Dear all —

Please join us online at noon on Friday, February 5, to hear Professor Iván
Chaar López  of UT Department of American Studies speak on “Networked
Asymmetries in Stories of Technoscience.”

To take part in this Zoom event, you will need to register in advance using
this link:
https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocO6przMpGN3B9g3V9MXP02bN9J_cyk0b
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.

The history of cybernetics has often displaced non-White actors and women from
its accounts. Recentering them generates new understandings of the
entanglements between computing, electronics, and racial formations. In paying
attention to the racialized and gendered labor of these actors, this talk
analyzes networked asymmetries, or the uneven associations and differential
arrangements through which actors are enrolled in the making of technoscience—
both as story and artifact.
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Iván Chaar López is an assistant professor in Digital Studies in UT’s
Department of American Studies. His research and teaching examine the politics
of digital technologies. He is especially interested in the place of Latina/o/
xs as targets, users, and developers of digital lifeworlds.

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Bruce Hunt and Megan Raby
UT History Department