EE2026 Keynote Speakers

Professor Sujatha Raman is Director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) and UNESCO Chair-holder in Science Communication for the Public Good at the ANU. She is interested in how wide-ranging concerns of public interest can be brought to bear on specialised questions in research, innovation and governance through transdisciplinary collaboration and ECR mentorship. Spanning science and technology studies (STS), science communication and science-policy studies, her publications grapple with dilemmas around sustainability, energy transitions, antimicrobial resistance and emerging technologies.

Professor Andrea Ballestero is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Ethnography Studio at the University of Southern California. Her first book  A Future History of Water (Duke 2019) examines how people create endless bifurcations as they materialize the idea that a human right to water differs radically from its commodification. She is also co-editor of Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (2021), a collection of essays and protocols to inspire creative analytic ethnographic work. Currently, Dr Ballestero is writing a book that explores cultural imaginaries of the underground as a new planetary frontier. In recent publications she has explored aquifers as financial frontiers, practices of touching with light through GIS technologies, physical models as hydro-geo-social choreographies of responsibility, and the concept of casual planetarities.

Adam Fleischmann is a researcher, writer and teacher, currently the Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the University of Ottawa. His research concerns global climate change, science and technology, social movements, energy, ethics and affect. He is especially interested in the ways in which contemporary problems pose productive challenges and theoretical questions to the ways we are used to doing, thinking and feeling. His book project, Possibility in an era of climate change: ethics, feelings and energy futures, examines how science and politics are brought together to meet the challenges and possibilities of climate change in Canada, the U.S. and France. Adam has a PhD in anthropology from McGill University.