events
Invited Speaker for University of Michigan Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing Symposium: Residues or What Remains April 12th & 13th 2024
Invited talk for Science Studies Colloquium at UC San Diego, February 12th, 2024
White House Office of Energy Justice & Equity, Justice Week 2023 Panel on EJ and Relational Justice, October 31, 2023
Invited talk at uOttowa 3/28/23 ___________________Becoming Data-Driven Data as Deferral and Doing Data Otherwise
Panel Talk: “A Typology of Government Agency EJ Data Tools and a Relational Approach to Environmental Justice Communication,” AAG 2023 March 2023
Humanistic Design Speaker Series at Princeton’s Keller Center: Becoming Data-Driven: Designing, Administering, and Resisting the Smart City February 2023
Talk at 4S Cholula Panel on Datafication: Data as Deferral: Asserting Unknowing / Uncertainty December 2022
Discussion with Carl DiSalvo and Lily Irani on Design and Democracy May 2022
Interview with Rebecca Williams for Harvard’s Belfer Center April 2021
Interview in Boston Compass Magazine: “Subvert and Destroy” February 2021
Folding Horizons: a conversation with Leah Horgan on smart cities, surveillance, and data-driven governance December 2020 Hosted by soft/WALL/studs
publications: see full cv here
Horgan, Leah. 2025. “Data as Deferral: Resources, Risk, & Reformism in the Los Angeles Homelessness Initiatives,” IJUR forthcoming.
Horgan, Leah, and Cindy Lin. 2024. “Bureaucratic Vision: Ethnographic Studies of Digital Twinning to Assess Crisis.” New Media and Society—under final review.
Horgan, Leah, Stephanie Pease, Carla Nyquist, Ruth Mekennon, Vasiliki Pistoftzian, Kourtney Bichotte-Dunner, Ashley Varghese, Ean Tafoya, Sara Wylie, Katherine Dickinson. 2024. “The Obligation to Know vs. the Right to Know: Developing a Relational Approach to EJ Communication and Datafication.” Science, Technology, & Human Values—under final review.
Horgan, Leah, Kira Mok, Eliza Boetsch, Sophie Kelly, Katherine Dickinson, Eric Nost, Roseann Bongiavanni, Sara Wylie. 2022. “What does Chelsea Creek Do For You? A Relational Approach to Environmental Justice Communication.” Environmental Justice, March, env.2022.0081. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0081.
Horgan, Leah. 2021. “The Everyday of Future-Avoiding: Data-drivenness in the Smart City.” Information and Culture, Special Issue.
Rahman, Shakeer and Leah Horgan. 2021 “A New AI Lexicon: Surveillance,” AI NOW Institute.
Horgan, Leah and Paul Dourish. 2018. Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Activism: Data Organizing Inside the Institution. Krisis, Issue 1.
Ford, Colin, Daniel Gardner, Leah Elaine Horgan, Calvin Liu, A. M. Tsaasan, Bonnie A. Nardi, Jordan Rickman. 2017. “Chat Speed OP PogChamp: Practices of Coherence in Massive Twitch Chat.” In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 858-871. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3052765
Okune, Angela and Leah Horgan, “Already Global Local”: Complicating Notions of Technological Innovation and Expertise in Africa,” Paper presented at Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa Conference, M-ITI, Portugal, September 2017.
talks
Invited Speaker for University of Michigan Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing Symposium: Residues or What Remains, April 12th & 13th 2024
“Data as Deferral and Doing Data Otherwise,” Invited talk for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, February 2024, UC San Diego.
Panel: Towards Relational Justice in Energy Systems,” Invited talk for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity 2023 Justice Week, October 31st.
Leah Horgan, “Data as Deferral and Doing Data Otherwise,” Invited talk for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, March 28th 2023, Ottowa University.
Leah Horgan, “Becoming Data-Driven: Designing, Administering, and Resisting the Smart City,” Invited talk for the Humanistic Design Speaker Series, February 6th 2023, Princeton University.
Leah Horgan, “Data as Deferral: Asserting Unknowing and Uncertainty,” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Dec 7 – 11, 2022, Cholula.
Leah Horgan and Kavita Philip, “DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT: From Evidence-based to Data-driven,” on panel “Power in Relation: Digital Technologies Across Geography and Scale,” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Oct 6 – 8, 2021, Toronto (Remote).
Leah Horgan, “Folding Horizons: a Conversation with Leah Horgan on Smart Cities, Surveillance, and Data-driven Governance,” Invited talk presented remotely to the soft/WALL/studs collective, Singapore, December 5th, 2020.
Leah Horgan, “Smart Cities and Surveillance,” Invited talk presented remotely to the Labor Tech Research Network, October 9th, 2020.
Leah Horgan, “From Evidence-based Policymaking to Data-Driven Governance,” Paper presented at AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 2019.
Horgan, Leah and Cindy Lin. “Look, But Don’t Touch: Bureaucratic Vision and Administering the Margins.” Paper presented at the 4S Meeting, New Orleans, September 2019 and the Data Power Conference, University of Bremen, Bremen Germany September 2019. Full paper forthcoming.
Leah Horgan, “The Everyday of Future-Avoiding: Data-drivenness in the Smart City,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 2018.
Leah Horgan, “Experimentality in Data-Driven Governance.” Data Justice Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales May 2018.
Horgan, Leah and Paul Dourish, “The Organizational Infrastructures of Urban Data,” Paper presented at the 5th Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop, LUISS Rome, Italy, November 2017.
Horgan, Leah and Paul Dourish, “Making the Future of the City: The Future Perfect Smart City” Paper presented at 4S Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2017.