Siri LAMOUREAUX

Invited Talks:

• Keynote Speaker “African Feminist AI”, IT University of Copenhagen, May 20-21st 2025.
• « From observatories to respirators: semiotic holism, systems engineering and space imaginaries”. Space Imaginaries Conference, Université de Toulouse/Labex SMS/UNIVERSEH, 13-14 December 2024.
• “On data transformations and the Square Kilometer Array”. Cosmopolitan Karoo Research Forum, Stellenbosch University (South Africa), 29 September 2022.
• Invited and remunerated guest speaker, “How to get a signal out of Africa: data politics and discontents in the Square Kilometer Array”. University of Florida, Center for African Studies, 18 April 2022.
• “Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan”. Knowledge and power in the international system, Universidad de Puebla, Mexico, 24 February 2022.

Conference presentations:

• “Electromagnetic economies of worth”, paper presented at the conference: Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: fieldwork for the new space age, University College London, 18-19 September 2023.
• “'The data is ours in perpetuity': slowing the flow of astronomy data out of Africa”, paper presented at the Workshop: “The Post-colonial Technological Archive”, Point Sud/African Studies Institute, University of Ghana, 7-11 February 2023.
• “The animacy hierarchy as a natureculture: a mutable mode of relating to humans and non-humans”, article presented at the Annual 4S (Society for the Social Studies of Science) Conference, Cholula, Mexico, 8 December 2022
• “Wiring the postcolony: data infrastructures for, in, on, above or about Africa?” German African Studies (VAD) Conference “Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives”, University of Freiburg, 9 June 2022.
• “Interrogating equity and inclusion in space science in Africa”. (with Davide Chinigò) “IDEA Conference”, Institute for Lunar and Planetary Science, 26 Avril 2022.

Conference organization:

• Co-Convenor, “Language Machines Reading Group”, monthly online reading workshop on the topic of Large Language Models and Linguistic Anthropology. Zoom, September 2024 – current. (with Anna Weichselbraun and Michael Castelle).
• Panel Co-Convenor, “LLMs and the Language Sciences”, Annual Conference of the 4S: Society for the Social Study of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 16-19 July 2024. (with Anna Weichselbraun and Michael Castelle)
• Conference Lead Organizer, “Technolinguistics in practice: socially situating language in AI systems”, Media of Cooperation SFB 1187, University of Siegen, 24-27 May 2023. (with Marcus Burkhart, Yarden Skop and Evan Donahue)
• Conference Co-Organizer, “The postcolonial technological archive: cross-disciplinary exchanges on data, health and environment in Africa”, Point Sud/University of Ghana, 7-11 February 2023. (with Meredith Root-Bernstein et Véra Ehrenstein)