STS Seminar Series: Technology Appropriation

The Science and Technology Studies Seminar Series is a weekly event promoted by the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. On April 5^th 2024, as part of the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week, the seminar featured P’urhépecha activist Yunuen Torres, Cherán, México; Sociology professor Diego Vicentin, UNICAMP, Brazil; and Computer Science professor Shaddi Hasan, Virginia Tech. The panel focused on self-determination of Indigenous peoples and sociotechnical approaches to technology and technology appropriation, or how to acquire knowledge about technological artifacts, understanding their functions and domesticating them to ends that allow for self-determination. Cherán is internationally known for the role of women in their fight to protect their territory

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The Abya Yala Pluriversity was launched in the first week of April 2024, with the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in the lands of Tutelo and Monacan people, with a series of events around the visit of Yunuen Torres Ascencio, from where we call today Cherán, México.

Sponsorship

This initiative has received the support of the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, with funds of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.

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