Science, Technology and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

Date: 

Monday, March 9, 2020, 12:15pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

"Code Work: Hacking Across the Techno-Borderlands"

Speaker:

Héctor Beltrán, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Shuang Lu Frost, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

Abstract: 

This talk investigates emerging forms of hacking and tech entrepreneurship by moving between key physical sites in Mexico and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bio:

Héctor Beltránis a Postdoctoral Associate and incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at MIT. His current book manuscript, “Code Work: Hacking Across the Techno-Borderlands,” examines the political economy of knowledge work and manifestations of “hacking” between the U.S. and Mexico. He completed his PhD in Anthropology with an M.A. in Folklore at UC Berkeley and holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.  

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. via our online form before Wednesday afternoon, March 4:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu0kpmXh6oz11MgFw/viewform

A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/