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 […]
Join us at Leiden University College The Hague for a workshop on "Digital and AI Governance at a Time of Geopolitical Upheaval". The workshop aims for a multidisciplinary conversation that critically assesses the relationship between geopolitical upheaval and digital/AI governance, and features five thematic panels and a keynote by Payal Arora. Dates: October 15-16, 2026 […]
The Centre for Digital Ethics will convene a special public-interest discussion at Trinity College Dublin exploring what it means to protect human dignity, autonomy and democratic values in the age of artificial intelligence. Taking place immediately following Ireland’s International AI Summit and during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the event will bring […]
The Postgraduate Programme in Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (PPGD/UFMG), in partnership with the research group ‘Constitutions: Constitutionalism and Comparative Law’, invites the academic community to attend the lecture ‘The Geopolitical Challenges of Digital Constitutionalism’, to be delivered by Prof. Dr Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University, Ireland), on 21 October 2026 (in-person […]
The 2026 edition of the GigaNet – Global Internet Governance Academic Network – Symposium is will be taking place onsite on December 13, the Day Zero of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), scheduled for 14–18 December 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya; and online the week of 15 November 2026. As in previous years, GigaNet welcomes papers […]