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Keynote, "The Ethics of Encounter: Research, Communities, and Repair," University of New Hampshire
Sat, 04/01/2023

Invited keynote for the public event "The Ethics of Encounter: Research, Communities, and Repair," University of New Hampshire.

Darts and Letters Podcast
Mon, 10/10/2022

EP65: Technocracy Now!, pt. 2 (ft. Joy Rohde & Eden Medina)

"Last episode, we looked at the technocrats of the industrial age: Thorstein Veblen, Howard Scott, and the “industrial tinkerers,” as Daniel Bell put it. But Daniel Bell went on to say we were entered a new age — a “post-...

New Directions in Law and Society Conference
Sat, 10/08/2022

Invited speaker, Panel on "Law, Democracy, and Authoritarianism," New Directions in Law and Society, UMass Amherst.

SSRC Scholarly Borderlands Grant "Future of Facts in Latin America"
Wed, 08/17/2022

I am Co-PI on an SSRC Scholarly Borderlands Project (with PI Andrea Ballestero, co-PI Kregg Hetherington, and co-PI Andrew Lakoff...

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Mon, 06/06/2022

I am a 2022 Summer Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Advisory Board Member, Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, Stellenbosch University
Tue, 02/15/2022

I will be joining the advisory board of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. According to the Center's website, the Center "aims to bring conceptual clarity to the concept of violence and its consequences in the...

Department of Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Tue, 01/11/2022

Eden Medina, "La identificación forense tras los crímenes contra los derechos humanos en Chile," Workshops 2022, Doctorado en Sociología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile. 

Editorial Board Member of New Book Series
Wed, 09/15/2021

I'm delighted to join the editorial board of a new book series at Johns Hopkins University Press on Studies in Computing and Culture. The series will publish work on the relationships among digital technology, political economies, and sociocultural systems. 

National Academies Panel on Responsible Computing Research
Tue, 05/25/2021

Panelist, Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and its Applications—Panel on Computing and Public Governance, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Tech Won't Save Us Podcast
Thu, 05/20/2021

From the podcast description:

"Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North."...