[Commlist] Data Power conference 2019: cfp

With increasingly globalized digital infrastructures and a global 
digital political economy, we face new concentrations of power, leading 
to new inequalities and insecurities with respect to data ownership, 
data geographies and different data-related practices.It is not only a 
concentration of power by a few corporations, but also a concentration 
of the availability of data in individual regions of the world. This 
includes (exerting) power about data (infra)structures and processes of 
data creation, data collection, data access, data processing, data 
interpretation, data storing, data visualisations.

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 sovereigntyand
    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 *31^st  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.


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