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<p>Hello team, </p>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Hope you are all doing well. I am slowly addressing all the emails, so sorry for responding to this only now. </div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">I just wanted to remind ourselves about this workshop organized by the CIL. I think it could be a very interesting ws to participate to. In particular, our project may connect well with one of these themes, in my opinion: </div>
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<li>Infrastructure as asset class</li><li>Digital sovereignty as industrial policy</li><li>The stack as a site of power</li><li>Counter-infrastructures and building otherwise</li></ul>
<div class="moz-forward-container">There is still quite some time for the submission (deadline 15 september 2026), which would have to be a 3-pages paper; is anyone interested in thinking together what we could propose? If so, please respond to this email and
we can organize a little working group. If not, no worries, and have a wonderful weekend!</div>
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Best, <br>
Giulia<br>
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<td>Call for Position Papers: Workshop Deconstructing Infrastructural Expansion: Circulation across Sea, Land, and Sky</td>
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<td>Fri, 3 Jul 2026 15:12:45 +0200</td>
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<td>Fieke Jansen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:j.c.m.jansen2@uva.nl">
<j.c.m.jansen2@uva.nl></a></td>
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<td>Carolina Maurity Frossard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:c.maurityfrossard@uva.nl">
<c.maurityfrossard@uva.nl></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:finn.dammann@fau.de">
finn.dammann@fau.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:finn.dammann@fau.de">
<finn.dammann@fau.de></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:policante@gmail.com">
policante@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:policante@gmail.com">
<policante@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fdouzet@gmail.com">
fdouzet@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fdouzet@gmail.com">
<fdouzet@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:escorne.charlotte@gmail.com">
escorne.charlotte@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:escorne.charlotte@gmail.com">
<escorne.charlotte@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sophiehamel27@gmail.com">
sophiehamel27@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sophiehamel27@gmail.com">
<sophiehamel27@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kave.salamatian@gmail.com">
kave.salamatian@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kave.salamatian@gmail.com">
<kave.salamatian@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jonathan.guiffard@gmail.com">
jonathan.guiffard@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jonathan.guiffard@gmail.com">
<jonathan.guiffard@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lealepezron@orange.fr">
lealepezron@orange.fr</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lealepezron@orange.fr">
<lealepezron@orange.fr></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:franken@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de">
franken@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:franken@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de">
<franken@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shreyabatra881@gmail.com">
shreyabatra881@gmail.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:shreyabatra881@gmail.com">
<shreyabatra881@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu">
paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu">
<paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu></a>, Stefania Milan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:S.Milan@uva.nl">
<S.Milan@uva.nl></a>, Giulia Campaioli <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:g.campaioli@uva.nl">
<g.campaioli@uva.nl></a>, Mattéo Bard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.bard@uva.nl">
<m.bard@uva.nl></a>, Meg Kitamura <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.kitamura@uva.nl">
<m.kitamura@uva.nl></a>, Sruthi Vanguri <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:s.vanguri@uva.nl">
<s.vanguri@uva.nl></a>, Carina Romañach Nasser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:c.romanachnasser2@uva.nl">
<c.romanachnasser2@uva.nl></a>, Virginie Mamadouh <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:V.D.Mamadouh@uva.nl">
<V.D.Mamadouh@uva.nl></a>, Ouejdane Sabbah <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:o.sabbah@uva.nl">
<o.sabbah@uva.nl></a>, Pablo Zagt Hernandez <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:p.zagthernandez@uva.nl">
<p.zagthernandez@uva.nl></a>, Milan Babic <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.babic@uva.nl">
<m.babic@uva.nl></a>, Marisa Mori <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.k.mori@uva.nl">
<m.k.mori@uva.nl></a>, Valentina Carraro <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:v.carraro2@uva.nl">
<v.carraro2@uva.nl></a>, Bartosz Fingas <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bartosz.fingas@student.uva.nl">
<bartosz.fingas@student.uva.nl></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:niels@criticalinfralab.net">niels@criticalinfralab.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:niels@criticalinfralab.net"><niels@criticalinfralab.net></a></td>
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<p>Dear submarine cable friends and collegues,</p>
<p>The critical infrastructure lab, Centre for Internet and Society at CNRS, Inria and University of Lille are organizing the 2nd infrastructure workshop titled:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2026/06/workshop-announcement-and-call-for-position-papers/" originalsrc="https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2026/06/workshop-announcement-and-call-for-position-papers/">
Deconstructing Infrastructural Expansion: Circulation across Sea, Land, and Sky</a> (abstract is at the end of the email). The workshop will take place on teh 28 – 29th of January 2027 at the University of Amsterdam. </p>
<p>Important dates<br>
