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COST Action (CA22135) Workshop: Data Matters
Data Matters
Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control
co-organized by the COST Action Working Group 1 “Inventory” Coordination Group and the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University (on site and online)
Please find the full program including abstracts here.
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
14:30-16:30 Public Panel
DATAMIG Panel: Part I
Moderation: Vasilis Argyriou & Veronika Nagy
Presentations: Philipp Seuferling, Leonie Jegen, Noemi Mena Montes, Ivan Josipovic, Salah El-Kahil
DATAMIG PART II
Moderation: Annalisa Meloni & Zuzana Uhde
Presentations: Stephan Scheel, Laura Candidatu, Rocco Bellanova & Silvan Pollozek & Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Sifka Etlar Frederiksen, Evelien Brouwer & Yiran Yang & Frederik Borgesius Zuiderveen & Pascal Beckers
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:00 Plenary roundtable
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’. Participatory Approaches to Migration and Surveillance. Conversations with the Migration and Technology Monitor
Moderation: Jasper van der Kist & Koen Leurs
Speakers: Petra Molnar, Wael Qarssifi, Florian Schmitz,
18:00-19:00 Drinks
Wednesday, 10 April 2024: COST Action DATAMIG Writing WORKSHOP
9:00-10:45 Writing Sprint keywords 1
- Introduction and onboarding
- Revision of keywords and clusters
- Literature research for keywords
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Writing Sprint keywords 2
- Writing session keywords in small groups
- Open questions and next steps
13:00-13:15 Wrap up, farewell
DATAMIG Coordination Group: Vasilis Argyriou, Alice Fill, Koen Leurs, Annalisa Meloni, Veronika Nagy, Silvan Pollozek, Philipp Seuferling, Zuzana Uhde
Local Organizer: Koen Leurs
STS-MigTec Annual Workshop 2024
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
Call for Papers - STS-MIGTEC Workshop 2024: Data Matters in Migration and Border Control
The research network STS-MIGTEC and Utrecht University’s focus area Governing the Digital Society with its special interest group Digital Migration invite contributions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), critical migration, security, surveillance and border studies, and related disciplines.
You can submit your papers either to specific thematic panels or to open panels (see detailed cfp).
Please include the title, abstract (up to 250 words), and authors of the paper, incl. affiliations and short bios (75 words). Specify if you propose your paper to one of the available thematic panels or to open panels and if you would like to participate on-site. The deadline for submissions is 14 December 2023.
STS-MigTec and Processing Citizenship Paper Workshop 2023 (Hybrid)
STS-MIGTEC and Processing Citizenship Paper Workshop 2023 invites scholars at different career stages to participate in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research. The workshop aims to take stock and look beyond the current state of the art of research, and to engage with recent developments such as the pandemic, and Russia’s war against Ukraine and its implications for the study of matters relevant to the network.
STS-MigTec Writing-for-publication Workshop 2022
This Writing-for-publication workshop is organized by the STS MigTec network, with support from the RISK CHANGE research project (2021-2022), which is hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The workshop aims at facilitating encounters between Critical Border & Migration Studies and the study of Technology from the perspectives of the humanities and the social sciences (especially Science and Technology Studies and related fields such as History of Technology).
STS-MigTec Annual Workshop 2022 ONLINE
The STS-MIGTEC network aims to stimulate and communicate work at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security, surveillance, and border studies. It seeks to bring together researchers from different disciplines and around the world and to initiate scientific exchange to produce synergies for relevant knowledge production (http://sts-migtec.org/).
The STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop 2022 invites scholars to present and discuss current work in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research.
STS-MigTec Annual Workshop 25-26 January 2021 – ONLINE
The first STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop invites scholars to present and discuss current work in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research.
STS-MigTec Meeting at EASST/4S conference in Prague 2020
A first STS-MIGTEC network meeting took place in the planned dates of the EASST / 4S conference “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds” between August 18-21, 2020.