[ecrea] CFP: Gikii 2012, London

Call for Papers: 7th Gikii Workshop, 17-18 September 2012
UEA London
102 Middlesex Street
London
E1 7EZ
United Kingdom

It’s harder than it used to be to write a Call for Papers for GikII, the 
so-cool-it-hurts blue skies workshop for papers exploring the 
interstices between law, technology and popular culture. Back in the 
day, you could dazzle the noobs just by mentioning past glories like the 
first paper on Facebook and privacy, Harry Potter and the Surveillance 
of Doom, regulation of autonomous agents according to the Roman law of 
slavery, edible technologies and copyright in Dalek knitting patterns. 
But nowadays we live in a world where we routinely encounter unmanned 
surveillance drones used to deliver tacos, in commercial asteroid mining 
with Richard Branson, 3d printers used to create human organs and the 
fact that Jeremy Hunt still has a job. Still, if any of these or the 
other many phenomena of the digital age in desperate need of legal 
attention are digging a tunnel out of your brain, then send us an 
abstract for the 7th Gikii workshop! Maybe this year it will be your 
paper which contributes the seminal GikII meme following in the honoured 
footsteps of LOLcats, flying penises, and knitted Daleks.

Gikii has run since 2006 in venues such as Edinburgh, Oxford, London, 
Amsterdam and Gothenberg with attendees coming from Europe, the US, 
Canada, Australia, Japan, India and Latin America. There is no 
conference fee, but attendees may be asked to contribute to the 
conference dinner on 17th September. If desired, we can suggest London 
accommodation ranging from cheap to more expensive. This year’s Gikii is 
run with the kind assistance of the Law School, University of East 
Anglia at their London centre, and will commence at lunchtime Sep 17th 
running through to end September 18th. These dates also offer an 
opportunity to combine GikII with the 7th SCL Policy Forum (details at 
http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ev25696 ) in what has been termed the 
“week of geek”.

Abstracts of no longer than 500 words should be sent to 
(lilian.edwards /at/ strath.ac.uk) and (K.Mccullagh /at/ uea.ac.uk) by August 13th 
2012. A limited number of places will be available for participants not 
giving papers, and preference will be given for these to scholars 
(including postgraduate students) who have not previously attended 
GikII. Registration for these places will open at gikii.org when 
acceptance of abstracts is notified.

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** Note: I move to the University of Edinburgh this summer; my UEA email 
account will be disabled on August 1st, so please use 
(daithi.macsithigh /at/ gmail.com) to contact me. **

Dr. Daithí Mac Síthigh
Lecturer
UEA Law School
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ

web: http://www.uea.ac.uk/law/macsithigh/
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telephone: 01603 593261 (internal x3261)


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