<nettime-ann> Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies

call for contributions

Tilting perspectives on

regulating technologies

organized by TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society
to be held at Tilburg University the Netherlands, 10 - 11 December 2008

Innovative technologies – ICT, biotechnology, nanotechnologies – have a huge impact on society. Regulating these technologies is a complex effort. This conference aims at bringing academic knowledge and policy approaches about regulating technology a step forward by looking at issues from a multidisciplinary angle. Regulating technologies involves different regulatory approaches giving rise to fundamental questions. For instance: Do biotechnology and ICT innovations alter people’s identity? Can ICT regulation profit from experiences in dealing with sensitive issues in genetics? How can policy-makers approach regulatory issues in the context of polycentric governance? What use is the heuristic of applying ‘off-line’ rules to the ‘on-line’ environment, when ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds converge? How can respect for human dignity and human rights be maintained in an era of human enhancement and surveillance? In what stage should moral values be taken into account in the design of technologies? If at all, which values?

The conference will be organized along the line of four key themes.
Regulatory strategies
What can ICT regulation learn from regulating biotechnology and vice versa?
Polycentric and multi actor governance
Regulation and fundamental values
   Human enhancements
   Ambient Intelligence
   Identity
Protecting societies
   Risk regulation
   Technological divides
Protecting and hampering technologies
   Hindering and stimulating technologies through law
   Patents and open source
   Value-sensitive technology

The conference will consist of some 20 lectures provided by invited speakers in plenary sessions as well as in a number of workshops. In the workshops also submitted papers will be presented. We invite you to contribute actively to the conference by submitting original and unpublished work to be presented in the workshops. Contributers will be selected on the basis of a full paper review by the Programme Committee.
Accepted papers will be available for the conference participants in print. Furthermore, papers will be considered for publication in a new peer-reviewed journal edited by TELOS and TILT (starting early 2009), as well as in an edited volume to be published by a renowned publisher after the conference allowing for revisions of the individual papers due to the discussions during the conference.
Papers must be written in English and should be between 10 and 12 pages in the style provided at the conference web site. Authors should submit a PDF file to the conference system available at the conference website (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/tilt/conference).

Papers are solicited on the topics of the workshops. The papers may reflect on the indicated themes from the perspectives of different disciplines (law, ethics, social sciences etc.). They may also focus on more specific subtopics such as:
– Modalities of regulation (Law, Regulation through technology, market, social morality)
– Regulatory innovation
– Involving Different Actors and Stakeholders in the Regulatory Processes
– The Role of Enterprises in the Regulation of Technology
– Identity management
– Technology neutrality
– Coevolution of Technology, Society and Culture
– Ambient intelligence and the distinctiveness of persons
Abstracts submission (optional): 1 May 2008
Full paper submission:        26 September 2008
Acceptance notice:              31 October 2008
Submission full paper for
conference preprint: 14 November 2008
Submission of selected
papers for Journal or Book 31 January 2009

The full call for papers is available at http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/tilt/conference

General chair

Ronald Leenes – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Programme committee co-chairs

Han Somsen – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Anton Vedder – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Simone van der Hof – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Programme committee

Roger Brownsword – King's College London, UK

Dan L. Burk – University of Minnesota, USA

Geert van Calster - KULeuven, Belgium

Indira Carr – University of Kent, UK

Giusella Finocchiaro – Universita do Bologna, Italy

Paul de Hert – TILT, Tilburg University, NL; VU Brussel, Belgium

Ken Himma – Seattle Pacific University, USA

Thomas Hoeren – Universität Münster, Germany

Bart Jacobs – Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Jonathan Kahn – Hamline University School of Law, USA

Ian Kerr – University of Ottawa, Canada

Julian Kinderlerer – University of Cape Town, South Africa

Bert-Jaap Koops – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Andrew Murray – London School of Economics, UK

Geertrui van Overwalle – KULeuven, Belgium

David J. Phillips – University of Toronto, Canada

Yves Poullet – CRID, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur, Belgium

Corien Prins – TILT, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Pauline Reich – Waseda University School of Law, Japan

Arie Rip – University of Twente, the Netherlands

Beate Roessler – University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Antoinette Rouvroy – CRID, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur, Belgium

Teresa Scassa – University of Ottawa, Canada

Peter-Paul Verbeek – University of Twente, the Netherlands

Gerard de Vries – WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy), the Netherlands &

Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Karen Yeung – King's College London, UK

Conference secretary/website

Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies

Tilburg University

TILT- Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society

att: Vivian Carter/Femke Abousalama

P.O. Box 90152

5000 LE Tilburg

the Netherlands

email: frw.tilting@uvt.nl

web site and paper submission web site: http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/tilt/conference