[Commlist] Call for Submissions– Privacy Camp 2020: Technology and Activism

*Privacy Camp 2020: Technology and Activism*

*21 January 2020 – Brussels, Belgium*____

*(https://privacycamp.eu)*____

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*Call for Submissions*____

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For the 8th edition, Privacy Camp takes “Technology and Activism” as its 
focus. Over the last decade, digital technologies have played a 
significant role in activism by mobilising social protests, fostering 
new forms of civil disobedience, or simply by facilitating the 
coordination of activist work in the analogue world. Some scholars 
assigned particular value to the networked nature of cyberspace, arguing 
that this structure enables people to communicate and take action 
outside of traditional hierarchical power structures. However, networked 
information systems also enhance the surveillance power of repressive 
regimes.____

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Going beyond cyber-optimist and cyber-pessimist arguments, Privacy Camp 
2020 will seek to explore further dynamics in the activist-technology 
entanglements. Together with activists from diverse fields and scholars 
working at the intersection of technology and activism, Privacy Camp 
2020 will cover a broad range of practices and issues including 
surveillance, censorship, civic participation in information policy 
making, social media and political dissent, online civil disobedience, 
data justice, data activism, commons and peer production, citizen 
science and more.____

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*Participate!*____

For this edition, we call for (1) panel proposals and (2) critical 
making and DIY projects (see further below).____

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*1. Call for Panels*____

We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of “technology 
and activism”. We also welcome alternative types of sessions such as 
workshops or formats with more interaction between the participants than 
a traditional panel.____

We are particularly interested in proposals on the following topics:
• social media and political dissent
• hacktivism and civil disobedience
• critical public sphere and hashtag publics (e.g. #MeToo, 
#BlackLivesMatter etc)
• data justice and data activism
• commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
• citizen science____

*Submission guidelines:*____

• Indicate a clear objective for your session, i.e. what would be a good 
outcome for you?
• Include a list of speakers that could participate in your panel (and 
let us know which speaker has already confirmed, at least in principle, 
to participate).
• Make it as interactive as possible, think about how to include the 
audience and diverse actors. Note that the average panel length is 75 
minutes.
• Send your proposal (a panel description of max 400 words and a 
tentative list of speakers) to privacycamp 
<mailto:(privacycamp /at/ edri.org)>@edri.org 
<mailto:(privacycamp /at/ edri.org)><mailto:(privacycamp /at/ edri.org)>by 10 November.

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*Deadline for panel proposal submissions: 10 November 2019 (hard 
deadline, no extension)*____

After the deadline, we will review your submissions and will notify you 
about the selection process before 20 November. Please note that we 
might suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar.____

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*2. Call for Makers: Critical Maker Faire at Privacy Camp 2020*____

We are pleased to invite makers, disruptors, tinkerers, crafters and DIY 
artists with the aim of bringing even more diverse communities into the 
conversation on technology and activism. Maker cultures attempt to 
democratise technology by focusing on production and consumption 
patterns and citizen engagement in technology design. We seek makers who 
create with the ethos of counterculture and activism – in distinction 
from those who align with innovation and entrepreneurship.____

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We will provide an exhibit space for makers working at the intersection 
of technology and activism. Makers will be able to engage participants 
and hold experiments. Possible maker projects may include, but are not 
limited to: DIY hardware, biohacking tools, wearables, bots, DIY air 
quality sensors, experiments with glitch and stitch. ____

*If you are interested to submit your work for the Critical Maker Faire, 
please contact us at (privacycamp /at/ edri.org) <mailto:(privacycamp /at/ edri.org)> 
before 30 November 2019.*____

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*About Privacy Camp*____

Privacy Camp is jointly organised by European Digital Rights (EDRi), 
Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society at Vrije 
Universiteit Brussel (LSTS-VUB), the Institute for European Studies at 
Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B), and Privacy Salon.____

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*Privacy Camp 2020 will take place on 21 January 2020 in Brussels, 
Belgium.*Participation is free and registrations will open in early 
December.____

For inquiries, please contact Andreea Belu at 
andreea.belu(at)edri(dot)org or Imge Ozcan at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be.____




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