Fwd: CIRCUIT BREAKERS - 2026 CRDM Symposium, March 12 & 13

[Tiffany Barnes]

Dear G2Lers - this looks interesting. Let me know if you want to submit and what help I can provide. It seems really interesting to me.

Tiffany Barnes

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

NC State University

Tiffany...@gmail.com 

http://eliza.ncsu.edu/

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From: Fernanda Duarte <fdu...@ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Subject: CIRCUIT BREAKERS - 2026 CRDM Symposium, March 12 & 13
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Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in Circuit Breakers, the 2026 CRDM Symposium, to take place on March 12th and 13th at the DH Hill Jr. Library. 

Circuit Breakers examines how neoliberal media ecologies—shaped by platform capitalism, imperialism, and extractive logics—prioritize seamless, automated governance while obscuring the frictions, failures, and refusals through which communities adapt, repair, and reimagine technology. The symposium foregrounds interruption as a critical and creative method, highlighting improvised infrastructures, disobedient design, communal repair, Indigenous technological sovereignty, queer glitch, and feminist refusal as productive sites of knowledge and world-building. Drawing on critical making and technological disobedience, it reframes malfunction, misalignment, and failure not as deficits but as epistemologically generative moments that expose the limits of dominant technological imaginaries and open space for plural, relational, and care-centered futures grounded in pluriversal ways of knowing. 

The call for participation is open until February 15th; see the full details on the Circuit Breaker's website. Feel free to share the information above and the poster below. 

We are looking forward to getting your proposal and learning about how you are reimagining technologies for collective care.

Kindly,

Circuit Breaker's Organizing Committee

(Luke LeGrand, Fernanda Duarte, Steve Wiley, Shawna Sheperd-Murtagh, Wil Carr, McKinley Keener, Michael Fennessey)

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Dr. Fernanda Duarte (Fredu)

she/her, ela

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

CHASS Outstanding Junior Scholar '23

marginaliamaking.com

fernandaduarte.net

SARAVÁ!