Dhanashree Thorat, Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University, will speak from her current book project on colonial genealogies undergirding the infrastructure of the Internet—such as submarine cables—in the Global South. This event will be co-convened with materia (more details upcoming).
Diana Montaño is an Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first book, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City, examines how ordinary citizens used electricity, both symbolically and physically, in the construction of a modern nation.
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