Research — a sample of presentations from the past five years

Presentations

• 2025, DecInvited Speaker, Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership. “The Arecibo Observatory: A Social and Political History.”
• 2025, NovInvited Speaker, Universidad de Puerto Rico: Arecibo. “A possibility to come back to the island: The Arecibo Observatory as a Puerto Rican institution?”
• 2025, NovInvited Speaker, Universidad de Puerto Rico: Mayagüez. Same title.
• 2025, SeptInvited Author, 4S Conference. “Author’s Roundtable: Drs. Cassandra Hartblay, Ashley Shew and Raquel Velho on Disability Access, Infrastructure, and Technoableism.”
• 2025, SeptDiscussant, 4S Conference. “Site-making: How Science Materializes Research Interests in Place.”
• 2025, AugSociety for Literature, Science, and the Arts (virtual). “Risks of Interdisciplinarity Roundtable.”
• 2024, JulyInvited Panelist, ICOHTEC/SHOT, Santiago de Chile (hybrid). “Presidential Plenary: Repairing, fixing, healing: disability and technology.”
• 2024, MarchSociety for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Boston, with Erman Sozudogru (UCL). “The Pragmatism in Infrastructures and its Consequences: Instrumental Design Practices & Epistemic Justice.”
• 2023, AprilInvited Speaker, The Tautegory Project (virtual). “Meeting Places: Conversations Beyond the Disciplines.”
• 2023, FebInvited Panelist, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Troy, NY.
• 2022, DecInvited Respondent, 4S Conference, Cholula, Mexico. “Author Meets Critics with David Nemer.”
• 2022, Dec4S Conference, Cholula, with Michael Gastrow. “Space Science Research Infrastructures In Situ: Understanding and accounting for place.”
• 2022, JulyPublic Awareness of Research Infrastructures Meeting (virtual), with Michael Gastrow. “Space Science Research Infrastructures In Situ: A new proposal for analyzing local impact.”
• 2022, AprilAdvancing IDEA in Planetary Science, Lunar and Planetary Institute (virtual). “Astroprospecting: Accounting for ‘Place’ in Space Science Infrastructure.”
• 2021, NovInvited Speaker, S&TS Colloquium Series, Cornell University. “‘I’m Invisible Still’: Rethinking Infrastructures with Disability Studies.”
• 2021, NovInvited Speaker, STS Lunch Seminar, Tufts University (virtual). “How Wheelchair Users Matter When We Think About Infrastructure and Transport.”
• 2021, NovInvited Speaker, STS Seminar Series, Virginia Tech (virtual). “Experiencing Infrastructures: Disability, Transportation, and Complexities at the Margins.”
• 2021, OctInvited Speaker, NSF-funded Teen Science Café, Albany Pine Bush Preserve (virtual). “The Things We Don’t See.”
• 2021, Oct4S Conference, Toronto (virtual). “Astroprospecting: Accounting for ‘Place’ in Space Science Exploration.”
• 2021, Oct4S Conference, Toronto (virtual), with James Malazita. “Critical Pedagogy in Design Education: The Design, Innovation, and Society Major at Rensselaer.”
• 2021, SeptInvited Speaker, “Futures of STS in Engineering and Polytechnic Universities,” Missouri S&T (virtual). “A Jar of Tampons — Centering STS as the heart of a community.”
• 2021, JulyNSF-funded STS as a Critical Pedagogy Workshop, James Madison University (virtual), with James Malazita. “Design, Innovation, and Society: Design as STS, STS as design.”
• 2021, MayInvited Lecturer, Graduate Course, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (virtual). “Infrastructures as a Sociological Object: What We Learn from the Concept.”