Dear All,
Hope you are doing well.
We are back with our Critical Computing Seminar! Our next speaker is Maggie Jack and she will deliver her lecture online on March 30 at 2 pm. Please find the details about the event below (and how to register).
Best Regards, Ishtiaque
== Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute https://www.torontosri.ca/ The University of Toronto Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 https://ictd.org/ictd2022/
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5262 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada Ph: +1 647 220 3482 web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FToronto&mode=WEEK ==
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Priyank Chandra priyank.chandra@utoronto.ca Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 4:24 PM Subject: Critical Computing Seminar (March 30): "Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia" To: ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA < ISCHOOL-FAC-REG-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> Cc: Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu, Robert Soden < robert.soden@utoronto.ca>, Adrian Petterson a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat rashidujjaman.rifat@mail.utoronto.ca, Cansu Ekmekcioglu cansu.ekmekcioglu@mail.utoronto.ca
Dear All,
We are happy to announce the March edition of the Critical Computing seminar series. This a monthly online seminar where we invite scholars to discuss topics in critical computing. The objective of the seminar is to create a broader understanding of computing from different ethical, social, and cultural perspectives. You will find more information about this seminar series and upcoming speakers by following the link: https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series
This month (March, 2022), Margaret "Maggie" Jack, a postdoctoral scholar from Syracuse University will give a talk on “*Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia*” on *Wednesday, March 30, 2am to 3:30pm EST.*
We invite you all to join the seminar. Please check the following link for more details about the seminar at: https://sites.google.com/view/uoft-critical-computing/seminar-series/margare.... The registration link is at: https://bit.ly/CCS_MaggieJack.
A flyer is also attached to this email, and I have appended the seminar details at the bottom of this email. Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone interested (within and outside UofT).
We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar.
Best Regards,
Priyank Chandra (On behalf of the Organizers)
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
*Media Ruins: Infrastructural Restitution and Building Futures in Post-Conflict Cambodia*
Maggie Jack, Syracuse University, The School of Information
Maggiejack.info
@slouching_mags
*Time:* 30 March, 2022 from 2-3.30 PM, EST
The registration link is: https://bit.ly/CCS_MaggieJack
This talk describes the ways that Cambodian new media creators commemorate lost artists and an imagined better way of life through finding, repairing, and disseminating historical film, photography and cinema artifacts from before the Khmer Rouge period, often using digital tools. Reconstructing such media artifacts through a process of *infrastructural restitution *is a mode of healing from decades of national conflict and a form of subtle political action in an increasingly authoritarian Phnom Penh. Building on theory at the intersection of infrastructure studies (Star and Ruhleder, 1996; Larkin, 2013) and media’s relationship to memory (Gordon, 2008; Larkin, 2008; Richards, 1994), the concept of infrastructural restitution allows us to (re)integrate the importance of memory, the affective, and the spiritual into scholarship of infrastructure. This case gives new insight into the tension in transnational technology use between creative appropriation and the problematic political economy of mainstream platforms. The empirical sections of this talk are based on my historical and ethnographic research in Phnom Penh beginning in January 2014, including 20 months of full-time research from June 2017-January 2019.
*Bio:* I am a postdoctoral scholar on the NSF-funded project “Creating Work/Life https://creatingworklife.com/” with a team spanning Syracuse University (PI: Ingrid Erickson https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/imericks/) and University of California, Irvine (PI: Melissa Mazmanian https://melissamazmanian.com/). I am a research affiliate at the Digital Life Initiative https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/ at Cornell Tech in New York City and an adjunct professor at NYU Tandon, teaching “Transnational Technology” in the spring of 2022. I hold a PhD in Information Science https://infosci.cornell.edu/ (2020) from Cornell University, where I had a minor PhD concentration in Anthropology https://anthropology.cornell.edu/ and was an active member of the Southeast Asia Program https://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/. I use my past professional experiences in the technology industry in Silicon Valley and the international development sector and my academic background in the History of Science (BA Harvard University; MPhil University of Cambridge) to approach questions of contemporary computing with both scholarly and practical lenses. My writing is published in the *Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing *(CHI), * Interactions* *Magazine*, *The Information Society*, *Global Perspectives*, *Computer Supported Cooperative Work* (CSCW), and elsewhere. My book-in-progress *Media Ruins* is under contract in the Labor and Technology series at the MIT Press (Katie Helke, editor; Winifred Poster, series editor).
*List of relevant work:*
- *Margaret Jack* and Seyram Avle. “A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology”* Global Perspectives*. June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2021.24398 https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/2/1/24398/117347/A-Feminist-Geopolitic... - *Margaret Jack*, Sopheak Chann, Steven J Jackson, and Nicola Dell. 2021. Networked Authoritarianism at the Edge: The Digital and Political Transitions of Cambodian Village Officials.Proc. *ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.*5, CSCW1, Article 50 (April 2021). https://www.maggiejack.info/s/Networked_Authoritarianism_at_the_Edge.pdf https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3449124 - *Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Infrastructural Restitution and the Geopolitics of Technology*, forthcoming book