<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span>Dear colleagues, </span><div><br></div><div>As part of the
2025-2026 FlashLab seminar season, the first session of our quarterly
"Environment & Digital Technologies" series will take place online
on Thursday, April 2 (4:00-5:30 pm, CET). </div><div><br></div><div>We are delighted to welcome <a href="https://jenliujenliu.com/" title="Jen Liu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">Jen Liu</a>,
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto. She works with the Toronto Climate Observatory
and will present a talk drawing on her Ph.D. in Information Science at
Cornell University: </div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span data-start="1417" data-end="1485" style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:normal">Ghosting the Coast: Infrastructural Retreat in Southeast Louisiana</span></b><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract</b>: As climate change accelerates, infrastructures are increasingly strained
by environmental volatility and political neglect. This presentation
introduces infrastructural retreat as a concept to describe the gradual
withdrawal, degradation, and abandonment of infrastructure. Drawing on
ethnographic and design research in southeast Louisiana, I examine how
networked infrastructures, particularly Internet connectivity, are
maintained amid overlapping ecological disruption, aging systems, and
deep socioeconomic inequality rooted in the region’s petrochemical
legacy. I show how practices of infrastructural maintenance, repair, and
anticipation shape climate habitability by sustaining or denying
connection in shifting coastal landscapes. I argue that infrastructural
retreat contributes to and conditions climate displacement,
redistributing risk onto communities through degraded service and
precarious labor. I conclude by discussing how these insights informed
the co-design of a community-based communications network, and what
infrastructural retreat reveals about the politics of adaptation and
survival on a changing planet.</div><div><br></div><div>--- </div><div><br></div><div>Session links and other practical information are available through the seminar mailing list. You can subscribe here: <span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><a href="mailto:flashlab@framalistes.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">flashlab@framalistes.org</a> </b></span></font></span></div><div><br></div><div>The rest of the season’s program will soon be available on the seminar <a href="https://flashlabinfo.wordpress.com/les-seances/" title="website">website</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you online!<br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><span>Assia Wirth & Valentin Goujon. </span><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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