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<p>Hi everyone, </p>
<p>about this, thanks Stefi for the email. It's good to learn bit by
bit how to moderate meetings, I think a lesson from this last one
is to not underestimate the time for each point in the agenda
setting, while also making sure that it is respected in the actual
meeting.</p>
<p>Regarding the updates, point by point:</p>
<p>- Tanja Bosch, wow! Amazing opportunity. I'm thinking Paul
Chiwona (from the DMI project) has already expressed interest in
working with us and he will do three months of fieldwork in CT,
SA. Though he is not a local, so if we could have a team of locals
working with Tanja. After we are done with the kick-off event, I
am happy to jump in the conversations on how to apply for funding
to support this collab. <br>
- Diletta - met her at an AI Ethics event in PoliMi in 2022, great
speaker! I'm really curious about her research on the Dutch case,
I may be away between the 4 and the 7 but I'll be there after, and
happy to organize something. <br>
- Raphael, amazing! The first thing that comes to mind in Ams is
the INC Exit Fest and - if everything goes well - maybe even the
presentation of my book - would love to organize a conversation on
decolonial epistemologies of data infrastructures, and I find his
work on platform labour exploitation very interesting for the
Infrastructural Inequalities theme. I'm also happy to co-organize
a GDC talk. <br>
- As for the Surveillance Studies Conference, I am not sure I
understand what this entail. If it entails helping them host the
event at UvA, while they organize the conference, happy to do
that; if it entails organizing the conference in itself than I am
not sure we have the capacity; could you clarify this point?</p>
<p>Will put an agenda point to discuss these updates in the next
meeting :) <br>
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<p>Best, </p>
<p>Giulia</p>
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Great! (Encouraging yop from me)<br>
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For the surveillance conference i just think that the scene is
moving so fast these days that we really need to accelerate to
set our own storytelling and be part of the scene. I don't mean
necessarily by being part of the hype but setting up the datagov
messagge very clearly. The start is promising :)<br>
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Item was: Updates and questions (meeting with potential
South African partner, visit in May by Diletta Huyskes,
request to host Surveillance Studies conference next year,
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(Past) visit by <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<a href="https://humanities.uct.ac.za/cfms/cfms/contacts/tanja-bosch" originalsrc="https://humanities.uct.ac.za/cfms/cfms/contacts/tanja-bosch" data-outlook-id="77ac1ed6-526d-4b01-8c6b-a07038f8ed42" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" moz-do-not-send="true">Tanja Bosch</a>, prof at the
University of Cape Town;
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">SA-UK
SARChI Bilateral Research Chair in Digital Media
Sociology and Chair of the
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African Digital Rights Network</a>. Recently
co-authored </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/feminist-digital-citizenship-in-africa-9781350500488/" originalsrc="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/feminist-digital-citizenship-in-africa-9781350500488/" data-outlook-id="b5f66a64-a66d-4fd8-a31d-fee415c49553" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" moz-do-not-send="true">Feminist Digital
Citizenship in Africa</a>/. </i>Tanja visited of
February 11; I tried to involve Giulia (the only one
in town!) but in the end it was a quick, messy (but
very exciting) meeting. I liked very much meeting
Tanja, and I respect her work and loved the vibe! (We
also clicked on some common sport passion eheh). I
shared with her the project description for DATAGOV,
and she suggested to partner with us to (and I quote
from her email): "</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">have a small team on the
ground in South Africa collect the data for the SA
part of the project? Such a team could be managed by
me and work from out of the lab. I do think having a
South African person/researcher lead the SA component
brings situated knowledge of local data
infrastructures and everyday practices of data use as
well as existing networks with civil society etc. I am
not sure whether your budget has room for a SA based
postdoc which here is costed at around 20k euro per
annum. Alternative budget for a local research
assistant is costed at around 15 euros per hour. We
could also build a team that comprises researchers
from another university for example in Johannesburg to
avoid flight costs for interviews.</span>”<span style="font-size: 16px;">. Now, to take this home the
best would be to </span>acquire external funds, since
a change of plan for an ERC grant equals a cumbersome,
tedious, terrifying grant amendment. I put it here for
future discussion. I want to reassure you that no one’s
job in the team is under threat. </p>
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<a href="https://www.dilettahuyskes.eu/" originalsrc="https://www.dilettahuyskes.eu/" data-outlook-id="f77cddc7-3ad4-4bba-bcef-137a4eeb599f" moz-do-not-send="true">Diletta Huyskes</a></span>.
