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STEVEN CONNOR, CENTER DIRECTOR, CAMBRIDGE 1000 690 Una Yeung

STEVEN CONNOR, CENTER DIRECTOR, CAMBRIDGE

To be human is to use tools, and we have always been homo technicus. We aim in CRASSH to make sense of the new ways in which, acting on the world through new technologies, we also remake ourselves.

Thomas Carlson
Thomas A. Carlson, Center Director, Santa Barbara 1000 690 domonda

Thomas A. Carlson, Center Director, Santa Barbara

To answer the spiritual emptiness of consumer culture, reactive extremism in religion and politics, and radical transformations of life by technology, we need the humanities.

Francesca Tarocco, Board Member, Venice 792 715 Barbara Del Mercato

Francesca Tarocco, Board Member, Venice

As  a scholar of Asian Studies, I am deeply invested in collegial work that has the potential to have an impact across disciplinary, regional and national boundaries within Asia and beyond. At the Center for Humanities and Social Change, I am committed to nourishing projects and collaborations that critically examine the radical interconnectedness of the modern world and illuminate our multiple configurations of place, time, matter and meaning.

Ulf Bohmann, Berlin 1024 682 Susann Schmeisser

Ulf Bohmann, Berlin

Democracy is in peril. The scope and severity of the present predicament has reached an unforeseen level. We need proper theories to grasp this multi-layered crisis adequately.

UNA YEUNG, CENTER ADMINISTRATOR, CAMBRIDGE 1000 690 Stefanie Ullmann

UNA YEUNG, CENTER ADMINISTRATOR, CAMBRIDGE

In an age of rapid technological and social change we find ourselves at a crossroads. The center’s interdisciplinary teams are engaged in groundbreaking research, seeking answers that will guide us along the right path. I am excited to be a part of this initiative.

Volkan Çıdam, Berlin 1024 683 Susann Schmeisser

Volkan Çıdam, Berlin
William E. Goggin
William E. Goggin, Dissertation Fellow 2017/18, Santa Barbara 1000 690 domonda

William E. Goggin, Dissertation Fellow 2017/18, Santa Barbara

Dramatic social change presents an interpretive challenge: a gap between changes occurring in society, and our ability to assess the significance of those changes. We want to interrogate that gap.

Zeynep Gambetti, Senior Fellow, Berlin 1024 683 Nina Rismal

Zeynep Gambetti, Senior Fellow, Berlin

If history is valuable for understanding fascism, it is not because it enables us to describe what happened, but rather because it allows us to deduce from a specific combination of elements the effects that similar constellations are likely to produce today.

Zoë Sutherland
Zoë Sutherland, Dissertation Fellow 2017/18, Santa Barbara 1000 690 domonda

Zoë Sutherland, Dissertation Fellow 2017/18, Santa Barbara

As poetic making informs how individuals come to know and value each other in the early modern period, so for me it opens up questions of freedom and equality in our own.