GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers
Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
11-12 September 2025
Technology in its villain era
Has technology’s slouch towards evermore and inevitable progress condemned it to live long enough to see itself become a villain? Should some tech (bros) have died decades ago so that they could be buried a hero? Or maybe the more things change, the more they stay the same…
Was technology always a villain?
Must tech be a villain?
Or is tech even a villain at all?
For this upcoming edition of GiKii 2025 at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on 11-12 September 2025 we’re inviting all of your deep thoughts, semi-coherent ramblings and fearless provocations about law & technology from every corner and crevice of high/low culture of sci-fi & fantasy, board/video games, comics and manga, iconic pop culture moments, internet lores, memes and feuds (for those of you who are chronically online iykyk) or really anything that you want nerd out about.
We would also be delighted to welcome any contributions tracing the (anti)hero’s journey and/or villain origin story of technology, technologists, technocrats. Or are we assuming tech exists in a grander self-mythologising narrative than it deserves? Please don’t let our prompts limit your imaginations and revelries, we encourage anything zany and spunky that is within the GiKii trinity of law, tech, geek culture!
We’re eager for first time participants and presentations wherever you and your GiKiiness may be. We will facilitate hybrid participations for colleagues who may not be able to join us in Amsterdam. A dinner for participants will be offered by the Law & Governance of Quantum Technologies Research Group at IViR that is hosting the conference. As always, there is no conference or registration fee.
Please send us your abstracts here, between 150-250 words for a 10-12 minute presentation by 16 May 2025, 23:59 PM CET. For any enquiries, please contact us at a.nguyen@uva.nl/ a.mittal@uva.nl/ b.zeybek@uva.nl. We plan to be able to confirm acceptances by 30 June 2025.