<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>Dear all, </div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you there,</div><div>Erin</div><div><br></div><div><br><b><font size="3">Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds From Below</font></b><br> <br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></div></blockquote><b>When</b><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.<br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><b>Campus location</b><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><a href="http://www.washington.edu/maps/?ALB" target="_blank" style="color: blue;">Allen Library (ALB)</a><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><b><div><b><br></b></div>Campus room</b><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>Petersen Room<br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>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 <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;">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).</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><strong>Panel 1: Community Mapping</strong><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>10:00 am-12:30 pm<br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>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). </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><strong>Lunch Break</strong><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>12:30-1:30 pm</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote><strong>Panel 2: Community Software</strong><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>1:30-4:00 pm<br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-variant-caps: normal;"></table></div></blockquote>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). </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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