<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello all, </div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Sharing this conference happening on May Day organized by Erin McElroy - please share with students and networks interested in how global social movements have leveraged tech toward emancipatory futures. </div></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"><div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times, serif;">Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Event interval<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Single day event<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Campus location<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.washington.edu/maps/?ALB" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Allen Library (ALB)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Campus room<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td><td style="padding: 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Petersen Room<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"></td><td style="padding: 0in;"><p class="xfirstp" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="">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 between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures. This <a href="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$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">conference</a>, hosted by the Simpson Center, is being organized by Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) and Luis Felipe R. Murillo (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmiddlep" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Panel 1: Community Mapping</span></strong><span style=""><br>10:00 am-12:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmiddlep" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="">This session explores how activist groups mobilize counter-mapping and cartographic software in order to mobilize 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 Waterlines Project (Turtle Island). Together, we will explore what it means to mobilize spatial software for emancipatory futures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmiddlep" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Lunch Break</span></strong><span style=""><br>12:30-1:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmiddlep" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Panel 2: Community Software</span></strong><span style=""><br>1:30-4:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="xmiddlep" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="">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), Tor (US), Little Sis (US), and Logics (US). Together, we will explore how groups maintain autonomist politics in software creation amidst a landscape of political and economic violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>