<![CDATA[Beyond EVE: Events]]> de-DE Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:18:04 +0200 <![CDATA[Courage: A Conceptual History]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/courage-a-conceptual-history Courage has always been a central virtue in the Western ethical tradition, but its meaning has changed considerably over time. In antiquity, courage signified fearlessness in the face of bodily injury and death, whether passively endured (like Socrates and Christ) or actively risked (like Achilles and Alexander the Great).

Today, however, such "physical courage", as it is called, tends to be depreciated in favor of "moral courage", defined by Sidgwick as a readiness to “face the pains and dangers of social disapproval in the performance of what one believes to be one’s duty”.

Why did this shift occur, and what is its significance for the future of courage? These were the questions Skidelsky addressed in his talk.

Edward Skidelsky, University of Exeter, co-author of How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life.

Commentator: Aner Barzilay, independent researcher and Visiting Fellow at the IWM.

Introduction: Ludger Hagedorn, Permanent Fellow at the IWM.

]]> ]]> Sun, 10 Jul 2022 15:18:04 +0200 <![CDATA[Kant's Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/kants-tribunal-of-reason-legal-metaphor-and-normativity-in-the-critique-of-pure-reason Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from the law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Møller shows that they are central to Kant's account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason as having a structure mirroring that of a legal system in a natural right framework. Her study shows that Kant's aim is to make cognizers become similar to authorized judges within such a system, by proving the legitimacy of the laws and the conditions under which valid judgments can be pronounced. These elements consolidate her conclusion that reason's systematicity is legal systematicity.

With Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Jakob Huber (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Sofie Møller (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Susan Shell (Boston College), Martin Sticker (University of Bristol), Marcus Willaschek (Normative Orders, Goethe University)

Moderated by Lara Scaglia (University of Warsaw)

Organised by Sofie Møller (Author)

For further information about the book: Click here...

]]> ]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:18:14 +0100 <![CDATA[German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/organisations/german-national-academy-of-sciences-leopoldina The Leopoldina originated in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now has 1,600 members from almost all branches of science. In 2008, the Leopoldina was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences and, in this capacity, was invested with two major objectives: representing the German scientific community internationally, and providing policymakers and the public with science-based advice.

The Leopoldina champions the freedom and appreciation of science. It promotes a scientifically enlightened society and the responsible application of scientific insight for the benefit of humankind and the natural world. In its interdisciplinary discourse, the Academy transcends thematic, political, and cultural boundaries. It is also an advocate of human rights.

It is the role of the Leopoldina, in co-operation with other national and international organisations, to identify and analyse scientific issues of social importance. The Leopoldina presents its policy recommendations in a scientifically qualified, independent, transparent, and prospective manner, ever mindful of the standards and consequences of science.

]]> ]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:48:33 +0200 <![CDATA[Normative Orders]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/organisations/goethe-universitat-frankfurt-am-main-normativeorders Freedom and justice, tolerance and participation: the researchers in the Research Centre "Normative Orders" of Goethe University are reflecting on such rights and principles in social life. How are political, legal, religious or economic orders established, and how do they change? How do structures of power crystallize in such processes of social dynamics? How are power and life chances distributed, on national and transnational levels? The topic is of high social relevance: we need to reflect on a world the orders of which are defended with power and yet are still fragile. The research of the Centre focuses on current social conflicts about a fair order of society in times of globalization, as well as its long prehistory. It examines the normative ideas that play a role in such processes and conflicts, as well as how they can be criticized or justified. Above all, the fundamentals of politics and law are highlighted in the humanities and social sciences.

Such questions are complex, and it for this reason that the Research Centre "Normative Orders" of Goethe University in Frankfurt works on an interdisciplinary basis: from philosophy, history, political science and law to ethnology, economics, sociology and theology.

