on Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting our Origins (2024). Since 2021, Paul has served as Chair of the SapienCE Centre, University of Bergen, an internationally leading Centre for research into human behavioural evolution. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in 2009.
Dr Brenda Mathijssenbrenda.mathijssen@rug.nlAssociate Professor of Geography and Psychology of Religion, University of Groningen
Dr Tom Widgertom.widger@durham.ac.ukAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Durham University
Dr Hannah Rumblehr306@bath.ac.ukSenior Research Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
Dr Abigail McNivenabigail.mcniven@phc.ox.ac.ukSenior Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Dr Guido Furciguido.furci@sorbonne-nouvelle.frProfessor of Comparative Literature, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Dr Jonathan Clinchjclinch@ram.ac.ukLecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, University of London
Dr George Gazisg.a.gazis@durham.ac.ukAssistant Professor in Classics and Greek Literature, Durham University
Dr Marianna Zanettamarianna.zanetta@gmail.comJapan Soul Traveler
Prof. David Jenkinsjenkindavid@gmail.comProfessor Emeritus of Pathology, University of Nottingham
Mr Matteo Maccariomatteo.maccario@network.rca.ac.ukPluvo
Mr Arthur Gouillartarthur.gouillart@network.rca.ac.ukInteraction Design + Engineering
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