[Air-L] Fwd: 4S Toronto - Code, Bodies, and Territories - Submit your abstracts by April 30

[Fernanda Rosa]

(português abaixo; español abajo)

Hello everyone,

We would like to invite scholars working on Latin America to submit your
abstracts to our 4S Open Panel: *Code, Bodies, and Territories: Digital
Colonialism and Resistance in Latin America*
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php

Although submissions must be in English, our goal is to expand our
community of practice and connect through experiences, concepts, and
problems that bring us together in different languages.

Please find the key dates and panel description below, and feel free to
reach out if you have any questions. We recommend consulting the 4S website
for other dates related to travel grants and volunteering opportunities.

Cheers,

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Olá a todes,

Gostaríamos de convidar pesquisadores que atuam na América Latina a
submeter seus resumos para o nosso Painel Aberto da 4S: *Código, Corpos e
Territórios: Colonialismo Digital e Resistência na América Latina*.
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php

Embora as submissões devam ser feitas em inglês, nosso objetivo é expandir
nossa comunidade de prática e nos conectar por meio de experiências,
conceitos e problemas que nos unem em diferentes idiomas.

Confiram abaixo as datas principais e a descrição do painel, e sintam-se à
vontade para entrar em contato caso tenham alguma dúvida. Recomendamos
consultar o site da 4S para verificar outras datas relacionadas a
auxílios-viagem e oportunidades de voluntariado.

Atenciosamente,


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Hola a todes:

Nos gustaría invitar a les investigadores que trabajan con América Latina a
enviar sus resúmenes para nuestro Panel Abierto de la 4S: *«Código, cuerpos
y territorios: colonialismo digital y resistencia en América Latina»*.
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php

Aunque las postulaciones deban realizarse en inglés, nuestro objetivo es
ampliar nuestra comunidad de práctica y conectar a través de experiencias,
conceptos y problemáticas que nos unen en diferentes idiomas.

A continuación encontrarán las fechas clave y la descripción del panel; no
duden en ponerse en contacto con nosotres si tienen alguna pregunta.
Recomendamos consultar el sitio web de la 4S para conocer otras fechas
relacionadas con becas de viaje y oportunidades de voluntariado.

Saludos cordiales,

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*Deadline for abstract submissions:* April 30
*Notification of Abstract Acceptance: *May 29, 2026
*Early Bird Registration: *June 1—July 3, 2026
*4S 2026 Conference: *October 7-10, 2026


*209 Code, Bodies, and Territories: Digital Colonialism and Resistance in
Latin America*
Fernanda R. Rosa, Virginia Tech; Diego Vicentin; Carolina Israel, Federal
University of Parana; Rodolfo Avelino, Insper; Leonardo Cruz, Federal
University of Para

Information, Computing and Media Technology; Decolonial and Postcolonial
STS; Feminist STS

The constitution of modernity is inseparable from scientific narratives
that defend universality as a principle of knowledge production.
Consequently, the Western technical incorporation into the bodies and
territories, as taught by Indigenous and Black peoples, has become a
systematic mechanism of subalternization of traditional, local, popular,
and dissident knowledge. The forms of resistance that historically emerge
involve multiple strategies that encompass both the preservation of
knowledge, memory and identities and the technical appropriation following
different sociotechnical arrangements. Given these guiding principles and
the current techno-productive transformations that emerge with AI, this
panel constitutes a space-time to address the relationships between digital
technologies, including code, infrastructure, and their governance, as
devices of bodily, epistemic, ontological, and territorial domination in
Latin America, as well as the forms of resistance in their multiple
configurations. Indigenous practices, maintained for centuries on the
continent, are the prime example of such resistance, to which the struggles
of Black and maroon populations, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with
disabilities, those under social vulnerability, among others, are added.

Despite techno-epistemic hegemonies, Indigenous and Decolonial Science and
Technology Studies (STS) emerge as a possibility for repositioning academic
research in a way that is committed to a pluriversal future that respects
multiple cosmotechnics and symmetrical dialogue with diverse forms of
knowledge. In line with this horizon, this panel establishes among its
objectives: To provide a space for debate focused on the possibilities of
techno-scientific (re)making in dialogue with the pluriversality of
knowledge and technologies; To reimagine code, infrastructure, and
governance of digital technologies mediating human and nonhuman relations;
To socialize experiences, research, and actions that aim at counterpointing
hegemonic digital socio-technical relations; To share knowledge and
experiences about the characteristics of Latin American techniques in the
embodiment of the digital, highlighting the relationships between
technique, territory, and body.