Events

Code Ethnography: A Practical Workshop for Internet Researchers. On October 14, 2026, the Code Ethnography Workshop took place in Mexico City, facilitated by Fernanda Rosa, an assistant professor of decolonial science and technology studies at Virginia Tech, and Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz, a Zapoteco scholar working on internet governance and Indigenous rights. The workshop introduced participants to code ethnography, a research method that examines computer code beyond its technical functions, exploring how it reflects and influences social, political, and economic relationships within digital infrastructures.

Panel: Regenerative Infrastructures: Indigenous technological autonomy and community networks in Mexico. The panel brought together representatives of Indigenous community networks and technological initiatives to explore alternative approaches to digital infrastructures in Mexico. As part of the 2026 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, the roundtable examined how Indigenous communities are developing and managing their own communication technologies, challenging conventional models of internet governance and promoting technological autonomy grounded in communal values.

Pluriversity Abya Yala took part in the 2026 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, held October 7–10 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Canada. Throughout the conference, Pluriversity Abya Yala members brought their unique perspectives, knowledge, and expertise to panels and roundtable discussions, contributing to meaningful conversations on the role of science, technology, and society in addressing today's most pressing global challenges. Their participation highlighted the importance of diverse voices and collaborative approaches in shaping transformative futures.

The Anticolonial Cuia: The Costs of AI will happen on the first day of the III Critical Internet Governance Symposium in Toronto, Canada, which will take place on October 5-6, 2026. The event is co-organized by the Toronto Metropolitan University, the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto, the Rede de Pesquisa em Governança da Internet (REDE), the critical infrastructure lab, the Indigenous Friends Association, the Abya Yala Pluriversity, and the Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association.

The Writing Ground is a weekly space at the Abya Yala Pluriversity dedicated to nurturing projects that take shape through writing. The initiative sets aside a time in our schedules when we can be fully engaged with our writing needs. We meet every Monday morning. People from different places and territories in Abya Yala (the Americas) gather online and write.

The Risk and Resilience Geography Laboratory at the School of Applied Sciences at UNICAMP, Pluriversity Abya Yala, Casa Tainã, and the Digital Development Center of the Mocambos Network invited students and faculty to participate in a workshop on code ethnography. In the workshop the facilitators guided participants through multiple dimensions of code ethnography, applying the method to a piece of code selected by the participants themselves.

The Second Gathering of Amazonian Bowls – Afro-Indigenous Women and Countercolonial Experimentations, under the theme "Crossings, Weavings, Communication Challenges for Life," is committed to bringing women together to reflect on violent and nonviolent communication, engage in dialogue about the importance of knowledge exchange, and practice spirituality from feminine, feminist, and Amazonian perspectives.

The Pluriversity will participate in the Latin American Studies Association conference in Paris (May 26–30), presenting the panel “Pluriversities and Knowledge Production in Abya Yala” on May 29. The panel brings together scholars and Indigenous perspectives to explore alternative forms of knowledge production, self-determination, and the role of pluriversities in challenging dominant Western academic frameworks.

The STS Critical Pedagogy Graduate Seminar, led by Drs. Cora Olson and Monamie Haines, and the Abya Yala Pluriversity, invite students and faculty for a making and doing workshop on the praxis and teaching of code ethnography.

On October 15, the Abya Yala Pluriversity held the Cuia Anticolonial Maré: Understanding and Being Afro-Indigenous. In a neighborhood made up of 15 favelas and home to approximately 140,000 residents, where 62.1% of the population self-identifies as Black and 0.6% as Indigenous, we spent the day engaged in an intense exchange of knowledge and struggles.

The goal of this symposium is to radically reimagine the future of Internet governance (IG) as a field of study through an anti-colonial lens. This proposal arises from the urgent recognition that IG, both as a practice and as a discipline, has historically been shaped by Western frameworks that marginalize other forms of knowledge and existence, weakening the agency of historically silenced communities and their epistemologies.

The Pluriversity Abya Yala's Anticolonial Cuia in Campinas organized by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Tainã Cultural Center took place from May 16 to 21, 2025, in Campinas and Limeira. Under the theme “Articulations of Black and Indigenous Epistemologies and Technological Dissidences,” the activities brought together students, activists, and researchers to explore intersections between ancestral knowledge systems, community agency, and critical approaches to technology.

The event featured the Exhibition Women of Abya Yala, which brought together diverse artistic and cultural expressions: Indigenous feather art, bio-jewelry from the Cinta Vermelha-Jundiba Village, books, Xokó ceramics, and products from the Rede Solidária de Mulheres of Sergipe. There were also toré performances conducted by master Dona Bárbara Pankararu, her grandson Yuriê Pankararu, and the leaders Joseane Xokó and Danny Xokó. 

The event sought to create spaces for learning, dialogue, and counter-colonial listening with women from the Amazon regions. Rooted in the understanding that women across the world had been experiencing accelerated workloads and expanding responsibilities, the gathering focused on the specific realities faced by women in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Abya Yala Pluriversity Week of Science and Technology took place between April 1 and 5, 2024 and marked the inauguration of the Abya Yala Pluriversity initiative at Virginia Tech, which supports the circulation of Indigenous and Black people and knowledges in academia.