Public events & conferences
2024
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI, Part 2: Assimilation and Refusal in The History of AI
Paper: “Reclaiming software: Licensing as a tool for climate action in open-source communities”
Panel: AI’s Environmental Impacts
Moderator of “Impacts of Tech and AI on Climate Justice” panel at Charting the Course: Navigating Climate Justice in the Digital Age, event organized by the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy and hosted by the Phi Centre, Montreal
Co-organizer and co-facilitator of workshop titled, “Doing more with what we already have: a mini reuse make-a-thon” at the Open Hardware Summit, Montreal (in collaboration with Christine White, Juan Gomez, and Cyrus Khalatbari and the Center for Creative Reuse at Concordia University)
2023
Presenter at annual Researchers’ Night (La Nuit des chercheuses et des chercheurs) at Biosphere, Montreal
Co-facilitator of the sustainable and equitable infrastructures track at transnational gathering organized by Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights Coalition (with Paola Mosso)
Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “Challenging corporate power through ‘Right to Repair'”
Panel: Ecological crises and the role of technologies: harm, violence, and the quest for accountabilities (co-organized with Fieke Jansen, Becky Kazansky, and Jenna Ruddock)
Conference of the Union for Democratic Communication
Paper: “AI systems and the environment: challenging solutionism, creating alternatives”
Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) annual conference
Paper: “Tackling the environmental footprint of digital technologies through a ‘Right to Repair’?”
Panel: Digital Infrastructures and Environmental Justice: Policies, Practices, and Visions (co-organized with Sophie Toupin)
“Situated Solar Relations” symposium, Concordia University (co-organizer and speaker)
Open Hardware Summit, demo table showcasing a solar server (with the Solar Media Collective)
2022
Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
Paper: “What’s behind ‘green’ computing? Re-imagining and co-creating digital infrastructures”
Workshop organizer and facilitator of “Know your audience! How to communicate research on climate change effectively“, CIREQ Interdisciplinary PhD Student Symposium on Climate Change
Dialogues in Data Power conference
Paper: “Activist ecosystems vs AI ecosystems”, co-authored with Alessandra Renzi
DIY Methods conference
Zine titled “Salvaging”, co-authored and co-produced with lee wilkins
Media Rurality Colloquium, McGill University (respondent)
2021
Annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA)
Paper: “A New Northern Frontier? Renewable-powered Data Operations in Arctic Norway”
Annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Paper: “Memes, Scenes and #ELXN2019s: How Partisans Make Memes During Elections”, co-authored with Fenwick McKelvey and Scott DeJong