TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2020
November
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Working out the ‘dual sublime: Gender in Sino-African tech entrepreneurial spaces. African Studies Association (ASA), [Virtual].
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Mapping contemporary (re)imaginations of a global black diaspora. Michigan State University (African Studies Center). [Virtual]
October
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China, Africa, and the shifting worlds of tech labor. University of Pennsylvania (CARGC). [Virtual]
February
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'The hype and hope of African tech entrepreneurship', The World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
December
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'Survival Innovation and the labors of tech entrepreneurship', Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
November
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'Fostering historical research in CSCW', Workshop, CSCW, Austin, Texas
October
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'Designing the south: Emerging accounts of technology, entrepreneurship, and collaboration between Africa and China, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
May
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'IoT as imaginative crossroads: Ghanaian makers and the politics of technology progress, ICA, Washington DC.
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'Equals on an uneven playing field: Unpacking small scale Sino-African tech entrepreneurial collaborations'. Lingnan University, Hong Kong
April
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'Reorienting Tech Transfer: Learning, Exchange, and Collaboration between African and Chinese Tech Entrepreneurs', CARI-SAIS, Washington DC.
February
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'Contestations of entrepreneurial labor between Ghana and China', GIDEST (The New School), NYC.
2018
December
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'Anything is possible': Technology in the China-Africa relationship, ASA, Atlanta.
November
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'Tinkering with Governance: Technopolitics and the economization of citizenship' (with Silvia Lindtner), CSCW, Jersey City.
July
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'Survivability & (re)defining innovation through transnational technology production', National University of Singapore, Singapore.
May
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Making tech-entrepreneurial connections: Ghana-China Workshop, Impact Hub Accra, Ghana
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A public conversation on design critique with Anders Fagejord (U of Oslo) and Silvia Lindtner (U of Michigan) at ICA pre-conference 'Design as object, design as method', ICA, Prague, Czech Republic
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'Identity, Labor, and the Work of Producing Digital Technologies ‘From the Periphery’. ICA, Prague, Czech Republic
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'Futurity and designing digital technologies ‘The African Way’', ICA, Prague, Czech Republic
April
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China-Africa Relations: Making in Shenzhen and trading in Guangzhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
2017
October
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''Innovating to survive': African tech entrepreneurs and the global discourse of technology production'. University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School, Philadelphia, USA.
September
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'The intersecting logics of mobile phones and radio distribution in Ghana, Neoliberal Fever Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
August
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'Experiencing innovation'. 4S. Boston, USA.
May
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'Challenges to FOI: The view from Africa'. ICA. San Diego, USA.
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'FM radio via mobile phones: Rethinking the logics of radio distribution in Ghana'. ICA. San Diego, USA.
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'How methods make designers'. CHI. Denver, USA.
2016
December
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Digital technologies in and from the global south. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
September
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'Made in Africa: Making, doing, and the labor of future‐making’. 4S /EASST. Barcelona, Spain.
August
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'Effective online research for journalists'. Journashop 4, iJourno Africa. Accra, Ghana.
July
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'Technology discourse in contemporary Africa'. Technology Studies in Africa Workshop, Durban, South Africa.
May
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'Design(ing) "here" and "there": Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes.' CHI. San Jose, USA.
March
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'Tech entrepreneurship in Africa: Views from Accra & Nairobi'. xHub barcamp: Building the Addis tech vision, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2015
October
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'Tech production culture and industry logics in Ghana'. Michigan State & University of Michigan ICTD mini-symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
July
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‘Whose freedom? Which information?: Discourses on Freedom on Information’ IAMCR. Montreal, Canada.
May
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‘Networked radio: The role of social media interactivity in radio broadcasts in Ghana.’ ICA. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
February
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Media, Technology, and the global technoclass: Case studies from Ghana. UMBC, Maryland, USA.