Gikii’s Existential Threat, or Nerding Out–As–A–Service? As the most powerful technologies companies in the world reorient their whole business models to automated fan-fiction production, we invite you to Gikii 2024, held at the Faculty of Laws, University College London 4-5 September 2024. Gikii needs you. We are living in a world where most, if not… Read More »
GikII 2023 – Dancing with the AI Stars: Legal Moves in the Rhythm of Technological Change🤓🌍 Attention science fiction aficionados, tech enthusiasts, and legal wizards! GikII, the renowned international workshop at the nexus of law, technology, and popular culture, is back with a bang for its highly anticipated 2023 edition. This year, we’re thrilled to… Read More »
Gikii 2021: The Light at the End of the Vaccination Syringe Edition September 13-14. Location: the Zoomiverse In 2021, Gikii will again be online. Since last year’s online edition of the fabled Gikii workshop on topics at the intersection of law, technology and popular culture, there’s been the NFT craze, the gaming of Gamestop, the… Read More »
Gikii 2020: New (ab) Normal Edition! July 30-31 2020 Post-apocalyptic Hell-cyberspace (Deadline extended!) Since 2006 Gikii has been at the forefront of the interface between law and popular culture. This year we’re going retro and moving to the Metaverse. Its 1996 all over again! Well maybe early 2000s. Dust-off your VR sets, strap into your… Read More »
Call for Papers: Gikii XIV- The Purry Road September 9-10, 2019, QMUL, London, UK From mega-corporations that react to self-inflicted scandals by changing their policies to then not comply with them, to venerable institutions that exemplify why ancient cultures venerated cats and not institutions, through the possibility of a fully filtered Internet, this is a… Read More »
Call for Papers: Gikii Vienna 2018 – The Gikii Files September 13-14, Vienna, Austria The events of this year are culminating in intensity and volume in a remarkable pace. Social, political and cultural shifts seem to be taking centre stage in world politics at a time where the personal not only is firmly political, but… Read More »
Call for Papers: GikII Workshop, September 15, 2017 Workshop venue: Mercure Winchester Wessex Hotel, Winchester UK In 2017 GikII goes back to basics with a one-day workshop in England’s ancient capital, Winchester. In a world of BREXIT, Trump and fake news, the sky is the limit for papers exploring the connections between law, technology and popular culture.… Read More »