GikII 2013 – Call for Papers

Sun, Sand and GikII VIII

When robots, drones, autonomous agents, Facebook stalking, teleportation, 3D printing, MMORPGS, science fiction, computer games and superhero justice are discussed within the realms of the law and LOL cats, you know the time for the annual GikII workshop has arrived!  Yes it’s time for GikII VIII – and a time to immerse ourselves in debates about cutting-edge technology, popular culture and the law.

When and Where?

GikII which has traversed through the exotic cities of Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Amsterdam and Göteborg in years gone by will arrive in sunny, golden-sandy Southern city of Bournemouth with its sparkling sea and almost California-like-but-not-quite atmosphere. It will be held on 16-17 September 2013 at the Executive Business Centre (EBC), Landsdowne Campus, Bournemouth University (EBC is a 5-minute walk from the Bournemouth train station). GikII is being hosted with the kind assistance of the Law Department and the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University. The dates provide you the opportunity to combine GikII VIII with the Society for Computers and Law Workshop (12-13^th September in London) and make it a ‘Geek Week’ with a beach week-end in-between!  We point out however that buckets and spades are not provided.

Registration

In keeping with tradition, there is no registration fee to attend GikII and priority is always given to speakers, but, there are some limited spaces available for students and non-speakers.  To guarantee your place, please make sure you submit your paper early and register for the event.  Registration will open on Eventbrite when acceptance of abstracts has been notified.

Submission of abstracts and deadline

Please send an abstract not exceeding 500 words to Professor Lilian Edwards (Lilian.Edwards@strath.ac.uk) and Dr Dinusha Mendis (dmendis@bournemouth.ac.uk). The deadline for submissions is 2 August 2013. We will be in touch shortly after the deadline to let you know about acceptance of your papers.

Main contacts

The Chair of the event will be Dr. Dinusha Mendis, Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-Director, CIPPM, Bournemouth University with assistance from Professor Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law, University of Strathclyde and Deputy Director of CREATe

If required, Dinusha will be happy to provide information about accommodation, ranging from those with sea views (expensive) to those without (cheap).  The information will also be available on the Eventbrite page at the time of registration.

More details and CFP coming up soon.

Call for Papers

GikII goes East!

With the success of SoGikII (the Southern Hemisphere GikII) and the continued strength of the regular GikII events in Europe, it’s time to bring GikII to South East Asia. Previous conferences have featured many talks about Japanese, Chinese and Korean cultural influences and have included attendees from Japan and Hong Kong. So, it’s time to bring the law, technology and popular culture mix that is GikII to its obvious spiritual home-from-home of Japan.

The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Business Information Ethics of Meiji University in Tokyo, at their Surugadai campus which is within walking distance of the (in)famous Akihabara technology and cultural centre.

As usual for this conference with the boring bits left out, talks on all aspects of law, technology and popular culture are invited, but a focus on SE Asian cultures and their impact worldwide are particularly encouraged. Killer robots, the nature of time measurement (and its impact on technology and law), the sexually explicit imagery of traditional Japanese Manga art and its modern influences on manga comics and animated films, tweets from a rice cooker that wants to be your friend are just some of the topics from previous GikII events. So, give free rein to your inner (law, tech, SF, pop culture) geek and suggest a talk for GikEA.

Registration will be free for speakers and for a limited number of non-presenting attendees (preference will be given to GikII newbies for these extra places).

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to Prof Lilian Edwards and Prof Andrew Adams.

Timetable

(GikII 7: 17-18 September 2012, London)

Submission Deadline: Monday 24th September 2012

Acceptance Notification: Monday 1st October, 2012

GikEA Conference: Monday 26th November 2012

Organisers

• Prof Andrew A. Adams, Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo
• Prof Kiyoshi Murata, Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo
• Prof Lilian Edwards, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
• Dr Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Sponsored by the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University

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Event page in Google+

It’s harder than it used to be to write a Call for Papers for GikII, the so-cool-it-hurts blue skies workshop for papers exploring the interstices between law, technology and popular culture. Back in the day,  you could dazzle the noobs just by mentioning past glories like the first paper on Facebook and privacy, Harry Potter and the Surveillance of Doom, regulation of autonomous agents according to the Roman law of slavery, edible technologies and copyright in Dalek knitting patterns. But nowadays we live in a world where we routinely encounter unmanned surveillance drones used to deliver tacos, in commercial asteroid mining with Richard Branson, 3d printers used to create human organs and the fact that Jeremy Hunt still has a job. Still, if any of these or the other many phenomena of the digital age in desperate need of legal attention are digging a tunnel out of your brain, then send us an abstract for the 7^th Gikii workshop!  Maybe this year it will be your paper which contributes the seminal GikII meme following in the honoured footsteps of LOLcats, flying penises, and knitted Daleks.

Gikii has run since 2006 in venues such as Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Amsterdam and Gothenberg with attendees coming from Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, India and Latin America. There is no conference fee, but attendees may be asked to contribute to the conference dinner on 17^th September. If desired, we can suggest London accommodation ranging from cheap to more expensive.  This year’s Gikii is run with the kind assistance of the Law School, University of East Anglia at their London centre, and will commence at lunchtime Sep 17^th running through to end September 18th.  These dates also offer an opportunity to combine GikII with the 7^th SCL Policy Forum (details at http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ev25696 ) in what has been termed the “week of geek”.

Abstracts of no longer than 500 words should be sent to lilian.edwards@strath.ac.uk and “Karen Mc Cullagh (LAW)” K.Mccullagh@uea.ac.uk  by August 13^th 2012. A limited number of places will be available for participants not giving papers, and preference will be given for these to scholars (including postgraduate students) who have not previously attended GikII. Registration for these places will open at gikii.com when acceptance of abstracts is notified.

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Of course, this is an Android app, we do not cater for Jobsians around here.

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IT University
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