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

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."

I am a 2022 Summer Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

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…

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

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. 

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.

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." Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gkbM8DRTj2cSOuQ138mrq Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-cybersyn-shows-all-tech-is-political-w-eden-medina/id1507621076?i=1000522480079

Eden Medina, "The Science of Forensic Misidentification," Latin America and the Caribbean Working Group, Stanford University.

Cybernetic Revolutionaries is now available in Chinese. Many thanks to East China Normal University Press and MIT Press for making my book accessible to a new readership.