Dear colleagues, You are warmly invited to attend the third edition of our online Data Sovereignty Seminar Series on 16 June at 17.00 (CEST) with Nick Couldry (LSE) and Ulises Mejias (SUNY) on resisting data colonialism. Please follow the link below to register, where you can also find the recordings of our past seminars. Registration: https://brussels-school.be/event/data-sovereignty-seminar-series Seminar #3: Resisting Data Colonialism:The Benefits and Limits of Data Sovereignty Description In their book The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019), Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving the way for a further stage of capitalism. Resisting it will require strategies that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries, including the articulation of new forms of sovereignty. By reviewing the benefits and limits of these emerging proposals for digital sovereignty—including the ones currently being discussed in the EU—the authors will explore how effectively this concept can inform government and public responses against emerging forms of data colonialism. Programme 17:00-17:05: Welcome and introduction by Orsolya Gulyás & Clément Perarnaud (BSoG) 17:05-17:25: Presentation by Nick Couldry (LSE) and Ulises Mejias (SUNY) 17:25-17:35: Discussion by Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) 17:35-18:00: Q&A with the audience Time: June 16, 2022 at 05:00 PM CEST The Data Sovereignty seminar series is jointly organised by the Center for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance and the UNU-CRIS/VUB Chair on Digital Sovereignty. Best wishes, Orsolya Gulyás and Clément Perarnaud ORSOLYA GULYÁS PhD Researcher +32 485 980 172 Brussels School of Governance<https://brussels-school.be/> Pleinlaan 5 - 1050 Brussels