[Ssnet_list] Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below

[Erin McElroy via Ssnet_list]

Dear all, 

I wanted to send this invitation out for a conference that I’m co-organizing through the Simpson Center on Thursday May 1st. Here is the information below, as well as the flyer for the event. Please feel free to invite colleagues, students, and community members!

Hope to see you there,
Erin


Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below
 
When
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Campus location
Allen Library (ALB) <http://www.washington.edu/maps/?ALB>

Campus room
Petersen Room

By focusing on software and countermaps primarily designed for political action with social, environmental, and land justice movements, this conference brings together organizers, researchers, educators, and technologists questioning the interdependencies and contradictions between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. This conference <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view=event&eventid=181654208&eventid=181654208__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!g7mVXJsMTt3CZDNZ19rINP-q8OQ_gAmxsLpaWyOgMpHPvNZoIrKnJHqXedyJTxo-Z__PdwJ8BLT_rQU$>, hosted by the Simpson Center, is being organized by Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) and Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame).

Panel 1: Community Mapping
10:00 am-12:30 pm
This session explores how activist groups mobilize counter-mapping and cartographic software in order to organize for spatial and territorial justice. Speakers include members of groups of the following projects: Queering the Map (Canada), kollektiv orangotango (Germany), Ushahidi (Kenya), Missing Basti Project (India), and the Waterlines Project (Seattle). 

Lunch Break
12:30-1:30 pm

Panel 2: Community Software
1:30-4:00 pm
This session focuses on community-made political software and how different collectives mobilize digital technologies against imperial spatialities. Speakers include members of the following projects: Electronic Disturbance Theater (Mexico/US/Netherlands), Casa Taínã (Brazil), Little Sis (US), and Logics (US). 


 <https://www.erinmcelroy.net/> <https://www.erinmcelroy.net/>Erin McElroy <https://geography.washington.edu/people/erin-mcelroy>, they/them
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
University of Washington

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