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Forensics, DNA Testing and the Disappeared in Latin America, Harvard University
Wed, 04/26/2023

Speakers: Vivette García Deister, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History...

MIT SERC Symposium
Tue, 04/18/2023

Panel: Ethics and Computing Education

Students at MIT will be developing computing technologies that will transform society in radical ways. We want them to proceed thoughtfully, intentionally and with proper sensitivity to risk. Can we teach these things? If so, how? Our panelists have...

The Future of Facts in Latin America: Roundtable, University of Southern California
Wed, 04/12/2023

This roundtable features several members of the interdisciplinary, SSRC-funded Future of Facts project, including Dr. Andrea Ballestero (Anthropology, USC), Dr. Eden Medina (Science, Technology, and Society, MIT), Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga (History of Science, Harvard), Dr. Kregg Hetherington (...

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.