Today we have a discussion of COVID-19 & the technology of response in Asia with Yeonsil Kang and Hallam Stevens.
Yeonsil Kang is a currently a visiting assistant professor at Drexel University’s history department. She is interested in understanding the intersections of the environment, science/technology, and disasters especially in East Asia. She is working on a project, Mineral Time, Bodily Time: Asbestos, Slow Disaster, and Toxic Politics in South Korea which explores the history and politics of asbestos, the environmental hazard that shaped environmental health policies in South Korea.
Hallam Stevens is an associate professor of history at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His work focuses on the history of technology, particularly in the domains of the life sciences and information technology. He is the author of Life out of Sequence: a data-driven history of bioinformatics (Chicago, 2013) and Biotechnology and society: an introduction (Chicago, 2016) and the co-editor of Postgenomics: Perspectives on biology after the genome (Duke, 2015). Currently the head of history programme at NTU, Hallam also holds appointments as the Associate Chair for Research in the School of Humanities and the Associate Director of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH).