Programm
Thursday, 18 April 2024
13:00
Welcome and Introduction
Hubert Knoblauch (Berlin) & Silke Steets (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
13:30
Panel I: Digital Sovereignty
Georg Glasze (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
The Rise of the “Digital Sovereignty” Discourse and the Question of a Geopolitication of the Internet
Ewa Dabrowska (Berlin)
Between “Splinternet” and the “Open Internet”. Sovereign Internet and Digital Economy Regulation in India and South Africa
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Panel II: Between Territorial Spaces and Network Spaces
Farzaneh Badiei (Atlanta/Berlin)
Sanctions and Their Impact on Internet Development and Human Rights
Andreas Baur (Tübingen)
Reaching European Stars with American Clouds: Rooting European Digital Sovereignty in Gaia-X
17:00
Coffee Break
17:30
Panel III: Regions and Markets
Sezgin Sönmez (Berlin)
Regionalization of Cyberspace: The RIRs and their impact on Internet Governance
Stefan Kirchner & Simon Pohl (Berlin)
Selling out the City
19:30 Dinner
Friday, 19 April 2024
09:30
Panel IV: Geographies of Cyberspace
Boris Michel (Halle)
Mapping Geographies of Cyberspace –Geography’s Mapping of Cyberspace
Finn Dammann (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Political Geographies of Digital Infrastructures. Implications of Geopolitical Tensions and Conflicts on Internet Traffic
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Panel V: Network Topologies
René Tuma (Berlin/Vienna)
Network Figures: Reconfigurations of the Internet as a Refiguration of Spaces
Till Straube (Frankfurt)
Stack Trace: Topologies of Digital Infrastructures
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00
Panel VI: Global Networks
Daniel Voelsen (Berlin)
Internet from Space. The Impact of LEO Satellite Constellations on the Techno-political Configuration of the Internet
Maxigas (critical infrastructure lab)
Media ecologies, infrastructures and environments: Infrastructure walk as a methodological approach
15:30
Closing Remarks