Date: May 16, 2025
Location: King’s College, London
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025
The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London and the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) invite submissions for a one-day symposium exploring the intersections of digital technologies and power, by examining contemporary issues involving information controls. This symposium aims to build connections by fostering critical conversations between scholars and practitioners working on information controls.
We welcome abstracts of 300 words (max) addressing the following themes:
- Understudied Geographies of Information Controls
- Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Studying Information Controls
Discussions may include, but are not limited to:
- The social, political, and economic conditions that enable information controls
- The roles of different actors in perpetuating, supporting, or resisting information controls
- Contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to studying information control mechanisms
- Experiences of practitioners and scholars conducting fieldwork in contexts of censorship, misinformation, and digital surveillance
This symposium will be of interest to upcoming and established scholars working on censorship, mis/disinformation, digital infrastructures, and other related areas.
Submission Guidelines
- Abstracts should be around 300 words (excluding references)
- Submit your abstracts via https://forms.office.com/e/dHQ3dzUaRX by March 31, 2025
- Those selected will be notified by the second week of April 2025
Travel Support
Limited domestic travel support will be available for a few speakers traveling from outside London.
For any inquiries, please contact:
Dr Ashwin Mathew: ashwin.mathew@kcl.ac.uk
Gowhar Farooq: m.g.farooq@kcl.ac.uk