Conference Co-Chairs

Kean Birch (Co-Chair)

Kean Birch is Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy and Professor in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies at York University, Canada. He is also Co-Editor of the journal Science as Culture and Editor of the Technoscience & Society Book Series published by University of Toronto Press. He is generally obsessed with the peculiarities of assets!

Alison Harvey (Co-Chair)

Alison Harvey is Associate Professor in Communications at Glendon College, York University and the Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies. Her research and teaching focuses on issues of inclusivity and equity in digital culture, with an emphasis on gender and labour in creative technology sectors and the application of action-based and community-engaged methodologies.

Sergio Sismondo (Co-Chair)

Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University, Canada) is editor of Social Studies of Science and author of An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies and other general works in the field. His past empirical research has been on how the pharmaceutical industry creates and shapes the knowledge landscapes on which it operates; see his Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands. Recently, he has been working on a project developing STS frameworks for thinking about epistemic corruption.

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Wes King (Co-Chair)

Wes King is an assistant teaching professor at the University of Washington Information School. They situate their research at the intersection of technology, religion, and gender and teach core informatics courses to undergraduate students offering critical STS perspectives on intellectual foundations of information.

Melissa Adler (Co-Chair)

Melissa Adler (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. She studies information and classification in the context of statecraft and imperialism. She is author of Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham 2017), Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects (Fordham 2026) and Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age (Bloomsbury Academic 2026).

Negin Dahya (Co-Chair)

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology. I currently serve as Special Advisor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Office of the Vice-Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga. I hold a Graduate Appointment at the Faculty of Information where I teach graduate classes and supervise graduate students. I study power, privilege, and oppression in relation to media and technology. My qualitative research draws on postcolonial and feminist theory and methods. I focus on dynamics of power as they play out across difference like gender, race, and class. I work predominantly in the context of migration, with a focus on refugees in camps and in resettlement.

Conference Coordinators 

Meghana Sharma

York University

Noah Khan

University of Toronto

Program Committee

Melissa Creary

University of Michigan

MC Forelle

University of Virginia

Vivian Giang

MacEwan University

Danya Glabau

New York University

Monamie Haines

Virginia Tech

Noela Invernizzi

Universidade Federal do Paraná

Shiv Issar

Krea University

Florence Millerand

Universite du Quebec a Montreal - UQAM

Rohit Negi

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

David Nemer

University of Virginia

Martin Perez Comisso

Universidad de Chile

Thao Phan

Australian National University

Nick Taylor

York University

David Tyfield

Lancaster University

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