LAW, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (LSTS) RESEARCH GROUP

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Tuesday 28 January

The exposed psyche and the constitutional ambiguities of mind-reading: István Böröcz @LAILEC 2020 (Leuven, 18 February)

[Talk] István Böröcz will participate at the 2020 Leuven AI Law & Ethics Conference (LAILEC) , which will take place on 18 February 2020 at Leuven. This year's theme is 'The Good, the Bad and the...

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Monday 27 January

LSTS present at ACM FAT*2020 Conference in Barcelona (27-30 January 2020)

[Conference] From 27 to 30 January 2020, the ACM FAT* conference takes place in Barcelona . FAT* is a premier conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency in the tech sector, and has...

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Monday 20 January

Legal and technical challenges of explainable AI: Gianclaudio Malgieri at CERRE Executive Seminar (Brussels, 21 January 2020)

[Talk] On 21 January 2020, Gianclaudio Malgieri participates as discussant in the Executive Seminar on Legal & Technical Challenges of Explainable AI . The event is organised by the Centre on...

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Monday 20 January

New PhD Position on Democratic Governance of Surveillance

[Vacancy] The VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies , which is based at the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group , is supported by the research groups CRiS and imec-SMIT , and is...

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Thursday 9 January

Fairness, Computation and the GDPR | ALTEP-DP Kick-off event (Brussels, 20 January 2020)

[Event] Marking the public launch of the project Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics and Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the General Data...

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Upcoming events

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3 February from 18:00 to 21:00

Launch of VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies

Launch of the VUB Research Chair in Surveillance Studies At Botanique, Brussels Address: Koningsstraat 236, 1210 Sint-Joost-ten-Node RSVP: thierry@privacysalon.org 18u Welcome with Drinks and nibbles...

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11 February from 18:00 to 21:00

Francqui Chair lectures: Inaugural lecture by Serge Gutwirth

Between 11 February and 31 March 2020, Prof Serge Gutwirth , as part of his Francqui Chair 2019-2020 mandate, will give a series of evening lectures at the University of Namur. The inaugural lecture...

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14 February from 17:30 to 19:30

Territories of Exception: The Architecture of State Violence in Rio De Janeiro

Lecture given by Fernanda Bruno (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) This lecture is part of the StadsSalonUrbains Lecture Series co-organised by LSTS through the BCUS (brussels centre for urban...

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10 March from 12:30 to 13:30

Brussels Privacy Hub - Doctoral seminar with Olga Gkotsopoulou

For more information on the Brussels Privacy Hub doctoral seminars, see here .

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12 March from 12:00 to 14:00

"Specifying the GDPR: Member States perspectives" series - Germany

‘One continent, one law’ is a motto that has been connected to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to emphasize its key role for overcoming the fragmentation of the European Union (EU) data...

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