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SUMMARY:Critical Concepts Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Critical Concepts Writing Workshop\n\n24–26 April 2025Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)\n \nThe Critical Concepts Writing Workshop is a key event within the project Critical Reorientation in the Age of Digital Technology: Intersections between Human Craft\, Geopolitics\, and Artistic Intervention\, and is part of the CHCI Initiative: Human Craft in the Age of Digital Technologies. \nThe Workshop invites 22 senior and early-career researchers to develop a book of 100 critical concepts collaboratively. Preparatory online meetings will be held before the workshop in Singapore to set up the collective writing. During the on-site Workshop\, participants will engage in “book sprints” to produce interdisciplinary entries in text\, images\, drawings\, and code\, fostering alternative knowledge production and experimental approaches to conceptualisation. \nMORE
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/tarn/event/critical-concepts-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)\, Block 6 Lock Rd\, #01-09/10 Gillman Barracks\, Singapore\, 108934\, Singapore
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251116
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SUMMARY:The Chip Era and Digital Governance Joint-Project Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Chip Era and Digital Governance Joint-Project Workshop\n13–15 November 2025\nNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Hsinchu\, Taiwan\n \nOn 13–15 November 2025\, the International Center for Culture Studies (ICCS) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and the Trans-Asia Research Network (TARN) convened The Chip Era and Digital Governance workshop. Held in Hsinchu\, the global nexus of semiconductor manufacturing\, the event marked a critical juncture in a transnational research initiative designed to interrogate the material foundations of the contemporary world order. Crucially\, the programme grounded high-level theory in industrial reality through strategically timed field visits. The workshop commenced with a tour of the Nano Facility Center at NYCU\, which immediately preceded a special address by Jack Sun\, former CTO of TSMC. Sun’s technical and strategic insights provided a vital industrial context for the academic debates that followed. This engagement with the physical infrastructure of the “chip era” concluded on the final day with a separate visit to the TSMC Innovation Museum\, further immersing scholars in the logistical complexities that underpin the digital economy. \nMORE
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/tarn/event/the-chip-era-and-digital-governance-joint-project-workshop/
LOCATION:National Yangming Chiao Tung University\, 1001 University Road\, Hsinchu\, Taiwan\, Hsinchu\, Taiwan
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SUMMARY:Synopsis: Digital Deception   Surveillance Technologies and Information Manipulation
DESCRIPTION:Digital Deception\n\nSurveillance Technologies and Information Manipulation\n  \n11-12 June\, 2026\nThe Chip Era and Digital Governance Forum 11\n\n📌Date and Time: January 30\, 2026\, from 14:00 to 16:30\, Taipei Time (GMT+8)📌Format: Online📌Online meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/qzz-pn…📌Forum Language: English \n📌Synopsis \nDigital technologies reshape the governance techniques as well as social patterns and habits. The recent promotion of smart cities or safe cities as an obvious step in the creation of a safer\, more just\, sustainable\, and convenient future seems an ideal and obvious choice for the states. \nHowever\, urban surveillance technologies\, a part of smart cities\, are endorsed under the premise of fighting crime and making a safer environment. While certainly there is an element of perceived safety due to the omnipresence of the public surveillance cameras\, the features such as facial recognition technology and data collection are often not mentioned to the public. Additionally\, the technological cooperations among countries generate possibilities for expansion of foreign geopolitical and socio-economic implications\, including those around privacy\, national sovereignty\, and citizens’ rights. The withholding of certain information regarding the architecture of digital technologies and their origin could be interpreted as information manipulation. \nWhy are certain pieces of information withheld from the public? What are the risks of global technological cooperation and the digital expansion of foreign countries in various regions? Do smart cities with surveillance technologies protect citizens or give the state more control? These are just some of the issues that we hope to address. \n📌Speakers \nWho’s Watching? Digital Surveillance in Governance and How It Affects Us \n💬Jonas Lund-Tønnesen \nResearcher\, Department of Government\, University of Bergen\, Norway \nJonas Lund-Tønnesen holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo\, Norway. His research focuses on digitalization of the public