Session 1

Ashlyn Sparrow works with students, faculty, and youth to lead in the development of serious games, interactive learning experiences and digital media. She is the Assistant Director of the Weston Game Lab at the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center at the University of Chicago.

Anne Flannery’s current projects include working with the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries on a pilot project for the Association of Research Libraries and the Oriental Institute’s Cultural Heritage Experiment.. She has held the position of Head of Museum Archives of the Oriental Institute since 2016. She is a Provenance Research and Exchange Program Fellow (2018) with the Smithsonian focusing on antiquities provenance during the Nazi era.

Kristen Schilt is the author of Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and her work has appeared in journals such as Gender & Society and the Annual Review of Sociology. She is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.

Sarah Fredericks’s research on religious environmental ethics has explored sustainability, energy, geoengineering, the Anthropocene, environmental guilt and shame, and environmental justice. She is the author of Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability: Ethics in Sustainability Indexes (Routledge, 2013) and numerous articles and book chapters. Fredericks is currently working a new book, Environmental Guilt and Shame, about the ethical dimensions of experiencing and inducing environmental guilt and shame particularly about climate change.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is completing a book manuscript on how climate change affects narratives of human history. One of his most recent publications is The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories (Oxford University Press, 2018), which received the 2019 Tagore Memorial Prize from the Government of West Bengal. Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago.

Patrick Jagoda is executive editor of Critical Inquiry, faculty director of the Weston Game Lab, and co-founder of both the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab. He is the author of Network Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and co-author of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer (MIT Press, 2016). His next book, Experimental Games, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.