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Conference Announcement Theme: Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II Subtitle: The Digitalization of Disobedience from Whistleblowing to Anonymous Type: International Workshop Institution: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, University of Amsterdam Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 8.–9.5.2015 __________________________________________________ From the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy, civil disobedience is an essential part of the history and present of liberal democracies. At the same time, however, this form of protest has remained theoretically and politically contested. Currently, there are two central and interrelated phenomena that are triggering a significant transformation of civil disobedience: globalisation and digitalisation. Jointly, they raise new theoretical and political challenges that require a rethinking of civil disobedience beyond the state. With this workshop – the second in a series of three – we aim at contributing to this rethinking from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The focus of this workshop is on the emergence of digital tactics of civil disobedience. More recently, two digital practices have emerged as prominent new forms of civil disobedience, thereby challenging the traditional understanding: Anonymous and Whistleblowing. In three sessions with presentations from our speakers followed by a set of short comments and an open discussion we will address the digital turn of civil disobedience and its implications for political theory. Speakers * Gabriella Coleman (McGill University, Montreal) * Joss Hands (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) * Manohar Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) * Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (École nationale supérieure d’arts de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris) * Bill Scheuerman (Indiana University, Bloomington) * Jillian C. York (EFF, Berlin) Organisers Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam) Annette Zimmermann (University of Oxford) Theresa Züger (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Registration Participation on registration only. Please contact: [email protected] With the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (www.hiig.de), the NWO VIDI Project Transformations of Civil Disobedience (thedisobedienceproject.wordpress.com), and the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (acgs.uva.nl) For more detailed information, see http://www.hiig.de/events/civil-disobedience-beyond-the-state-ii-2/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
