speakers

Joe Grand “Kingpin”
*Hardware Hacker - L0pht, Grand Idea Studio*

Joe Grand, also known as Kingpin, is a computer engineer, hardware hacker, product designer, teacher, daddy, occasional YouTuber, member of legendary hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries, and former technological juvenile delinquent.
**Meet him in-person at 42 Paris**

Justin Weinberg
*Associate Professor of Philosophy - South Carolina University / Daily Nous Editor*

Justin Weinberg is associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He teaches, writes, and speaks on a variety of topics in moral and political philosophy, including well-being, value, love, regret, offensiveness, social norms, political experimentation, and justice, as well as on the nature of philosophy itself. He is currently focusing on issues related to disagreement. Justin is also the founder and editor of Daily Nous, a popular news and discussion site for philosophers.

Idriss Juhoor
*Software Engineer - Google*

Idriss Juhoor started his career in France, later in China working on mobile apps when Apple released the iPhone 3G. He later focused on wireless technologies and wearables. Currently, Idriss works at Google in the Wear OS team in London, UK.
**Meet him in-person at 42 Paris**

Margarita Louca
*Senior Lecturer and Digital Lead for the Fashion Programme - Central St-Martins College of Arts & Design, University of the Arts, London*

Margarita Louca hosts a monthly NTS.live show called Don’t Trip. She was previously: Lecturer in Creative Communication for Fashion / Graphic Design @ University of the Arts London

She has—at different times—also been a Video Director & Editor, Creative Producer and Digital Content Producer working on projects for everyone from Artangel to Metallica and back.
**Meet her in-person at 42 Paris**

Silvana Fumega
*Director - Global Data Barometer*

Silvana Fumega holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania (UTAS) in Australia. She also holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (ARG) and a Master's in Public Policy from the Victoria University of Wellington (NZ).
She served as consultant for numerous international organizations, governments, and civil society groups. In recent years, she has focused her work on the intersection between data and inclusion as well as measurement tools. She currently acts as the Research and Policy Director of ILDA and the project director of the Global Data Barometer.

Michaël Halit

Analyst DLT Derivative Intelligence, former student at 42 Paris

Michaël Halit is a former student at 42 Paris, and a researcher in malware and threat detection. Then, he specialized in adversarial financial fraud detection. He’s an expert in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies.

Meet him in-person at 42 Paris

Philippe Bourgois
Professor of Anthropology & Director of the Center for Social Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences/Semel Institute of Neuroscience, R. & R. Walter Chair in Translational Psychiatry/Neurology, Joint-professorial appointments in Departments of Anthropology, Sociology - UCLA

Philippe Bourgois (PhD Anthropology) is a cultural and medical anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Belize) and in the urban United States (East Harlem--New York, San Francisco, North Philadelphia and Los Angeles). In Central America his research addresses the political mobilization of ethnicity, immigration, labor relations and the relationship between intimate violence and political/structural violence.
In the United States he focuses on the political economy of U.S. inner-city apartheid and the carceral and psychiatric management of poverty and unemployment. As a "public anthropologist," he tries to bring critical political economic social science theory to bear on urgent social problems and advance a theoretical understanding of the interface between social inequality and power and how it manifests in individual experiences of social suffering.
Currently Bourgois is publishing on incarceration, substance abuse, violence, homelessness, mental illness and HIV-prevention. With Laurie Hart-UCLA, George Karandinos-Harvard, Fernando Montero-Columbia he is co-authoring a book entitled "Cornered" (under contract with Princeton University Press) based on almost a dozen years of collaborative participant-observation fieldwork in a violently-policed, segregated Puerto Rican neighborhood dominated by open-air narcotics markets currently heroin/fentanyl in North Philadelphia.
With his colleagues at the Center for Social Medicine at UCLA he is leading the ethnographic component of a quality evaluation of a new outreach program for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health for people with serious mental illness--most of whom are homeless and trapped in chronic cycles of incarceration in the County Jail. His applied public health and social medicine research documents how macro-structural power relationships affect health and quality of life and how punitive law enforcement priorities have come to dominate the delivery of clinical and social services in the United States since the 1980s.
He has been the Principal Investigator on dozens of National Institutes of Health grants since 1996 including a 21-year continuous study of the inner-city HIV risk environment faced by indigent, street-based drug users and sellers. From an applied perspective, he is building a theory of "Individual Vulnerability in the US Inner-City Structural Risk Environment" to render more visible our understanding of how social inequality damages health and to help clinicians, front-line service providers and policymakers develop upstream interventions. He is dedicated to fomenting a more productive dialogue between qualitative, epidemiological and clinical approaches to a critical understanding of the social determinants of health and quality of life.
Read his publications for free on his website.

