EASST/4S Prague 2020 going virtual
Due to the current Covid-19 emergency, the EASST/4S Prague 2020 conference “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds” was moved online. The digital conference will take place in the planned dates of August 18-21, 2020. Below a statement and call published on the EASST website on behalf of the Board .…
Read More >>Postponement 8th STS Italia Conference
The 8th STS Italia Conference “Dis/Entangling Technoscience” scheduled for June 18-20, 2020 in Trieste, will be postponed due to the current Coronavirus pandemic. Prof. Annalisa Pelizza and PhD candidate Lorenzo Olivieri confirmed their panel on platforms, surveillance and vulnerable populations and will join the conference in 2021. The panel invited presentations discussing the relation between…
Read More >>Call for abstract – 8th STS Italia Conference Trieste 18-20 June 2020
Prof. Annalisa Pelizza and PhD candidate Lorenzo Olivieri will be the convenors of a panel on platforms, surveillance and vulnerable populations at the 8th STS Italia Conference. The panel invites presentations discussing the relation between digital platforms and vulnerable subjects: How do online platforms and data infrastructures allow empowering innovations in the communications strategies of…
Read More >>We are hiring! Apply now!
Processing Citizenship is hiring! Two postdoc vacancies are opened at the University of Bologna, with Annalisa Pelizza as Principal Investigator.
Read More >>Panel at WTMC Annual Meeting
Prof. Annalisa Pelizza chaired a round-table at the WTMC Annual Meeting on 13th of December 2019 in Amsterdam. The title of the round-table was “Towards an STS approach to identification?” and included contributions from Jess Bier (EUR), Amade M’Charek (UvA), Victor Toom (Gezondheidsraad), and Sally Wyatt (UM). From the program description: Identity is epistemologically and…
Read More >>PC lands in Bologna
It’s official. PC ha finally landed at the University of Bologna. What about a project about European futures at the oldest university in the Western world?
Read More >>8 technical questions to the U.S. plan to collect DNA from immigrants
It is yesterday’s news that the U. S. Department of Homeland Security would be about to collect DNA samples from people into federal immigration custody. To understand the actual novelty and implications of such a move, we suggest, it is necessary to look into the technicalities of the plan, and ask technical questions. Is that…
Read More >>Processing Citizenship on Australian Radio
The interview of The Familiar Strange with Processing Citizenship’s PI is now available as podcast
Read More >>Processing Citizenship at “DATA POWER: global in/securities” conference
On the 12th of September 2019, PhD candidate Wouter Van Rossem will present in the panel “Big data and humanitarianism vs. corruption and public debt” at the Data Power conference at the University of Bremen in Germany. Data Power is a two-day, international conference organized by the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research,…
Read More >>Next Monday Processing Citizenship at the “Digitized Global Mobilities” conference in Utrecht
On Monday 3 June, 2019, Processing Citizenship’s PI will give a keynote lecture at the “Digitized Global Mobilities” conference organized at the University of Utrecht.
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