[Air-L] Data Power conference 2019: abstract submission deadline 31st January 2019

[Helen Kennedy]

The *Global in/securities* theme of the 2019 Data Power conference (*on
12th & 13th September in Bremen, Germany*) attends to questions around
these phenomena, asking: How does data power further or contest global
in/securities? How are global in/securities constructed through or against
data? How do civil society actors, government, people engage with societal
and individual in/securities through and with data? What are appropriate
ontologies to think about data and persons? How may we envisage a just data
society? And what does decolonizing data in/securities look like?



This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical
issues relating to data’s in/security and its decolonizing. Confirmed
keynote speakers are:


   - Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, USA;
   - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University, Hongkong;
   - Seeta Peña Gangadaran, LSE, UK;
   - Nimmi Rangaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT,
   Hyderabad, India.

*Papers and panels* are invited on the following – and other – topics:


   - Big data and humanitarianism
   - ‘Good’ data, data justice and well-being
   - Data, discrimination and inequality
   - Data activism, citizen engagement, indigenous data sovereignty and
   open data
   - Critical, theoretical and feminist approaches to data in/securities
   - Data journalism and rhetorics of data visualization
   - Data-driven governance and open data
   - Securitization and militarization of data infrastructures
   - Emerging in/securities through algorithms and automated decision-making
   - Forensic data, human rights and refugees
   - Decolonizing data in/securities and data labor
   - Machine learning, developmentalism and human security

*Information/details *


   - The conference website is here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/datapower/
   - Please submit 250-word-paper proposals for papers, using the online
   submission system at the conference webpage:
   https://www.uni-bremen.de/data-power-global-insecurities/ (to be opened
   soon).
   - The deadline for panel and paper proposals is *31st January 2019.*
   - To submit a panel, follow the instructions here:
   https://www.uni-bremen.de/datapower/call-for-papers-registration/
   - The conference fee is 200 Euro, and 100 Euro for students. There will
   be travel grants for participants from the global south and PhD student fee
   waivers (please indicate the need when applying).
   - The organising committee will select papers for a special theme
   proposal to be submitted to the peer reviewed journal Big Data & Society.
   - For information on travel visa, please visit the following web page:
   https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/visa-policy/schengen_visa_en
   . Letters of invitation will be sent by the conference organizers.