sector\, including artificial intelligence\, digital surveillance\, and digital changes in organizations. Lund-Tønnesen’s recent work explores the role of digital surveillance in governance\, and the effects surveillance has on citizens’ behavior and attitudes in different settings\, such as during a crisis and in the workplace. \nSurveillance Creep in South Africa’s ‘Not-So-Safe’ Cities \n💬Heidi Swart \nInvestigative Journalist\, South African \nHeidi Swart is a South African freelance investigative journalist. She writes about espionage\, security\, surveillance\, and data privacy issues in both the public and private spheres. She’s written extensively about illegal government surveillance\, interception technologies\, cyberspying and cybersecurity\, risks to critical communications infrastructure\, social media monitoring\, data mining\, video surveillance\, artificial intelligence in surveillance\, biometrics\, and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on surveillance practices. \nSynthetic Lies: How Deepfakes Reshape Power\, Participation\, and Public Trust in Democratic Systems \n💬Maria Pawelec \nResearch Associate\, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)\, University of Tübingen\, Germany \nMaria Pawelec is a Research Associate at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen. She has a background in political science and works on technology and media ethics. Her research interests include new technologies and democracy\, AI ethics\, deepfakes\, disinformation\, technology and platform governance. \n📌OrganizerInternational Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS)\, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung UniversitySubproject II: The Chip Era and Digital Governance (Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu) \n📌Funding SourceHigher Education Sprout Project\, Ministry of Education (MOE) in TaiwanMOE-SPROUT 2.0\, Conflict\, Justice\, Decolonization: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century \nICCS Director and Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu \n✴️Research Cluster｜Sub-project 2: The Chip Era and Digital Governance \n✴️Principal Investigator｜Joyce C.H. Liu
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/tarn/event/synopsis-digital-deception-surveillance-technologies-and-information-manipulation/
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SUMMARY:ISSH2026 Conference: The Social in the Digital
DESCRIPTION:The Social in the Digital\n11-12 June\, 2026\nTon Duc Thang University\n19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street\, Tan Phong Ward\, District 7\, Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam \n \nThe 4th International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH 2026) is the fourth edition of our international conference series\, following three previously successful events. This conference is organized by Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam\, University of Melbourne in Australia; National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan; Jadavpur University in India; Wako University in Japan; Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine in Sri Lanka; Nueva Vizcaya State University in Philippines; Oakton Community College in USA; Centre for Research in Policy\, Communication and Society in India; TARN-Transit Asia Research Network in Taiwan. \n\nImportant Dates \n\nAbstract Submission: 31st January 2026.\nNotification of paper acceptance: 28th February 2026.\nFull paper submission: 5th April 2026.\nRegistration and payment: 10th April 2026.\nConference dates: 11th & 12th of June 2026.\n\nREGISTRATION \nConference Fee \n\nAuthors (Direct): 150 USD/ paper\nAuthors (Mater student/ PhD Candidate): 100 USD/ paper\nAuthors (Student): 50 USD/ paper\nFrom Sponsoring Institutions: 50% of Registration fee\nCo-authors (Direct): 75 USD/ person\nListener: free\n\nNote: \nThe registration fee does not include bank transfer or transaction charges. All transfer fees must be borne by the participant. \nPlease contact us regarding childcare as needed. We will arrange care in consultation and according to your needs. \nSUBMISSION PROCESS \nSubmission process and basis for inclusion [via Link on website when ready] \n\nAbstracts of approximately 200 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.\nAuthors are invited to submit unpublished\, original work as full conference paper of 2\,500 to at most 3\,500 words including abstract and references.\nManuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).\nEach manuscript should include 5 to 6 keywords.\nConference languages: English\nAll submitted abstracts/ papers will go through a blind peer review process and those accepted will be published in conference proceedings.\nPlease send your abstract and a short bionote to the conference email: issh2026@tdtu.edu.vn\n\n\nMORE
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/tarn/event/issh2026-conference-the-social-in-the-digital/
LOCATION:Ton Duc Thang University\, 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street\, Tan Phong Ward\, District 7\, Ho Chi Minh City\, Viet Nam