]]> ]]> Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:40:40 +0200 <![CDATA[IE University - The Center for the Governance of Change (CGC)]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/organisations/ie-university-the-center-for-the-governance-of-change-cgc The Center for the Governance of Change (CGC) is an applied-research, educational institution based at IE University that studies the political, economic, and societal implications of the current technological revolution and advances solutions to overcome its unwanted effects. The CGC produces pioneering impact-oriented research that cuts across disciplines and methodologies to unveil the complexity of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, and Robotics, and explore its potential threats and contributions to society. Moreover, the CGC also runs a number of executive programs on emerging tech for public institutions and companies interested in expanding their understanding of disruptive trends, and a series of outreach activities aimed at improving the general public’s awareness and agency over the coming changes. All this for one purpose: to help building a more prosperous and sustainable society for all.]]> ]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:12:01 +0100 <![CDATA[The Institute for Human Sciences]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/organisations/the-institute-for-human-sciences ]]> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:34:48 +0100 <![CDATA[Anger and its Interaction with Love and Hate]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/anger-and-its-interaction-with-love-and-hate Why has anger become such a dominant theme in today's world that people have even spoken of an "age of anger"? Is it conceivable that this emotionalization could also have a positive effect, under what conditions? In terms of the history of philosophy and religion, two approaches to this topic can be identified. On the one hand, a complete rejection, in Buddhism, for example, and in Stoicism; on the other hand, the approving qualification of anger as a virtue, under special circumstances, for example, in Aristoteles and Thomas von Aquin. Absolute negation has a detrimental effect when certain sensations are so excluded, including positively experienced sensations. Essentially, two causes can be identified for the increasing affliction by anger in our society. On the one hand, the evaporation of traditional as well as new values; on the other hand, the all too arbitrary expression of anger in the social media. In addition, it has the effect that more and more anger-filled protest actions, of youth, of women, show a challenge to traditional specifications. Meanwhile, anger as a popular and triumphant affect misses the mark. A binding, moral force can only emerge when anger gains coherence, in its sustainability, intensity, and reach. Otherwise, anger becomes destructive rage.


Aaron Ben-Ze'ev is a professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa (Israel), of which he was president for many years; research in social philosophy, perception theory, and everyday psychology; numerous publications on the historical and contemporary politics of emotions, including "Love Online: Emotions on the Internet" (2004), "The Logic of Emotions. A Critique of Emotional Intelligence" (2009), "The Arc of Love. How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time" (2019).

Introduction and talk: Ethel Matala de Mazza

]]> ]]> Sat, 01 May 2021 10:57:36 +0200 <![CDATA[Anger and its Interaction with Love and Hate]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/anger-and-its-interaction-with-love-and-hate-2 Why has anger become such a dominant theme in today's world that people have even spoken of an "age of anger"? Is it conceivable that this emotionalization could also have a positive effect, under what conditions? In terms of the history of philosophy and religion, two approaches to this topic can be identified. On the one hand, a complete rejection, in Buddhism, for example, and in Stoicism; on the other hand, the approving qualification of anger as a virtue, under special circumstances, for example, in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Absolute negation has a detrimental effect when certain sensations are so excluded, including positively experienced sensations. Essentially, two causes can be identified for the increasing affliction by anger in our society. On the one hand, the evaporation of traditional as well as new values; on the other hand, the all too arbitrary expression of anger in the social media. In addition, it has the effect that more and more anger-filled protest actions, of youth, of women, show a challenge to traditional specifications. Meanwhile, anger as a popular and triumphant affect misses the mark. A binding, moral force can only emerge when anger gains coherence, in its sustainability, intensity, and reach. Otherwise, anger becomes destructive rage.


Aaron Ben-Ze'ev is professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa (Israel), of which he was president for many years; research in social philosophy, perception theory, and everyday psychology; numerous publications on the historical and contemporary politics of emotions, including "Love Online: Emotions on the Internet" (2004), "The Logic of Emotions. A Critique of Emotional Intelligence" (2009), "The Arc of Love. How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time" (2019).

]]> Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:44:18 +0200 <![CDATA[The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/the-normative-order-of-the-internet-a-theory-of-rule-and-regulation-online There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order integrates norms at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical standards). Matthias C. Kettemann assesses their internal coherence, their consonance with other order norms and their consistency with the order's finality. The normative order of the internet is based on and produces a liquefied system characterized by self-learning normativity. In light of the importance of the socio-communicative online space, this is a book for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary development of the internet. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard), Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Insitut Hamburg, Forschungsverbund "Normative Ordnungen" der Goethe-Universität Um Anmeldung wird gebeten. Die Veranstaltung wird virtuell über GoToMeeting stattfinden.


