When: May 16th 2025, 8:30 am – 5 pm
Where: MB4.2 Macadam building, Strand campus, King’s College London
The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world. This event is hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London with support from the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP).
Registration
There is no registration fee for this event, but advance registration is required.
Programme
8:30 – 9 am Registration
9 – 9:15 am Welcome and opening remarks
9:15 – 10:45 am Panel 1: Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation
- Deception Analysis with Artificial Intelligence: An interdisciplinary perspective – Stefan Sarkadi (King’s College London)
- Information Control and Disinformation in East Africa: An Analysis of Digital Dynamics in Burundi – Steve Karake (Decent Work for All Burundi)
- Thick Fakes: Malinformation and the Future of Information Warfare – Hossein Derakshan (King’s College London)
10:45 am -11:15 am Coffee break
11:15 am -12:45 pm Panel 2: State Controls
- Algorithmic Governance and Postcoloniality: A Case Study of AI Traffic Enforcement Systems in Kerala, India – Ashwin Varghese (University of Cambridge)
- Information Controls in Sub-Saharan Africa: Digital Repression, State Censorship, and Resistance Strategies – Kehinde Adegboyega (Human Rights Journalists Network Nigeria)
- State-Controlled Typewriter Ownership: On The Poetry of The Unwritten – Mattia Natale (King’s College London)
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Panel 3: Infrastructures
- Russian Internet Infrastructure in the Age of Digital Sovereignty and Infrastructural Coercion: The case of TSPU – Dmitry Kuznetsov (University of Amsterdam)
- Societal Foundations of Cryptography – Martin R. Albrecht (King’s College London) and Rikke Bjerg Jensen (Royal Holloway University of London)
- Examining Organised Breakdowns of the Internet as a Means of Information Controls – Gowhar Farooq (King’s College London)
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm Coffee break
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm Civil society roundtable discussion on information controls
4:45 pm – 5 pm Closing remarks
For any inquiries, please contact the organisers:
Dr Ashwin Mathew: ashwin.mathew@kcl.ac.uk
Gowhar Farooq: m.g.farooq@kcl.ac.uk