Data Matters in Migration and Border Control
Co-organized with the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University (on site and online)
Please find the full program including abstracts here.
Monday, 8 April 2024
09:00-09:15 Morning Coffee 09:15-09:30 Welcome
09:30-11:30 First Session
Panel 1: Open Panel: Biometric and digital identification
Moderation: Silvan Pollozek & Koen Leurs
Presentations: Matthias Wienroth & Rafaela Granja, Daniel Leix Palumbo, Kelly Bescherer, William Allen
Panel 2: The technopolitics of digital crimmigration control: Expertise, experimentation, and democratic politics
Moderation: Samuel Singler, Nina Amelung, Sanja Milivojevic
Presentations: Nina Khamsy, Jonathan Buchmann, Dawit Haile, Travis Van Isacker & Bridget Anderson & Sanja Milivojevic
11:30-12:45 Lunch Break
12:45-14:45 Second Session
Panel 3: Being Political? Navigating criticality and dissent with(in) and beyond STS
Moderation: Jasper van der Kist & Stephan Scheel
Presentations: Fredy Mora Gámez, Tasniem Anwar, Travis van Isacker & William Walters, Maurice Stierl
Panel 4: The technopolitics of digital crimmigration control: Expertise, experimentation, and democratic politics II
Moderation: Samuel Singler, Nina Amelung, Sanja Milivojevic
Presentations: Nina Amelung, Alizée Dauchy, Ismini-Nikoleta Mathioudaki, Andrés Pereira
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-17:00 Third Session
Panel 5: Open Panel Control and Contestation
Moderation: Olga Usachova & Matthias Wienroth
Presentations: Lidia Kuzemska, Marie Godin, Sara Bellezza, Luděk Stavinoha, Romm Lewkowicz
Panel 6: Open Panel Datafied Migration and Border Control
Moderation: Kinan Alajak & Ivan Josipovic
Presentations: Connie Hodgkinson Lahiff, Georgios Glouftsios, Keren Weitzberg & Isadora Dullaert & Emrys Schoemaker & Aaron Martin, Vasilis Argyriou
17:00-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:45 Open Space: Scholars share recent research output, projects, and future plans
Moderation: Olga Usachova & Koen Leurs
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
09:00-11:00 First Session
Panel 7: Legal Challenges in Datafying EU Migration, Asylum and Border Control
Moderation: Niovi Vavoula & Jasper van der Kist
Presentations: Mirjam Twigt, Jo Ann Oravec, Mariana Gkliati, Gavin Sullivan & Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Frida Alizadeh, Abla Triki
Panel 8: Open-source and other digital evidence in the governance of asylum and criminal justice in the context of war and persecution
Moderation: Maarten Bolhuis & Ivan Josipovic
Presentations: Rianne Dekker & Kinan Alajak & Koen Leurs, Isabella Regan, Henning Lahmann, Maarten Bolhuis & Tanja van Veldhuizen, Klaas van Dijken
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:15 Second Session
Panel 9: Legal Challenges in Datafying EU Migration, Asylum and Border Control II
Moderation: Niovi Vavoula, Jasper van der Kist
Presentations: Alexandra Karaiskou, Marcin Rojszczak, Derya Ozkul, Juliane Beck, Grigore M. Havârneanu & Kacper Kubrak, Matija Kontak
Panel 10: Get To Know the STS-MigTec Network and the COST Action Datamig Moderation: Nina Amelung, Silvan Pollozek
13:15-14:30 Lunch Break