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SUMMARY:2026 TARN Meeting (Kyung Hee University\, Korea)
DESCRIPTION:2026 TARN Meeting\n\nChip Era: Governance\, Infrastructure\, Labour\, Mobility\n \nGlobal Campus\, Kyung Hee University\, Korea \nDates: 4–6 September 2026\nThe 2026 TARN Meeting will be held from 4th to 6th September 2026 at the Global Campus\, Kyung Hee University\, Korea. Jointly organised by the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN)\, the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (CCCS)\, Kyung Hee University\, and the International Center for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, the Meeting is conceived as a mid-term sharing and commenting session for a collaborative two-volume book project examining how semiconductors\, as the foundation of digital infrastructures\, are reshaping geopolitics\, governance\, labour\, and capital in the twenty-first century. Participants will present the progress of their respective chapters\, with the collective aim of submitting full manuscripts by the end of 2026. \nThe project comprises two volumes published under the Routledge Studies on Think Asia series: \nVolume I: The Chip Era: Digital Governance and the Infrastructural Reordering of Sovereignty in Asia and Beyond \nVolume II: Digital Enclosures in the Chip Era: Labour\, Mobility\, and Infrastructural Precarity \n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nName\nTitle\nAffiliation\n\n\nBrett Neilson\nProfessor\nInstitute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University\, Australia\n\n\nSandro Mezzadra\nProfessor\nDepartment of the Arts\, University of Bologna\, Italy\n\n\nNed Rossiter\nProfessor\nInstitute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University\, Australia\n\n\nAlex Taek-Gwang Lee\nProfessor\nDepartment of British and American Culture Studies\, Kyung Hee University\, South Korea\n\n\nWei-I Lee\nChief Editor\nVoices of Photography\n\n\nJoyce C. H. Liu\nProfessor / Director\nInternational Centre for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\nMegha Shrivastava\nAssistant Professor\nPES University\, India\n\n\nJagannath Panda\nProfessor\nInstitute for Security and Development Policy\, Sweden\n\n\nRoger Chi-Feng Liu\n Assistant Professor\nNational Sun Yat-Sen University\, Taiwan\n\n\nNguyen Thi Trang\n Assistant Professor\nFaculty of History\, Thai Nguyen University of Education\, Vietnam\n\n\nPawan Adhikari\nResearch Fellow\nCentre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy (CESIF)\, Nepal\n\n\nLungani Nelson Hlongwa\nPostdoctoral Fellow\nInternational Centre for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\nJasmin Dall’Agnola\nSenior Research and Teaching Associate\nMedia and Internet Governance\, IKMZ\, University of Zurich\n\n\nKatarzyna Szpargała\nPhD Candidate\nInstitute of Social Research and Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\nLou Mo\nArtist and Curator\nn/a\n\n\nMusquiqui Chihying\nArtist\, Researcher\, and Experimental Film Director\nn/a\n\n\nRanabir Samaddar\nProfessor / Director\nMahanirban Calcutta Research Group\, Kolkata\, India\n\n\nMonika Verma\nMSCA Researcher\nDepartment of Asian Studies\, Faculty of Arts\, Palacký University Olomouc\n\n\nTzu-Kai Liu\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Ethnology\, National Chengchi University\, Taiwan\n\n\nDolma Tsering\nPostdoctoral Fellow\nInternational Centre for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\nMaidul Islam\nProfessor of Political Science\nCentre for Studies in Social Sciences\, Calcutta\, India\n\n\nQi Li\nPhD Candidate / Researcher\nInstitute of Social Research and Cultural Studies / International Centre for Cultural Studies\, NYCU\, Taiwan\n\n\nPoonam Sharma\nPostdoctoral Fellow\nInternational Centre for Cultural Studies\, NYCU\, Taiwan\n\n\nNguyen Nu Nguyet Anh\nProfessor\nFaculty of Sociology\, University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam\n\n\nYu-Fan Chiu\nAssociate Professor\nSchool of Law\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\nLisa Yuk-ming Leung\nProfessor\nDepartment of Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University\, Hong Kong\n\n\nNgai Keung Chan\nAssistant Professor\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong\n\n\nAbhijit Roy\nProfessor / Chair\nDepartment of Film Studies\, Jadavpur University / Centre for Research in Policy\, Communication and Society\, Kolkata\n\n\nRafał Smoczyński\nHead of Religious Studies Department\nInstitute of Philosophy and Sociology\, Polish Academy of Sciences\n\n\nManuela Bojadzijev\nProfessor / Director\nInstitute for European Ethnology and Berlin Institute for Migration Studies\, Humboldt-University of Berlin\, Germany\n\n\nSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury\nProfessor\nMahanirban Calcutta Research Group\, Kolkata\, India\n\n\nKo-Lun Chen\nPostdoctoral Fellow\nInternational Centre for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/tarn/event/2026-tarn-meeting-kyung-hee-university-korea/
LOCATION:Global Campus\, Kyung Hee University\, Korea
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