On 13 July 2024, Dr. Dennis Redeker, ZeMKI member and postdoc in the “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology Lab” (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach), spoke about social media platforms and their regulation as part of the “Wissen um 11 (Knowledge at 11)” lecture series at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. The public lecture in the Olbers Hall, […]
The Internet and Communication Policy Center (ICPC) research team was hosted by the University of Padova for a Joint Research Retreat on March 13-14, 2025, centered around Digital Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective. For the team members, it was a fantastic opportunity for stimulating exchange and collaboration. Over two days, the team delved into key topics like AI […]
30 June - 4 July 2025, Universidad de León EMILDAI Summer School 2025: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Europe – Sovereignty, Democracy and Rights From 30 June to 4 July 2025, the EMILDAI Summer School will take place at the Universidad de León, Spain, hosted in the Salón de Grados of the Escuela de Ingenierías. This […]
The 2025 Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) will take place in Naples, Italy, from 4–6 September 2025. As part of the section “Digitalization: Normative and Empirical Challenges for Political Science,” members of the DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster are organising the panel: “Institutionalizing Cybersecurity in the European Union: A […]
The DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster is pleased to announce a forthcoming two-day academic event titled “The Gavel and the Algorithm: Courts’ Role in a Data-Driven World” which will take place on 22 and 23 January 2026 at Dublin City University (Glasnevin Campus) as part of the DCU Ethics and Privacy Week. The event will […]
As part of his fellowship at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Dr. Adio-Adet Dinika is co-hosting a roundtable with the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, PGMT Lab, under the topic "Algorithmic Accountability from Below", bringing together data workers, standards experts, researchers, and policy actors to explore how frontline knowledge can […]
Dublin City University, in partnership with the University of Salerno, the University of Bremen, the University of Padova, the University of Groningen and Tallinn University, will host the Digital Constitutionalism Network's 2026 Blended Intensive Program on “Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms: Rights, Responsibilities and Governance”. The programme brings together Bachelor, Master and PhD students from across the […]
DCN member Dennis Redeker (University of Bremen) is co-organising a workshop on “International Relations in the Digital Age: Governing – and Being Governed by – Technology”, taking place on 26–27 March 2026 at the University of Bremen. The workshop brings together scholars from International Relations (IR), Science and Technology Studies (STS) and global governance to examine […]
SWING – School on Internet Governance 2026 will take place in Bruges, Belgium, from 20 to 24 April 2026. Hosted by the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), SWING is designed for graduate students, early-career researchers, ICT professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in the field. The program aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of the actors, processes, and policy challenges, shaping the governance of the internet and digital technologies. Through a combination of expert-led lectures and interactive group work, participants collaboratively analyse key governance issues and develop policy recommendations to be presented during the program’s final sessions.
The Tenth GIG-ARTS Conference, to be held at the Dublin City University on 14th-15th May 2026, takes as its main theme “Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms: Rights, Responsibilities and Governance.” It seeks to foster a multi-disciplinary discussion regarding the intersections of digital development, environmental concerns, and transnational governance. Co-organisers, DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster and […]
Just over a month to go until the DVPW IB-Sektionstagung 2026, the conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association, taking place at the University of Würzburg from 21 to 23 September. At the conference, Dennis Redeker and Chiara Spiniello will present their paper, “Contested Digital Empires: AI, Public Trust and […]
On 6 October 2026, the Law and Tech Research Cluster of the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI) hosted an event exploring the critical intersection of data centre governance, strategic autonomy, and European digital sovereignty. As data centres rapidly become the essential physical backbone of artificial intelligence and the cloud economy, identifying appropriate regulatory strategies is […]