IVÁN CHAAR LÓPEZ
News!
February, April, May 2025 - There are new book reviews of The Cybernetic Border in Technology & Culture, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Surveillance & Society, H-Net, and MediaWell from the Social Science Research Council. Grateful for the reviewers!
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May 2024 - The Feminist Cyberlaw (open access) volume is out with amazing entries tackling how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and its intersections affect and are affected by cyberspace and the laws governing it. Victoria Sánchez and I have a piece on "Artificial Intelligence, Microwork, and the Racial Politics of Care" you can read here.
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March 2024 - The Cybernetic Border is out now! Read the introduction (for free) and/or order the book!
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October 2023 - Just submitted proofs for my upcoming book The Cybernetic Border and got the gorgeous cover from Duke University Press.
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July 2023 - Multi-sited archival deep dives begin for my project on the history of computing manufacturing along the US-Mexico borderlands with research in the Bay Area, Dallas, and Mexico City.
February 2023 - As part of the podcast El Café Latinx, Dr. Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University) interviewed me about my journey to become a professor, my thoughts on mentoring, and my wish for the field of digital studies (and STS). Listen to it on Spotify or your favorite platform!
Upcoming/Past
Talks & Events
December 3, 2025 - Excited to share work on "The Cybernetic Border and the Politics of Care" at the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
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September 9, 2025 - The book tour continues with a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience and Society, York University, Toronto.
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July 3, 2025 - Speaking at a book workshop on The Cybernetic Border hosted by Dr. Andrés Pereira at the Programa de Investigación de Estudios Latinoamericanos Críticos sobre Migración y Fronteras, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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April 28, 2025 - Continuing the book tour at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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April 18, 2025 - Virtual book talk at Ithaca College hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
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April 9, 2025 - Book round table hosted by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Hosted by Edgar Gómez-Cruz (iSchool) with responses by Amelia Acker (iSchool) and C.J. Alvarez (Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies). More details here.
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March 28-29, 2025 - I'll present new work on artificial intelligence, HCI, and technopolitics as part of the "Mindings" conference at the University of Texas at Austin.
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March 10, 2025 - Thrilled to present my book, The Cybernetic Border, at Colgate University as part of their Peace and Conflict Studies "Digital War" Series. More details here.
Research
| U.S.-Mexico borderlands |
| History of technology & imperial formations |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
| Digital labor |
| Science & Technology Studies | Latina/o/x Studies | American Studies |
Performance by Ricardo Dominguez, Ian Alan Paul, Kate Chandler
