Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism
Wednesday, 2025/05/14, 16:15
Image: Gretchen Ertl
Prof. Dr. Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) discusses what we can learn from feminist collectives’ efforts to document feminicides and how data activism focusing on care and restoration can show transformative ways towards data justice.
| Event organizer: | Faculty of Science & UniBE Digital In/Justice Initiative |
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| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Catherine D'Ignazio |
| Date: | 2025/05/14 |
| Time: | 16:15 - 18:00 |
| Locality: |
Aula Hauptgebäude Hochschulstrasse 4 3012 Bern |
| Characteristics: |
open to the public free of charge |
Prof. Dr. Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) discusses what we can learn from feminist collectives’ who use data activism emphasizing care, social transformation and restoration to carve pathways toward data justice. This event is informed in part by her recently published book “Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press 2024), which describes transnational, Latin American and Indigenous data activism mobilized against gender-related killings.
She is the Director of the Data + Feminism Lab and teaches Urban Science and Planning at MIT while co-leading the research and participatory design project Data Against Feminicide with Isadora Cruxên, Silvana Fumega, and Helena Suárez Val. She also makes public art & design projects, writes software code & research papers, and runs data storytelling workshops as well as and feminist hackathons.
Apéro & book signing afterwards
This event is co-sponsored by the Equal Opportunity Commission of the Faculty of Science, Bern IberoAmericanStudies, the Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development and the mLAB.