Eden Medina

Professor, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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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 of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico In recent years technologies such as DNA analysis have…

  • 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 ideas. We will discuss ‘embedded ethics’ vs stand-alone course models. We…

  • 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 (Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia), and Dr. Andrew Lakoff (Sociology and Anthropology, USC).

  • 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-industrial age” — where a…

  • 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). The project consists of building an interdisciplinary working group on the topic "The Future of Facts in Latin America."

  • 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 lives of victim and survivor groups on…

  • 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.