[Adminsysters] CALL // weizenbaum conference 2022

[nw]

hi all,

ignifugo just shared this call via the etc/ list, so you might have 
already seen it. the deadline for submission is already on the 15th of 
february! their approach sounds super interesting and i would really 
like to go and do something there ( i will be back from my travels by 
then, conference is in berlin 9/10 june).

the proposed formats are a workshop and project presentation and they 
need 3 pages with a 1000 words description (from the call i cannot tell 
for sure but i think it is only possible to do both: workshop plus 
project description).

what do you think? is there anyone with an idea on how to participate 
(linking this to the AFNI project)?

greets and hugs,

nate



REMINDER: Call for Papers
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- Weizenbaum Conference 2022
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Deadline for submission: 15 February 2022 | Notification for acceptance: 
15 March 2022 | Conference: 9/10 June 2022

The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society is organizing its 
2022 annual conference on the subject of “Practicing Sovereignty. 
Interventions for open digital futures” and invites interested scholars 
and artists to submit papers and abstracts for presentations and 
workshops. The conference will take place at the venue „Alte 
Münze“, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin on Thursday, 9 June and Friday, 10 
June 2022.

The premises of how ICT impacts societies worldwide have changed. 
Instead of further indulging in collective imaginaries of better, 
digitally ediated futures, today’s narratives are dominated by worrying 
aspects of the digital transformation. Issues such as the increasing 
vulnerability and manipulation of individuals, the violation of 
fundamental rights through mass surveillance, and the digitally mediated 
undermining of democratic institutions and practices have become more 
and more threatening to an open and free society.

Against this backdrop, the notion of “digital sovereignty” is currently 
witnessing an increasing interest. Being hotly debated for its implied 
potentials, but also for its shortcomings, the term denotes diverse 
concepts that negotiate competences, duties, and rights in the digital 
age. Questions of trust, confidence, and competence – intensified by the 
COVID-19 pandemic – contextualize digital sovereignty in a fundamental 
reconsideration of what has been known as democratic principles, civil 
rights, and national identities.

The international conference and exhibition will investigate new 
opportunities for digital participation and policymaking and discuss 
alternative technological and social practices from various fields and 
disciplines. We frame digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a 
process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to 
critically partake in the digital transformation.

The conference will provide a transdisciplinary platform for scholars, 
artists, activists, and human rights advocates who develop 
transformative practices spaces to foster digital involvement. 
Grassroots initiatives, community projects, and participatory practices 
in design, art and activism appear as collective counter strategies and 
bottom-up interventions that challenge the normalization of inequalities 
and insecurities and push back against threats to an open society. They 
lay the groundwork for new forms of agency, paving novel ways of 
practicing sovereignty – both in the sense of collective activities as 
well as in terms of public education and experimentation.

To investigate the notion of digital sovereignty while respecting the 
plurality of its notion and approaches, the conference and exhibition 
offer four different tracks with shifting focuses:

1. Digital sovereignty: terms, concepts, limitations
2. Datafication and democracy
3. Digital literacies and inequalities
4. Digital sovereignty and scientific autonomy

[Read more about Submission Categories and Procedures 
here](https://newslettertogo.com/bjhtcton-cl86nveq-72oeo74n-asb)

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