History/Advisory Board

    SynThink evolved out of discussions between Philip Kuberski (Wake Forest), Richard Doyle (Penn State), and Paul Harris in November, 1998.  Discouraged by the lack of intellectual passion and curiosity in our academic midst, we felt it had come time to create alternatives to the conference scene.  We sensed a general malaise of fear and trembling in transdisciplinary thinking, a loss of vision of the greater stakes and issues such work could address.
   SynThink is trying to break out of this slump.  We encourage people to question the boundaries of institutional disciplines and to the limits of thought, existence and the universe.  Or, at the very least, to reintroduce humor and pleasure into collective academic events, to bridge gaps between artists and critics, as well as professors and students.
    SynThink is in its nascent stage of development.  An international advisory board been formed, and a plan for developing into an Institute with long-term presence on the campus, in the local community, and in the academic world is being set in place.
 
  Advisory Board:

Richard Doyle (English, Penn State)
Julius Fraser (Founder, International Society for the Study of Time)
Reinhold Goerling (Literature, University of Hannover)
Katherine Hayles (English, UCLA)
Philip Kuberski (English, Wake Forest University)
Remy Lestienne (Institute of Neurosciences, University of Paris VI)
Peter Lunenfeld (ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA)
Donald Miller (Emeritus, Political Science, University of Melbourne)
Brian Rotman (Art & Design, Ohio State University)