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EVENTS

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October 21, 2024


​​Book Talk Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
U.C. Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Berkeley, CA


October 18, 2024


​​Book Talk Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies
Stanford, CA


October 11, 2024


​​Book Talk Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Labor Tech Research Network
[Zoom registration]
Virtual gathering


​April 16, 2024

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"Borders", conversation with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, and Iván Chaar López.
Life In Pixels: Conversations on Living with Media and Technoscience Today
Virtual gathering, University of Notre Dame, Indiana


​ April 4, 2024

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Book Talk Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
U.C. Berkeley Center for Ethnographic Research; Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society; Media Studies Program; Latinx Research Center; Department of Anthropology
[Zoom registration]
Berkeley, CA


​Nov 15-19, 2023

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"Pivoting Across the Techno-Borderlands" presentation for Pivots panel
Discussant for Technologies from the South as Method and Challenge roundtable
Chair for Digital Selves, Datafication, and Transhumanism panel
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2023
Toronto, Canada


​July 24-25, 2023

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"Labor and Technology" Data Fluencies Research Development Workshop
Social Science Reseach Council and Digital Democracies Institute
Co-chaired with Ifeoma Ajunwa
Vancouver, Canada


​Feb 23-24, 2023

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Keynote speaker
Mixed Realities: Ethnographic Approaches to the Virtual
Yale University Department of Anthropology and The Order of Multitudes Mellon Sawyer Seminar
New Haven, Connecticut


​Dec 14-16, 2022

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"Hacking en/desde el Sur"
Orador principal // Keynote speaker

II Encuentro Latinoamericano de Antropología Digital: Expandiendo Futuros
Santiago, Chile


Nov 9-13, 2022

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Discussant for:
"(Un)Settling Race, Technology and Borders Across Contexts of Refusal" Panel
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2022
Seattle, WA


​April 28, 2022

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“Code Work Across the Techno-Borderlands”  
STS Methods Lab at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Culture; University of Oslo

Virtual Gathering, Oslo, Norway


​Mar 24, 2022

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“From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek”  
Discussant for Biella Coleman’s book project as part of Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture, University of Rochester Department of Anthropology
Rochester, NY


​Jan 31, 2022

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​“Borderlands and/as Machine,” conversation with Iván Chaar-López.
University College London, Department of Anthropology seminar for 'Digital, Material and Visual Culture' section
Virtual Gathering, London, UK


​Nov 11, 2021

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“Making Latinx Makers”  
Center for Latinx Digital Media, School of Communication at Northwestern University
Virtual Seminar Series
Virtual gathering, Evanston, IL


​Oct 21, 2021

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“In the Mood for Love (in the Code Worlds)”  
Workshop Storyteller for
Parables of AI in/from the Global South
Data and Society Research Institute AI in/from the Global South event series
Virtual gathering, New York, NY


​Oct 6-9, 2021

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​Session co-organizer (with Iván Chaar-López) and Discussant for:

“Borderlands and/as Machine: Technoscience in Unequal and Uncertain Lifeworlds”  
Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting

Toronto, Canada


​June 16, 2021

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​"Comunidades de práctica y conocimiento libre en la tecnología"

Code-x machina: Prácticas de código crítico en las artes, Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes en México.
Virtual gathering, Mexico City, Mexico


​May 12, 2021

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"Making, Unmaking, and Hacking Race and Data: Views from Anthropology"
with Beth Semel, Marc Aidinoff, Stefan Helmreich, Heather Paxson

MIT Systemic Racism and Computation Workshop Series
Virtual gathering, Cambridge, MA


​Dec 3, 2020

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​Conversation with Saiph Savage
Data and Society launch event / global celebration for Catalyst journal special issue "Computing in/from the South"
Virtual gathering, hosted by Rede Mocambos, Caisa Tainã, Campinas SP Brasil


​Oct 23-24, 2020

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“Code Work: Thinking with the System in México”
Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT Symposium
University of Minnesota Charles Babbage Institute

Minneapolis, MN


​March 9, 2020

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"Code Work: Hacking Across the Techno-borderlands"
STS Circle at Harvard

Cambridge, MA


​Nov 21, 2019

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“Iterating with the State: Coding the Political into Techno-Politics in México” presentation for 
"Competing for Attention: The State and its Others in the Digital Age" Panel
"Data Capitalisms and Digital Regimes of Value" Roundtable Discussant

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2019
Vancouver, BC


​Sep 4, 2019

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“Making Latinx Makers”
4S Annual Meeting
Ethnic Studies and STS: Connections, Interruptions, Innovations Panel

New Orleans, LA


​April 26, 2019

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“Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research”
American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting, Fellows Panel

New York City, New York


​April 11, 2019

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“Code Work: Thinking with the System in Mexico”
UC Irvine Anthropology Department Colloquium
Irvine, California


​April 10, 2019

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“Code Work: Thinking with the System in Mexico”
UCLA Anthropology Department Colloquium
Los Angeles, California


​April 1, 2019

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“Hacking Difference, Prototyping Latinidad”
UCSD Critical Anthropology Workshop
San Diego, California


​Mar 7, 2019

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“Code Work: Full-Stack Ethnography Across the Techno-Borderlands”

NYU Anthropology Department Colloquium and 
Keynote for Digitizing Race Conference, The Latinx Project

New York City, NY


​Nov 16, 2018

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“Code Work: From Full Stack Developers to Full Stack Ethnographers”

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2018
"Alternatives in Racial Capitalism: Racial and State Formations in the Struggle for Inclusion" Panel for Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)

San José, California


​Oct 10, 2018

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“Code Work in Mexico: Hacking Imaginaries Across the Borderlands”

Association of Internet Researchers #AoIR2018
"Computing Anxiety" Panel 

Montréal, Canada


​May 24, 2018


​​“Hacking Imaginaries: Re-coding the Modern in México” 
Latin American Studies Association International Congress 2018
"Producción cultural y mercado" Panel 

Barcelona, Spain


​Nov 27, 2017


​“Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México” 
American Anthropological
Association Annual Meeting 2017
"Fabricating Utopics: Hacking Imaginaries" Session for Society of Urban, National, and Transnational / Global Anthropology (SUNTA) 
Washington, D.C.


​Nov 1, 2017


​“Hacking Imaginaries: Codeworlds and Code Work Across the U.S./México Borderlands” 
School for Advanced Research
Resident Scholar Colloquium
Santa Fe, New Mexico


​Nov 14, 2017


​"Hacking Imaginaries: Loose Coupling in Borderlands Ethnography"
MIT Anthropology Department 
​Imaginaries, Materialities, Territories Colloquium Series
Cambridge, Massachusetts


​Sep 14, 2017


​"The Tech Inclusion Landscape" Panelist
​U.C. Berkeley School of Information
Toward Inclusive Tech Conference
Berkeley, California