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INSEIT Fellows Program Announced
CEPE 2009:
The INSEIT Board has unanimously approved the site of CEPE 2009--Corfu, Greece, hosted by
The Ionian University, Department of Archives and Library Science and Department of Computer Science.
For more information, see
http://cepe2009.ionio.gr
Call for papers
Tilting Perspectives on Regulating Technologies
Conference, organized by TILT Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and
Society
to be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 10 - 11 December 2008
Innovative technologies ICT, biotechnology, nanotechnologies have a huge
impact on society. Regulating these technologies is a complex effort. This
conference aims at bringing academic knowledge and policy approaches about
regulating technology a step forward by looking at issues from a
multidisciplinary angle. Regulating technologies involves different
regulatory approaches giving rise to fundamental questions. For instance: Do
biotechnology and ICT innovations alter people's identity? Can ICT
regulation profit from experiences in dealing with sensitive issues in
genetics? How can policy-makers approach regulatory issues in the context of
polycentric governance? What use is the heuristic of applying off-line'
rules to the on-line' environment, when virtual' and real' worlds
converge? How can respect for human dignity and human rights be maintained
in an era of human enhancement and surveillance? In what stage should moral
values be taken into account in the design of technologies? If at all, which
values?
The conference will be organized along the line of four key themes.
Regulatory strategies
What can ICT regulation learn from regulating biotechnology and vice versa?
Polycentric and multi actor governance
Regulation and fundamental values
Human enhancements
Ambient Intelligence
Identity
Protecting societies
Risk regulation
Technological divides
Protecting and hampering technologies
Hindering and stimulating technologies through law
Patents and open source
Value-sensitive technology
The conference will consist of some 20 lectures provided by invited speakers
in plenary sessions as well as in a number of workshops. In the workshops
also submitted papers will be presented. We invite you to contribute
actively to the conference by submitting original and unpublished work to be
presented in the workshops. Contributers will be selected on the basis of a
full paper review by the Programme Committee.
Accepted papers will be available for the conference participants in print.
Furthermore, papers will be considered for publication in a new
peer-reviewed journal edited by TELOS and TILT (starting early 2009), as
well as in an edited volume to be published by a renowned publisher after
the conference allowing for revisions of the individual papers due to the
discussions during the conference.
Papers must be written in English and should be between 10 and 12 pages in
the style provided at the conference web site. Authors should submit a PDF
file to the conference system available at the conference website
( http://www.tilburguniversity .nl/tilt/conference ).
Papers are solicited on the topics of the workshops. The papers may reflect
on the indicated themes from the perspectives of different disciplines (law,
ethics, social sciences etc.). They may also focus on more specific
subtopics such as:
Modalities of regulation (Law, Regulation through technology, market,
social morality)
Regulatory innovation
Involving Different Actors and Stakeholders in the Regulatory Processes
The Role of Enterprises in the Regulation of Technology
Identity management
Technology neutrality
Coevolution of Technology, Society and Culture
Ambient intelligence and the distinctiveness of persons
Abstracts submission (optional): 1 May 2008
Full paper submission: 26 September 2008
Acceptance notice: 31 October 2008
Submission full paper for
conference preprint: 14 November 2008
Submission of selected
papers for Journal or Book 31 January 2009
The full call for papers is available at
http://www.tilburguniversity .nl/tilt/conference
General chair
Ronald Leenes TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Programme committee co-chairs
Han Somsen TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Anton Vedder TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Simone van der Hof TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Programme committee
Roger Brownsword King's College London, UK
Dan L. Burk University of Minnesota, USA
Geert van Calster - KULeuven, Belgium
Indira Carr University of Kent, UK
Giusella Finocchiaro Universita do Bologna, Italy
Paul de Hert TILT, Tilburg University, NL; VU Brussel, Belgium
Ken Himma Seattle Pacific University, USA
Thomas Hoeren Universität Münster, Germany
Bart Jacobs Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Jonathan Kahn Hamline University School of Law, USA
Ian Kerr University of Ottawa, Canada
Julian Kinderlerer University of Cape Town, South Africa
Bert-Jaap Koops TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Andrew Murray London School of Economics, UK
Geertrui van Overwalle KULeuven, Belgium
David J. Phillips University of Toronto, Canada
Yves Poullet CRID, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur,
Belgium
Corien Prins TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Pauline Reich Waseda University School of Law, Japan
Arie Rip University of Twente, the Netherlands
Beate Roessler University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Antoinette Rouvroy CRID, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
Namur, Belgium
Teresa Scassa University of Ottawa, Canada
Peter-Paul Verbeek University of Twente, the Netherlands
Gerard de Vries WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy), the
Netherlands &
Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Karen Yeung King's College London, UK
Conference secretary/website
Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies
Tilburg University
TILT- Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society
att: Vivian Carter/Femke Abousalama
P.O. Box 90152
5000 LE Tilburg
the Netherlands
email: frw.tilting@uvt.nl
web site and paper submission web site:
http://www.tilburguniversity .nl/tilt/conference
2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08)
ISTAS 08 will be held June 26-28 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications
of Technology.
The themes for ISTAS 08 are: Citizens, Groups, Communities and
Information and Communication Technologies.
The scope of ISTAS 08 will include research on:
* How citizens, groups and communities are or could be linked with
information and communication technologies (ICT);
* Designing and developing ICT with and for citizens, groups and
communities.
ISTAS 08 will be a multi-disciplinary event for researchers in
engineering, computer science, social sciences, arts and humanities; as
well as community-based researchers, policy makers and technology user
communities. Papers and discussions will address both the social and
technical aspects of the specific topics.
Web site: http://istas08.ca
Contact: Bill.McIver@nrc.ca
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