Claire Katz
Professor of Philosophy and Teaching, Learning, and Culture / Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching Affiliate of Religious Studies / Interim Department Head, Teaching, Learning, and Culture School of Education and Human Development / Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence / Piper Professor Director, Philosophy for Children Texas and the Aggie School of Athens Philosophy Camp for Teens - Texas A&M University

Claire Katz is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M, where she currently serves as Interim Department Head of Teaching, Learning, and Culture. She has been on the faculty since 2006, and prior to that she was an associate professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. From 2019-2022 she served as Associate Dean of Faculties/Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs. From 2010-2014 she served as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies (Texas A&M). In September 2020 she was named a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence (Texas A&M) and in May 2021 she was selected for a Piper Professorship.
A Baltimore native, she majored in philosophy at UMBC. She holds a Master’s of Arts in Teaching (teaching of philosophy to K-12 students) from Montclair State University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. She teaches and conducts research in two primary areas: (1) the intersection of philosophy, gender, education, and religion and (2) K-12 philosophy. At Texas A&M, she developed and piloted courses in Jewish philosophy, Philosophy and Gender, and K-12 Philosophy. In 2015, Dr. Katz launched a highly successful K-12 philosophy program, which includes three prongs: educator workshops for K-12 and university teachers/administrators, which have reached more than one hundred teachers and administrators throughout Texas; training for university students in facilitating philosophical discussions with pre-college students, which includes an undergraduate course that teaches students to teach philosophy to K-12 students; and developing and running a week-long philosophy summer camp (Aggie School of Athens) for 6th -12th graders, which attracts middle and high school students from communities across Texas and around the United States.
Her development of the pre-college philosophy program at Texas A&M, including the philosophy summer camp, has become leading model for pre-college philosophy programs nationally and internationally. Under her direction, P4C Texas and the Aggie School of Athens Philosophy Camp for Teens was awarded the 2020 APA/PDC prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. In 2016, Philosophy Ireland, Ireland’s pre-college philosophy program, appointed her an Ambassador. She held the Liberal Arts Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship (Texas A&M 2011-2015) and a Copeland Fellowship (Amherst College 2011-12) and was recently awarded a 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship (Texas A&M) and a 2023 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Residential Fellowship.
She has given more than 150 presentations nationally and internationally. A stalwart defender of the humanities, Dr. Katz presented on the value of the humanities for TEDx TAMU (2015) and in March 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the National Humanities Alliance. In addition to more than 70 journal articles and book chapters, Professor Katz is the author of three monographs: Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana 2003); Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism (Indiana 2013); and An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy (I.B.Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2014). She is the editor of the four volume Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments (with Lara Trout, Routledge 2005), Growing Up with Philosophy Camp: How Thinking Develops Friendship, Community, and a Sense of Self (Rowman and Littlefield, August 2020), and Philosophy Camps for Youth: Everything You Wanted to Know about Starting, Organizing, and Running a Philosophy Camp (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).
She is the recipient of the 2019 Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award (University Level) for Teaching and the 2019 American Philosophical Association Prize for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled, Radical Apology: Gender, Religion, and the Limits of Forgiveness (under advance contract with Indiana University Press) with a chapter devoted to The Chicks. A native of Baltimore, MD, she is loyal fan of the Baltimore Orioles.

Dan Conway

Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies, and Courtesy Professor in the TAMU School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service - Texas A&M University

A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Daniel Conway received his BA in Philosophy and Economics from Tulane University and his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He has held faculty appointments at Stanford University, Harvard University, Penn State University, and, since 2006, Texas A&M University, where he is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies, and Courtesy Professor in the TAMU School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service.

A former Head of Department, he currently serves the University as Arts and Humanities Fellow, Convener of the Working Group in Social, Cultural, and Political Theory, Liaison to the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and member of the Executive Committee of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

He also holds leadership positions in the Philosophy for Children initiative (P4C Texas) and the Space Governance Research Group.

Conway has lectured and published widely on topics in post-Kantian European philosophy, American philosophy, political theory, aesthetics (especially film and literature), ethics, religion, and genocide studies.

Thus far, he has published seventeen books and more than 150 articles in scholarly journals and edited collections. To date, he has delivered more than 250 lectures and conference papers, including invited presentations on six continents.

His research and teaching have been supported by competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the John Templeton Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (declined), the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The American Philosophical Association, the National Humanities Center, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, the Southeastern Conference, and the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Here at Texas A&M University, he has received competitive grants from the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President for Research, Undergraduate Studies, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the College of Liberal Arts, the Mays Innovation Research Center, the Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, the European Union Center, and the Office of the Dean of Faculties.

Conway currently serves the profession as a member of the Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Network, as Liaison to the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He sits on the Advisory Boards of Arendt Studies, Basilíade, Symposion, Nietzsche-Studien, Nietzsche Online, and Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (Walter de Gruyter). He currently serves as a series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press and Bloomsbury Academic. A former Executive Editor of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Conway now serves as a member of its Advisory Board. To date, he has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, University of Oregon, University of Warwick, the National Humanities Center, UMass Amherst, and Amherst College. In 2014 he was named an Honorary Life Member of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society.

Joe Grand “Kingpin”

Justin Weinberg

Idriss Juhoor

Margarita Louca

Silvana Fumega

Michaël Halit

Philippe Bourgois

Claire Katz

Dan Conway

Jung Seung

Cheng Hsien-Yu

Jun’Ichiro Ishii

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