[Air-L] CFP Statecraft, Sovereignty and Digital Government (Deadline this Friday)

[nathaniel tkacz]

*Statecraft, Sovereignty and Digital Government*
A two-day symposium, 16-17 April, 2026, Goldsmiths, University of London
(Submission deadline: 12 December, 2025)


Confirmed invited speakers include:
José van Dijck
Dang Nguyen
Paolo Gerbaudo
Lina Dencik
Fenwick Mckelvey

Support bursary
We are delighted to announce one travel and accommodation bursary will be
given to support a PhD or early career researcher. We especially welcome
applications from global majority populations. If you wish to be considered
for the bursary, please send a separate email to the event organisers along
with the normal abstract submission.

Indicative topics:

   - Digital sovereignty
   - Digital transformation initiatives
   - Transnational collaboration around digital transformation
   - Public-private relations between consultancies/tech companies and the
   state
   - Digital government as an exercise in statecraft (both internal and
   external)
   - Software as a source of soft or hard power
   - The persistence of open-source initiatives within public services and
   resources
   - Critical accounts of “Govtech”
   - Historicising digital transformation
   - Citizen or civil software
   - AI and digital government
   - Case studies of alternatives to Big Tech in the public sector
   - GitHub and government software

Full event details and submission portal:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/research/statecraft-sovereignty-and-digital-government-/

best,

Nate Tkacz