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CFP for Open Panel (4S 2026): Reconfiguring Islands of Technopower (30th April 2026)
Corollary to our “Catalyst” CFP, Kim de Wolff and I have set up an open panel for 4S 2026 in Toronto: Panel 144 Reconfiguring Islands of Technopower Please consider submitting an abstract if you are interested by 30th April 2026: https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php
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CFP for Catalyst journal special issue – “Reconfiguring Islands: Environmental Futures Beyond Containment” (May 15 2026)
Kim de Wolff and I are launching a call for papers for a special issue in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience journal, titled “Reconfiguring Islands: Environmental Futures Beyond Containment.” We are looking for submissions that bring Feminist STS (Science Technology Studies) into engagement with critical ocean and island studies, feminist, critical and/or decolonial geography, Arctic studies,…
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Talking energy islands at the 2025 DGTF with the launch of short film “EnergiØ”
Michaela Büsse will be screening her short film “EnergiØ” at the 2025 Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design. I will be having a conversation after the film screening with her and Orit Halpern, moderated by Özgün Eylül İşcen. June 12th 2025, 8pm Hole…
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At Utrecht University
I am starting a new position as Assistant Professor in Urban Mobile Media at Utrecht University in the Media and Culture Studies department. I am looking forward to teaching and working with colleagues on topics on urban interfaces and performance as well as on environmental media and humanities. You can reach me there at m.e.wong@uu.nl.
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“Words of Weather: A Glossary” (companion publication to ‘Weather Engines’ exhibition)
The art exhibition Weather Engines, which is curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka, is running until the 15th of May 2022 at Onassis Stegi in Athens. Edited by the curators, the publication Words of Weather: A Glossary complements the exhibition with entries by academics, artists, philosophers and architects. My entry Extremes in the volume…
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The Art of the Archive, ICIS workshop at UC Davis, 21st May 2015
[updated: A link to the CASTAC blog coverage of the event here] I am excited about the prospect of presenting with my colleague and friend, Xan Chacko, the ideas we are engaging with in our respective dissertation projects at The Art of the Archive, an Innovating Communication in Scholarship workshop, held on the 21st of May, 9.30…
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Paper Machines
I had the privilege of attending historian Jo Guldi‘s workshop on Paper Machines, a Zotero plug-in that can ‘read’ through scores of online archived texts (as long as they are OCR PDFs), and pull out key trends in word usage and geographical positions from the aggregated data. The plug-in is extremely useful for scholars engaged…
May Ee Wong, PhD. Researcher and writer 