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<b>From: </b>Virginie Mamadouh via ACES Tech, Power and Policy <aces-tech@list.uva.nl><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 12:59<br>
<b>To: </b>aces-tech@list.uva.nl <aces-tech@list.uva.nl><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Virginie Mamadouh <V.D.Mamadouh@uva.nl><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Aces-tech] Public event: Digital Cathedrals - Friday 6 November at 11 am, REC B 9.22<br>
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Dear all,</p>
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We are delighted to invite you to the presentation of <b>Digital Cathedrals/Digitale Kathedralen</b> by Pascal de Man en Henrik van Leeuwen on Friday 6 November at 11am in REC B 9.22</p>
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<b>Digital Cathedrals — a travel guide to the places where the internet lives</b></p>
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The internet seems intangible, but behind the scenes it consists of very physical places: data centers in anonymous buildings, carrier hotels where networks converge, and fiber-optic cables running across the ocean floor. </p>
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<b>Digital Cathedrals </b>is an alternative travel guide to these places available at
<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="https://digitalekathedralen.nl/" originalsrc="https://digitalekathedralen.nl/" data-outlook-id="b4294cc0-9ddc-4752-bcbc-409af24aad18" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://digitalekathedralen.nl/</u></a></span> .
It started as a search for a way to explain the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the system that determines how internet traffic finds its way. Along the way, the focus shifted to the buildings and infrastructure that make the internet possible. Some of these
places play a key role in the global network; others are interesting for their architecture or history. They are the cathedrals of our time, even though most of us walk past them without noticing.</p>
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Digital Cathedrals is a project by <b>Henrik van Leeuwen</b> and <b>Pascal de Man</b>. Henrik is an infographics and visualization specialist with the Dutch National Police and also works as an independent designer and researcher. Pascal teaches coding at the
Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and works as an independent full-stack developer. Together they combine design, research and technology to make the physical world behind the internet visible and understandable.</p>
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Date: <b>Friday 6 November 2026, 11 am</b></p>
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Location: Common Room Political Science</p>
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UvA, Roeterseiland Campus, building B/C,<b> Room B 9.22</b></p>
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Please register at <span style="color: blue; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 241);">
<a href="https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XarNYGAhr6" originalsrc="https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/XarNYGAhr6" data-outlook-id="af356444-4cf6-48d4-b21e-544fb24b8018" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Digital Cathedrals - Formulier
invullen</u></a></span></p>
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Looking forward to seeing you at this occasion.</p>
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Kind regards,</p>
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Virginie Mamadouh,</p>
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Also on behalf of Valentina Carraro and Carolina Maurity Frossard</p>
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AISSR Political and Economic Geographies, UvA-GPIO</p>
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