cfp 'Doing digital identities'

[Stephan Scheel]

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Dear all,

 

The ERC-funded collaborative research project “Doing Digital Identities” (DigID) is pleased to invite submissions for a two-day on-site workshop titled ‘Rethinking the Reconfiguration of State, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in Digital Statecraft’.

 

The workshop will serve as a platform for developing selected papers towards a thematic special issue.  The main focus of the workshop is to explore how official identities are done and reconfigured with digital identification devices such as chip-equipped eID-cards, centralized biometric databases or digital identity wallets. We also look for contributions that study how the move from paper-based to digital means of identification reconfigures the relationship between state authorities and citizens across diverse political, social, and technical contexts. The workshop will be hosted from May 28-29, 2026, at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

 

We will be able to provide accommodation and pay for travel costs for invited participants (see more details on this in the attached call for papers).

 

We encourage interdisciplinary work and welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines and fields of study, in particular work at the intersections of citizenship studies, science and technology studies (STS), critical data studies, and related fields.

 

Please circulate this call within your networks and among colleagues you think might be interested!

 

Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Stephan (on behalf of the DigID-team)