Raquel Velho

4S Conference, Cholula, Mexico.

• Invited respondent: “Author Meets Critics with David Nemer”.

• Presenter: with Michael Gastrow (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa). ||“Space Science Research Infrastructures In Situ: Understanding and accounting for place.”

Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures 2022 Meeting (hybrid, attended virtually), with Michael Gastrow (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa). || “Space Science Research Infrastructures In Situ: A new proposal for analyzing local impact.”

Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science – Lunar and Planetary Institute (virtual). || “Astroprospecting: Accounting for ‘Place’ in Space Science Infrastructure.”

Invited Speaker, S&TS Colloquium Series, Cornell University, USA. “’I’m Invisible Still’: Rethinking Infrastructures with Disability Studies.”

Invited Speaker, STS Lunch Seminar, Tufts University, USA (virtual). “How Wheelchair Users Matter When We Think About Infrastructure and Transport.”

Invited Speaker, STS Seminar Series, Virginia Tech, USA (virtual). “Experiencing Infrastructures: Disability, Transportation, and Complexities at the Margins.”

Invited Speaker, NSF-funded Teen Science Café, Albany Pine Bush Preserve, USA (virtual). “The Things We Don’t See.”

Invited Speaker, NSF-funded symposium “Futures of STS in Engineering and Polytechnic Universities”, Missouri S&T, USA (virtual). || “A Jar of Tampons – Centering STS as the heart of a community.”

4S Conference, Toronto, Canada (virtual).

• “Astroprospecting: Accounting for ‘Place’ in Space Science Exploration.” (Presenter)

• with James Malazita (STS@RPI). “Critical Pedagogy in Design Education: The Design, Innovation, and Society Major at Rensselaer.” (Presenter)

NSF-funded STS as a Critical Pedagogy Workshop, James Madison University, USA (virtual), with James Malazita (STS@RPI). || “Design, Innovation, and Society: Design as STS, STS as design.”

Invited Lecturer, Graduate Course STS, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (virtual). || “Infrastructures as a Sociological Object: What We Learn from the Concept.”

Invited Speaker, Seminar Series of the Department of Scientific and Technological Policy, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (virtual). || “How to define infrastructures: Dealing with paradoxes and complexities.”

Invited Lecturer, Public Space and Urban Design, SUNY at Albany, USA (virtual). || “Urban Spaces and Access: Universality and Practicality.”

Invited Speaker, STS Futures: A Symposium, York University, Canada || “Activisms: Knowledge, Emancipation, Methodologies?”

Invited Speaker, In-Faux-Structure exhibit, Opalka Gallery at Albany, USA || “Monuments of Care: A discussion about infrastructures and maintenance.”

Panelist, The Maintainers III, Gallaudet University at Washington, D.C. || “Maintaining public transit for all: Addressing bias in safety and access.”

National Women’s Studies Association, San Francisco, USA.

• “Whose Right to the City?: Feminist Crip Urbanism (1)” (Panel organizer.)

• “How able is sustainable transport?” (Presenter.)

• “Whose Right to the City?: Feminist Crip Urbanism (2)” (Roundtable commentator.)

4S Conference, New Orleans, USA. || “Making Disability: disability culture, design, and STS” (Panel organizer.) || “Ableist STS? Reconsidering our field’s engagement with disability studies” (Presenter.)

Discussant, 4S Conference, New Orleans, USA. || “Beyond the Prosthetic Imaginary: New Intersections between STS and Disability Studies” (Discussant.)

Invited Lecturer, Disability and Policy, SUNY at Albany, USA. || “‘Theoretically universal, practically difficult’: a case study of transport in the UK.”

Invited Lecturer, Seminar Series of the Department of Scientific and Technologic Policy, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. || “Power, Infrastructures and the Search for Points of Intervention: The case of London’s transport system”

ESOCITE; Santiago de Chile, Chile || Panel organizer: 'Infrastructures' in Debate. Working alongside Janaina Pamplona da Costa, André Sica de Campos and Cecilia Ibarra.

American Association of Geographers; New Orleans, USA || Beyond Access: what disability studies can teach us about transport and infrastructure

4S Conference; Boston, USA. || Mending the Gap: an investigation into wheelchair users’ shaping of London public transport

1st British Sociological Association Science and Technology Studies Conference; University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. || Turning ‘multi’ into ‘inter’: collaborations between STS and engineering in transport accessibility

Work in Progress Seminar; UCL, United Kingdom. || Getting on (with) a bus: A pilot study of wheelchair users' engagement with transport and research