SOVEREIGN IDENTITY CRISIS: STATE, SELF, AND COLLECTIVE IN A DIGITAL AGE EVENT
Hosted by iLIT and the Temple Law Review
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
IN-PERSON: SHUSTERMAN HALL, PHILADELPHIA PA
ONLINE: ZOOM
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
All times are Philadelphia local time (EST). Online participants will receive a Zoom link the day of the event.
9:00 AM – Welcome
Welcome Remarks, Program Overview and Keynote Introduction – Laura Bingham, iLIT Executive Director
9:30 AM – Keynote
Nanjala Nyabola, Author, Political Analyst and Activist
10:00 AM – Panel 1: The Sovereign State
Beth Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
Laura DeNardis, Professor and endowed Chair in Tech, Ethics, and Society, Georgetown University
Marguerite C. Walter, Attorney-Adviser, Political-Military Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser
Rachel Hulvey, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Arewa, Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law, Temple University
11:15 AM – Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 AM – Virtual Keynote
E. Tendayi Achiume, Inaugural Alicia Miñana Professor of Law, UCLA Law; United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Panel 2: Sovereignty, Communities, and Collectives
Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
J. Nathan Matias, Assistant Professor, Cornell University Departments of Communications and Information Science; Founder and Director, Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab)
Dragana Kaurin, Executive Director and Founder, Localization Lab
John Newman, Deputy Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission and Professor, University of Miami School of Law
Moderator: Salil Mehra, Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government, Temple University
2:15 PM – Break
2:30 PM – Panel 3: The Sovereign Individual
Cynthia Conti-Cook, Technology Fellow, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice, Ford Foundation
Juan Ortiz Freuler, Researcher and Advocate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; Co-initiator, Non-Aligned Tech Movement
Siena Anstis, Senior Legal Advisor, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Steven Feldstein, Author and Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict and Governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Moderator: Caroline DeCell, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University
3:30 PM – Concluding Reflections
Marina Kaljurand, Member of European Parliament; former Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
4:00 PM – Closing and Reception
Rachel Rebouché, Dean and James E. Beasley Professor of Law