Below, please find the call for participation in the TILTing Perspectives 2017 conference as well as the 2nd European edition of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC-Europe). The conference has tracks focused on Data Science, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, and Privacy (including PLSC-Europe). The conference will be in Tilburg (Netherlands), from May 17-19, 2017. Deadlines for all submissions are November 20. Information is also available at http://www.tilburguniversity.e du/tilting2017. Cheers, Bryce (apologies for cross-posting) Deze email van Tilburg University *online bekijken* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/txt4127855/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux>. <http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/> Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society TILT NEWSLETTER Extra edition 12 September 2016 TILTing Perspectives 2017: 'Regulating a connected world' 17 - 19 May 2017, Tilburg University Call for papers Conference TILTing 2017 brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and civil society at the intersection of law and regulation, technology, and society to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and suggest answers to contemporary challenges related to technological innovation. The conference will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for papers. The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. But within the context of these general tracks, we are adopting an open and bottom-up organizational strategy: it is up to you (the participants) to determine what happens at the conference and how. With that in mind, we invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, to propose papers, workshops, panels, mini-symposia and the like, both within and in addition to the large tracks. If you have an idea and would like to check whether it fits the open theme of the conference, feel free to contact: *tilting@tilburguniversity.edu* <tilting@tilburguniversity.edu> <tilting@tilburguniversity.edu> Conference theme Technology is transforming society on many fronts. In recent years, we have seen the rise of social media and the sharing economy, a sustained move from atoms to bits, and the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, smart devices, and robotics. Along with these developments we see a continuous stream of new legal and regulatory issues. For every problem solved, two new problems seem to surface. *Everything seems to be connected* When looking at current phenomena, it is particularly notable that that everything seems to be connected. Individuals are being connected through networks and data flows from and through connected devices; the field of Data Science seems to revolve around connecting the dots between various bits of data and between data and persons. Disciplines and regulatory domains are also increasingly connected: contemporary issues require involvement from legal scholars, regulation and governance scholars, and social scientists, who must work together, but who also occasionally clash. Similarly, different domains of law become intertwined, such as public law and private law or data protection and intellectual property, but do not always coexist harmoniously. Regulation is no longer the prerogative of sovereign states; rather, complex interconnected multi-level governance arrangements are at play. *'Regulating a connected world'* These developments and transformations give good reason to adopt 'Regulating a connected world' as the theme for the 5th Bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society. While recent TILTing conferences had a specific focus, ‘robotics and neurotechnologies’ in 2011, ‘health and surveillance’ in 2015, the 2017 conference will open the floor to an entire spectrum of topics and disciplines under the broad umbrella of law, technology and society. *Five large tracks* The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. Tracks *Privacy track and PLSC-Europe* The definition and boundaries of privacy, as both a philosophical concept and a legal right, have been hotly debated in recent years. Indeed, emerging technologies have continually challenged traditional conceptions of privacy that relate to “private life,” the public/private dichotomy, or property (e.g. “my home is my castle”). *Read more * <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925806/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Healthcare track* Healthcare has long been a “protected sector” that relies on a principle of confidentiality between the individuals needing care and the trained professionals able to provide that care. Without this principle of confidentiality, patients would be reluctant to provide the information professionals find necessary to addressing illness and other health concerns and professionals would be unable to provide adequate care to patients. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925807/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Intellectual property track* The digital economy is one of the most important drivers of innovation and economic growth today. Intellectual property rights, conceived as institutions designed to accelerate technological progress, are its important part. Yet, there is mounting criticism that present day’s design of IP rights and/or their enforcement sometimes works against its own purposes. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925808/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Data Science track* Data science —the practice of organizing, analyzing and using new sources of digital data—, is transforming societies around the world, but that transformation is largely invisible. Algorithmic sorting and categorization, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data emitted through people’s use of technology, from the internet of things and by smart environments are contributing to new types of visibility and changing power dynamics between people, corporations and governments. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925809/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> Call for papers We welcome research papers, position papers, work-in-progress presentations and other contributions. We value multidisciplinary work highly and are particularly interested in papers that illustrate a multidisciplinary approach, yet are also open to specialized papers on a relevant topic from any scientific discipline. Accepted papers will be provided to the participants of the conference if authors want to. On the basis of the material submitted, special issues, book volumes and other publications may be produced based on review procedures to be decided. Potential authors will be provided information on these opportunities at a later date, but note that submitting work to the conference does not create any obligation to publish. Abstracts (and full papers) will need to be submitted into the conference system: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017> ------------------------------ *General call for symposia, panels and workshops* TILTing 2017 is open for symposia, panels and workshops on specific topics. You can submit proposals for activities spanning (multiples) of 90 minutes (the standard session duration) on specific topics within the overall conference scope or one of the designated tracks. Please enter your proposal into the conference system as a single entry (using the appropriate label) including title, abstract, names of the intended speakers, and abstracts of the individual contributions if desired. *PLSC-Europe call for papers* PLSC is a paper workshop. There are no published proceedings, and after the event, papers are not available. Because authors’ drafts are works in progress, we do not publicly release these writings, nor do we publicize them (no Tweeting, blogging, etc.), as authors’ ideas are often inchoate and need incubation for full development. At PLSC, paper workshops are led by a "commenter" who facilitates a discussion among participants on an author’s paper. Authors are encouraged to participate in "listening" mode. There are no panels or talking head events at PLSC. All participants are expected to read and be prepared to discuss one paper per session, and thus PLSC requires significant preparation. We recommended that participants devote 1.5 to 2 days of reading to prepare prior to the conference. If you want to have your paper discussed in a PLSC setting you are invited to submit an abstract for the PLSC track in the conference system ( *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017>). Please select the PLSC-Europe track choice during submission. Important dates *20 November 2016* Symposium, panel and workshop proposals *20 November 2016* Submission of paper abstracts and PLSC-Europe proposals *16 December 2016* Notification of acceptance *7 April 2017* Submission of full paper for PLSC *28 April 2017* Submission of full paper, other tracks Conference website All information about TILTing Perspectives 2017 'Regulating a connected world' can be found on: *www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilting2017* <http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilting2017> Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) - T 013 4668199 *c.r.nauta@tilburguniversity.edu* <c.r.nauta@tilburguniversity.edu> www.tilt.nl @TilburgU_TILT Copyright © 2014 Tilburg University. All rights reserved.