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• MATERIALITIES: How does this panel draw out the material features and infrastructures of place and space?
• SCALES: How are space and place scaled in this panel? How are bodies cast and conceptualized?
• ORGANIZATIONS: How does this panel describe the organization, meaning and valuation of space and place?
• METHODOLOGIES: What methods, ethnographic and otherwise, are being used to work with and theorize space/place in this panel?

We’re very excited to announce our keynote speaker, Dr. Andrea Ballestero, of Rice University. Her keynote talk, “Surrendering to the Pull: Aquifers, Models and the Cultivation of Volumetric Awareness,” will take place on Friday 2/7 at 4pm. She investigates the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America. Her work explores the space where law, economics, and techno-science are so fused that they appear as one another.

Introducing Dr. Andrea Ballestero:We are very excited to introduce our guest of honor, Dr. Andrea Ballestero, who has traveled all the way from Houston, Texas to join us today. Dr. Ballestero is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. She works at the intersection of anthropology, law, and feminist STS, weaving her training in environmental law and policy into her ethnographic work. She also directs the Ethnography Studio – an experimental and interdisciplinary space to explore ethnography through creative methods.

We are excited to announce Dr. Sherine Hamdy’s workshop titled “Arranging Visuals Spatially: Anthropology and Comics.” Dr. Hamdy is an experimental ethnographer who uses comics to bring her research to a wider audience. Her first graphic novel, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution, was published in 2017. Her workshop will explore creative methods and genres in academic publishing and storytelling. For those who are currently working on creative methods, projects and genres, Dr.