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Paper titles:

"Redundant? Questioning Epistemic Justifications for Democracy"
-- Yifan Wang, PhD Student in Ethics and Legal Studies, University of Pennsylvania

"Governing the Encrypted World: National Security, Surveillance, and Hacker Politics in Modern America"
-- Jacob Bruggeman, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University

Presenter Bios:

Yifan Wang: "Yifan Wang is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Ethics and Legal Studies program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also pursuing a joint Ph.D. degree in Philosophy at Penn. She has two major strands of research interests, one in moral emotions and one in democracy. Her current interest in emotions focuses on the moral costs to individuals and the epistemic costs to organizations that arise from workspace emotion regulation. Her current interest in democracy lies in epistemic justifications for democracy. She is also interested in the relationship between democracy and corporations."

Jacob Bruggeman: "Jacob Bruggeman is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies modern political economy and intellectual history with a focus on technology and policy in the twentieth century United States. His dissertation, “Securing the System,” explores how regulation, professionalization, and technological change reshaped the practice and significance of “hacking” in the 20th century U.S. and world. His work is forthcoming in Modern American History, the Journal of Policy History, and Interfaces, and it has been supported by the Association of Computer Machinery, the Hagley Museum and Library, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the Briscoe Center for American History. Jacob received an M.A. in history from Hopkins in 2022, an M.Phil in Economic and Social History from Cambridge University, Darwin College, in 2020, and an M.A. in political science and a B.A. in history and political science, summa cum laude, from Miami University of Ohio in 2019."

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