Eden Medina

Professor, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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  • Book Launch Columbia University

    Fri, 03/08/2024

    Columbia University’s Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the University Seminar on Latin America (USLA) invite you to the book launch of How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design (2024). Edited by Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso. Lars Müller Publishers, 2024. Date: Friday, March 8, 2024 Location: Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr, New…

  • Technology, Design, and Memory in Chile, Columbia University Seminar on Latin America

    Thu, 03/07/2024

    TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND MEMORY IN CHILE: THE HISTORY OF PROJECT CYBERSYN, Faculty House, Columbia University 7:00 PM In this talk, Eden Medina, Hugo Palmarola, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso will discuss the recent exhibition they curated, How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design, that opened at the Centro Cultural La Moneda to commemorate…

  • Exhibition Opening: How to Design a Revolution

    Thu, 09/07/2023

    HOW TO DESIGN A REVOLUTION: THE CHILEAN ROAD TO DESIGN Within the framework of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the civil-military coup in Chile, La Moneda Cultural Center, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation and Goethe-Institut…

  • GPT and Admissions, Ivy+ Admissions Conference

    Wed, 06/07/2023

    Panelist, GPT and Admissions, Ivy+ Admissions Conference, Harvard University.

  • 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.