The Gender, Law & Technology Sessions are organised by the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), coordinated by Anastasia Karagianni, Doctoral Researcher at LSTS. Launched in September 2023, the sessions reflect LSTS's continued commitment to critical engagement with the intersections of gender, law and emerging technologies.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this initiative provides a dedicated space for researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to meet monthly, exchange perspectives, and critically reflecting on selected readings. These discussions often lead to both in-depth explorations of specific themes and more open debates, the outcomes of which are presented in a series of seminars featuring contributions from both internal and external speakers.
The sessions build on the earlier Gender, Technology and Law (GTL) series, co-organised by LSTS and the Fundamental Rights Centre (FRC) of VUB.
Gender, Law & Technology Events
Practical info07/09/2026 - 15:00 - 07/09/2026 - 16:00A Legal Perspective on the (Mis)use of Data on Femtech Apps and Devices: Looking Beyond the General Data Protection Regulation
Practical info22/04/2026 - 12:30 - 22/04/2026 - 13:30From Digital Consent to Data Justice: A Feminist South- North Dialogue on AI Governance
Practical info10/03/2026 - 12:30 - 10/03/2026 - 13:30The admission of Afghan women as a particular social group. A tool against gender apartheid
Gender, Law & Technology News
GLT Sessions- Overview [updated by August 2026]
The Gender, Law & Technology Sessions are organised by the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and coordinated by Anastasia Karagianni, Doctoral Researcher at LSTS.
Other Resources
See also the recordings of these sessions organised by Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster at CPDP:
CPDP 2026 - "Gendered Digital Labour: Unseen Work, Exploitation, and Tech‑Driven Inequalities"
CPDP.ai 2025 - "The DSA as a tool in the fight against gender based violence"
CPDP 2024 - "Beyond ‘Solidarity with #TaylorSwift’: Checking Progress in the Fight Against Gender-based Online Violence"
CPDP 2022 - "Will the digital ever be non-binary? The future of (trans) data rights"
CPDP 2021 - "Automated Gender Attribution: It’s a boy! It’s a girl!, said the algorithm"
- CPDP 2020 - "Explicit Data Flows: Applying Global Privacy to Extra Sensitive Data"
- CPDP 2029 - "Online abuse of women: who is fighting back?"
- CPDP 2028 - "Gendered data bodies"
- CPDP 2017 - "Algorithmic gender discrimination, sexism and data (in)equalities"
- CPDP 2016 - "Loving the no hate web? Another look into women's digital rights"
- CPDP 2015 - "Feminist perspectives on privacy and data protection"
Older GTL Events
Practical info16/09/2019 - 12:00 - 16/09/2019 - 14:00Gender, 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.
Practical info23/10/2019 - 10:00 - 23/10/2019 - 12:00Gender, 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 10:00-12:00.
Practical info11/12/2019 - 10:00 - 11/12/2019 - 12:00Gender, 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 surveillance from gendering it?
Practical info15/01/2020 - 10:00 - 15/01/2020 - 12:00Gender, 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.
