On the occasion of the launch of the Center for Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG), as a part of the CULTMED project, at the Department of Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Professor Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University in the Netherlands will hold a guest lecture entitled ‘A progressive politics of technology: democratic process, data, and justice’, on Monday, March 18, 2024, from 17:30 in the library of the Institute. Linnet Taylor is a Professor of International Data Management at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on digital data, representation, and democracy, with a particular focus on issues of transnational governance. Her work on group privacy and data justice is used in technology governance discussions in countries around the world. She also led the Global Data Justice project (2018-23), intending to develop a social justice-based framework for the governance of data technologies on a global scale. Her work was supported by the Luminate Foundation and the EU AI Fund. She is a member of the Dutch Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie).
Dr Lilian Richieri Hanania held the lecture “Twenty Years of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: From Negotiation to Implementation”
As part of the Culturelink Guest Lecture Series, on the 13th of October 2025, at the Library of the Institute for Development and International Relations, Dr Lilian Richieri Hanania, UNESCO Expert, Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité, attorney and researcher...
