{"687587":{"#nid":"687587","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Research as the Practice of Freedom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESPEAKER: Stacy Branham, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT: As systems of domination increasingly grip the academy with anti-intellectual, anti-democratic, and uncaring force, professors like me despair: what can we do? I have found a way to hope again through research praxis rooted in the testimony of the historically and multiply-minoritized. In dialogue with bell hooks, I will share my story as a western, white, wealthy woman with a disability who constructs Accessible Computing research in mutually-caring relationship with the community. In doing so, I extend bell hooks\u2019s critical pedagogy to research and show how adding \u201cableist\u201d to hooks\u2019s refrain \u201cimperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy\u201d can expand our capacity to care. When we do research that cultivates a multicultural and multiability community; when we dare to share our lived truth and vulnerability with the other; when we theory our lives and live our theories\u2013then research is the practice of freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO: Stacy Branham is an Associate Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Branham\u2019s research investigates interdependence and technology in multiability social settings where one or more people is disabled, yielding actionable design guidance and proof of concept prototypes. Branham has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications at top venues, earning 5 best paper awards and 6 honorable mentions. Her work has been supported by over $24 million from Jacobs Foundation, Toyota, Intel, and the NSF. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of TOCHI journal and Program Co-Chair for ASSETS 2026. In 2021, she received the NSF CAREER Award and was named one of the \u201cBrilliant 10\u201d rising STEM researchers by Popular Science. She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 and her B.S. in 2007, both from Virginia Tech\u2019s Department of Computer Science. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.stacybranham.com\u0022\u003Ewww.stacybranham.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E---\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays. Most lectures are held in the Centergy One building in Technology Square.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/lunch-lectures\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttps:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/lunch-lectures\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhen we do research that cultivates a multicultural and multiability community; when we dare to share our lived truth and vulnerability with the other; when we theory our lives and live our theories\u2013then research is the practice of freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When we do research that cultivates a multicultural and multiability community; when we dare to share our lived truth and vulnerability with the other; when we theory our lives and live our theories\u2013then research is the practice of freedom."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2026-01-22 15:18:08","changed_gmt":"2026-01-22 15:19:12","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-02-26T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-02-26T13:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-02-26T13:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-02-26 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-02-26 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-02-26 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Hodges Room, 3rd floor, Centergy One building in Technology Square","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}