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Gender, Technology & Law

The Gender, Technology & Law Sessions are a collaborative initiative of the Law, Science, Technology and Society Research Group (LSTS) and the Fundamental Rights Centre (FRC) at the VUB.

The initiative aims at investigating the intersections between gender, technology and law through an interdisciplinary approach. Outcomes of these investigations but also more explorative debates and open questions are presented in a series of seminars, both by internal and external speakers. 

 

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Gender, Technology & Law Events

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Tuesday 6 July from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology & Law session with Argyro (Iro) Chatzinikolaou - Sexting amongst children: should it fall within the scope of criminal legislation?

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in May, June and July 2021 , after its spring and autumn cycles. The third online...

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Tuesday 15 June from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology & Law session: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga on the consequences of missing diversity considerations in the development of algorithms

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in May, June and July 2021 , after its spring and autumn cycles. The second online...

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Tuesday 25 May from 15:00 to 16:30

Gender, Technology & Law session: Rachel Adams and Nóra Ni Loideain on Female Servitude by Design and Default? Gendering AI Virtual Personal Assistants, Law and Ethics

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in May, June and July 2021, after its spring and autumn cycles. The first online session...

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Tuesday 27 April from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology & Law session: Stefano Osella on Constitutional Law and Discipline: Fundamental Rights as a Technology of Power

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. The last online session of the current cycle will be...

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Tuesday 23 March from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology & Law session: Tuba Bircan on Gender-biased AI

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. The second online session of the currrent cycle will...

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Tuesday 9 February from 12:30 to 14:00

Gender, Technology & Law session: Olga Jurasz on online harms and online violence against women – towards a (law) reform

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021. The first online session of the new cycle will be...

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Tuesday 15 December from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology and Law Session: Gianclaudio Malgieri on vulnerability and gender in data protection

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020. The third online session of the new cycle will...

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Tuesday 24 November from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology and Law Session: Sara De Vido on International and European Legal Perspectives on Online Gender-Based Violence Against Women

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020. The second online session of the new cycle will...

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Tuesday 27 October from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology & Law session: Petra Molnar on Immigration, Iris-Scanning, and iBorderCTRL

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020. The first online session of the new cycle will...

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Wednesday 13 May from 10:00 to 11:30

Gender, Technology & Law -session on gendered law making: the case of human trafficking, by Amy Weatherburn

The 5th session of the Gender, Technology & Law series will be animated by Amy Weatherburn (FRC). The session will be focused on gendered law making: the case of human trafficking and will be...

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Wednesday 15 January from 10:00 to 12:00

Gender, Law and Technology on "Sex robots through the feminist lenses" by Carlotta Rigotti

Since the 1970s, feminisms have stressed the intersection between gender and technology. Yet, while being mainly focused on the female access to technology, reproductive technologies and a cyborg...

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Wednesday 11 December from 10:00 to 12:00

Gender, Technology & Law gatherings: Guest lecture by Nayantara Ranganathan on "All Watched Over By Aunties Of Loving Grace: Safety as Surveillance in India"

Gendering Surveillance is a project that surfaces continuities between existing systems of social control and new technologies of surveillance. The questions it raises are: What can be learned about...

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Wednesday 23 October from 10:00 to 12:00

Gender, Technology & Law Series: A topology of terms with Olga Gkotsopoulou

The 2nd session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC, under the title: “Gender, Technology & Law: A topology of terms”, will take place on 23 October 2019 at...

Crossroads
Monday 16 September from 12:00 to 14:00

Gender, Technology & Law: A kind of mapping, by Gloria González Fuster

1st session of the Gender, Technology & Law series, co-organised by LSTS and FRC. Session title: “Gender, Technology & Law: A kind of mapping”, by Gloria González Fuster .

Gender, Technology & Law News

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Tuesday 15 December

Next edition of Gender, Technology and Law Sessions (February - April 2021)

[Series of sessions] The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce the next edition of its online sessions to take place in February, March and April 2021, following the autumn...

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Monday 12 October

Gender, Technology and Law Sessions October - December 2020

[Series of sessions] The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce a new series of online sessions to take place in October, November and December 2020. The Gender, Technology...

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Thursday 22 April

Summer edition of Gender, Technology and Law Sessions (May-July 2021)

The Gender, Technology & Law initiative is happy to announce the next edition of its online sessions to take place in May, June and July following the spring cycle. The Gender, Technology &...

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Sunday 17 November

Looking forward to the Feminist Data Protection Workshop (20 November 2019, Berlin)

LSTS is looking forward to the Workshop on Feminist Data Protection , which will take place place on Wednesday 20 November 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop is organized with the support of the...

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Wednesday 22 May

Workshop "Feminist Data Protection" in Berlin: Submit your abstract by 15 June 2019

Forum Privacy (‘Forum Privatheit’), a German research project, is hosting an exploratory, multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop on feminist approaches to data protection in Berlin, on 20 November 2019...

Other Resources

Please find here a collection of resources about gender, technology and law.