Diletta is an Italian Dutch scholar and entrepreneur
active in our domain. I got to know her because I was
the opponent in her PhD thesis defense at the University
of Milan <a href="https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1163995" originalsrc="https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1163995" data-outlook-id="ed941518-bf2a-481c-a10a-290c83d479e2" moz-do-not-send="true">
("Constructing Automated Societies. Socio-Cultural
Determinants and Impacts of Automated Decision-Making
in Public Services”</a>, 2025, where she compared
Italy and the Netherlands; if curious, we can ask
whether she is ok with sharing). She will be visiting us
in May 4-29. Let’s plan some fun stuff. </div>
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visit by
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann" originalsrc="https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann" data-outlook-id="8b56afe2-4ae2-447a-ac29-d2fe83937c7a" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" moz-do-not-send="true">Rafael
Grohmann</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Rafael
is a Brazilian working out of the University Toronto
Scarborough. He is a scholar of digital labour and the
platform economy but has an interest in decolonizing
epistemologies ect. We finally met in person during my
recent visit in </span>Brazil, but we have known each
other for quite some time. Great energy! For the month
of June, he will be based at
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ZeMKI</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">, at the University of Bremen
(Germany), a somewhat short train ride from Amsterdam,
and he reached out because he would love to visit us.
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Finally, the Surveillance Studies Conference. A few
weeks ago, Bryce and Azadeh (Meg’s future supervisor!)
reached out to me and Marjolein Lanzig (one of the
speakers in our kick-off, from the Philosophy dept) to
see whether the upcoming Lille conference could be
relocated to Amsterdam on account of repression of
public speech fears. Luckily there was no need to do so.
But then they came back with the following email, which
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<b>From: </b>Bryce Newell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bcnewell@uoregon.edu"><bcnewell@uoregon.edu></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 9 February 2026 at 20:35<br>
<b>To: </b>Marjolein Lanzing <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.lanzing@uva.nl"><m.lanzing@uva.nl></a>,
Stefania Milan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:S.Milan@uva.nl"><S.Milan@uva.nl></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Inquiry about SSN conference<br>
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We have now confirmed that SSN2026 will take place in
Lille as planned. Happily, we have confirmation that our
host, the Université Catholique de Lille, will not impose
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However, we are also re-distributing our ongoing call for
expressions of interest in hosting future SSN conferences
(see the text of that below my signature line). We would
welcome an expression of interest from you and your
institution or research center, if you have an interest in
hosting the conference in 2028 or beyond. If you would
like to chat about what this might require, etc., please
reach out to me and I'd be happy to answer questions or to
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<b>Call for Interest in Hosting Future SSN Conferences</b></div>
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The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) and Surveillance
& Society are seeking Expressions of Interest for
hosting our biennial conference in 2028, 2030, and beyond.</div>
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We will accept Expressions of Interest on a rolling basis,
with the aim to announce the host venue of SSN2028 at the
SSN2026 conference in June 2026, in Lille, France. Those
interested in hosting the conference in 2028 should submit
an initial Expression of Interest <b>by the end of March
2026</b>. We are looking for universities and research
institutes with accessible venues that can host a 3-day
conference for at least 300 people, with at least 6
streams of parallel sessions each day, and an additional
doctoral colloquium preceding the main conference (on Day
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Please note that SSN conferences have typically been held
in Europe, and we are primarily seeking Expressions of
Interest from institutions in the European area. However,
we are also looking to expand opportunities for
surveillance-related conferences and workshops in other
parts of the world in odd-numbered years (e.g., 2027,
2029) in between our biennial flagship conferences. We
welcome expressions of interest for these opportunities as
well. The biennial SSN conference helps to fund SSN, a
UK-registered educational charity, which owns and
publishes Surveillance & Society.</div>
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