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<li>Short Position Paper Submission Deadline: 15th September 2026</li><li>Notification of Acceptance: 1st of November 2026</li><li>Workshop: 28 – 29th of January 2027</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for short position papers of about 3-pages (maximum 1500 words) that engage with infrastructural expansion and circulation. In general, a position paper outlines a stance on a particular issue or topic and provides arguments and evidence to
support this view. There will be no formal presentation of the papers, but they will shape the agenda and the discussion. Following the workshop, we will discuss the possibility of a joint publication that can serve as an intervention into the field.</p>
<p>Submit your position papers as PDF by sending it attached to an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:submission@criticalinfralab.net" moz-do-not-send="true">
submission@criticalinfralab.net</a> with the subject line ‘[sea|land|sky] paper title’ </p>
<p>best Fieke and Niels</p>
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<p><b>About the workshop</b></p>
<p>In the geopolitical race for technological hegemony, regimes are using digital sovereignty policies to enact control and grow their own digital economy. A central element of these industrial policies is the creation of an enabling environment for infrastructural
expansion: targeted investment in the technology sector, deprioritization of environmental and social protection, and creation of new electricity infrastructures are all meant to underwrite the build-out of submarine cables, data centres, telecommunication
infrastructures, and satellite constellations. Industrial policies are proposed to derisk supply chains on which national and economic security depend. Infrastructure space itself becomes a medium of statecraft (Easterling 2014), where power is reconfigured
through design, finance, technology, and circulation.<br>
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The world becomes ever further enmeshed in a circulation complex that both encases nature and society for generations to come. In this workshop, circulation offers a lens to understand both the workings of the entire market and its relation to that of specific
industries (Kjøsen 2018). It allows for theorization about how the externalisation of costs, regulatory capture, corporate power, and the generation of financial power that propels infrastructural expansion outward and downward, from the seabed to low earth
orbit, and how these dynamics are encoded into routing decisions, protocol design, and systems architecture.<br>
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<b>Topics of Interest</b><br>
In this second infrastructure workshop, we are interested in thinking through the consequences of the increasing private ownership of expanding communication infrastructure from the sea to the sky and methods of measuring it. We attend to the territories, people,
natural resources, and environments being sacrificed in the name of progress, economic growth, and control (Mollen et al. 2026), the violence that circulation and logistics carry with them (Cowen 2014), and critical quantitative and qualitative methods to
foreground underpinning patterns. We ask what technical inquiry can reveal that other approaches cannot: how the measurement of interconnection and autonomous systems exposes the concentration of ownership; how the materiality of compute, spectrum, and orbit
decides who gets to build and who does not; and how shifting ownership structures and modalities translate, operationally, across submarine cables, data centres, and low-orbit satellites. We therefore welcome contributions that bring network measurement, systems
design, and security research into contact with political economy and critical theory, alongside work that asks how people engage with and contest these configurations, whether alternative architectures are possible, and what it is that we want from our communication
infrastructures in the first place.<br>
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<b>Themes and topics</b><br>
The 2nd INFRASTRUCTURE Workshop brings together researchers from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Political Economy, Social and Human Geography, Computer Science, and related fields to critically examine the material, environmental, political, and socio-technical
foundations of today’s computing systems. We invite contributions that address, but are not limited to:</p>
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<li>Sea, land, and sky as infrastructural frontiers: submarine cables, terrestrial data centres, and low-orbit satellite constellations as sites of expansion, and how the three domains are being knitted into a single circulation complex.</li><li>Infrastructure as asset class: the financialisation of connectivity and computation; firms as financial instruments and infrastructures as investment objects; venture capital, private equity, and the conditions of public listings.</li><li>Externalisation and its costs: the environmental, territorial, and labour costs displaced onto people, ecologies, and resources; energy and water demand, mineral extraction, and land use; regulatory capture and algorithmic control as mechanisms of cost-shifting.</li><li>Digital sovereignty as industrial policy: state investment, deregulation, and subsidy regimes that build an enabling environment for expansion; the US-China race for technological hegemony and its peripheries.</li><li>Circulation as concept and method: theoretical and empirical engagements with circulation (Kjøsen 2018; Dyer-Witheford and Mularoni 2025); the circuit linking labour, data, advertising, logistics, and the production of desire; and what the concept reveals
that other frames miss.</li><li>Logistics, ownership, and the state: logistical power and the violence of global trade (Cowen 2014); shifting ownership structures across cables, data centres, and satellites; public, private, and hybrid arrangements; and the material limits of sovereignty
claims.</li><li>The stack as a site of power: routing and peering, protocol standards, autonomous systems, and default configurations as the places where ownership and control are quietly enacted; and what network measurement, interconnection analysis, and the study of
traffic and dependency can reveal about concentration, chokepoints, and the limits of sovereignty at the technical layer.</li><li>Counter-infrastructures and building otherwise: how engineers, communities, and publics contest, repair, and reimagine these systems; commons-based, federated, and decentralised architectures; and the technical and political conditions under which alternative
designs become viable or are foreclosed.</li></ul>
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