Die Einwahldaten werden nach der Anmeldung übermittelt. Oxford University Press 2020 Veranstalter: Forschungsverbund "Normative Ordnungen" der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Sustainable Computing Lab, WU Wien, Humboldt-Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) und Oxford University Press

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:43:34 +0100 <![CDATA[The Nature and Future of Information Confrontation]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/the-nature-and-future-of-information-confrontation Conversations with the Future, a new videoseries on a range of issues related to technology, disruption and change that will bring together academics, experts and practitioners. In this first episode, “The Nature and Future of Information Confrontation“, Peter Pomerantsev, Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Nina Jankowisz, Disinformation Fellow at the Wilson Center, address the issue of information conflict and disinformation in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests. The talk is moderated by Oscar Jonsson, Academic Director of the CGC.]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:47:11 +0100 <![CDATA[The Remains of the Real]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/the-remains-of-the-real There was a moment in the 1990’s, in the era of high postmodernism, when it seemed that social reality has had no stable foundations and as such it can be freely and totally transformed by interventions in the registers of symbols and images. Various social, political and economic developments of the last two decades – from 9/11 terrorist attacks to the 2008 financial crisis to the recent populist uprisings on both sides of the Atlantic – blatantly contradict that over-optimist conviction. A lot has been said about what the populists get wrong, what is, however, more puzzling is that they seem to get some things right – as if people had a sort of political blindsight or – to put it in more philosophical terms – as if there was some kind of basic social and political unconcealedness/disclosure (alētheia) where the truth shines through the curtain of lies.


Jan Sowa is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. From January to June 2020 he is a Visiting Fellow at the IWM.

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:19:34 +0100 <![CDATA[Europe After the Pandemic]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/europe-after-the-pandemic The future of Europe after the crisis caused by COVID-19 according to Ivan Krastev, political scientist, IWM Permanent Fellow and president of the Centre of Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and Jordi Vaquer, political analyst of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. Conversation in Catalan and English, with subtitles in Catalan and Spanish.

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:18:22 +0100 <![CDATA[The Dangers of Digital Democracy]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/the-dangers-of-digital-democracy ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:16:11 +0100 <![CDATA[Crypto-Politics. Encryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/crypto-politics-encryption-and-democratic-practices-in-the-digital-era The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA, during the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks, which revolved around the value of privacy and the legitimacy of surveillance practices. Using a discourse analysis of mass media and specialist debates, it shows how these are closely interlinked with technological controversies and how, as a result, contestation emerges not within one public sphere but within multiple expert circles. The book develops the notion of ‘publicness’ in order to grasp the political significance of these controversies, thereby making an innovative contribution to Critical Security Studies by introducing digital encryption as an important site for understanding the broader debates on cyber security and surveillance.


Mit: Dr. Linda Monsees (Autorin, Postdoktorandin am Exzellenzcluster "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen"), Prof. Peter Burgess (Professor and Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) und Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Principal Investigator des Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen", Professorin für Internationale Beziehungen und Theorien globaler Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität)

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:02:11 +0100 <![CDATA[Rethinking Responsibility]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/rethinking-responsibility Das Prinzip Verantwortung forty years ago, the principle of responsibility has become a key concept in moral and political debates. Yet the unconditional responsibility for the possibility of the existence of future generations – not only of humans, but also of other living beings – is invariably accompanied by the "heuristics of fear," which presupposes imagining the worst-case scenario and a pronouncedly bleak future. The dystopian principle of responsibility was introduced as a response to Bloch's Das Prinzip Hoffnung, which envisions the possibility of a utopian future for humanity. The proposed project will discuss these two principles and will argue that they are not mutually exclusive, so that, while still preserving the imperative of responsibility, one can maintain a utopian ideal as a regulative idea for moral and political action. Dmitri Nikulin ist Professor für Philosophie an der New School for Social Research in New York. Von August ‒ Oktober 2019 ist er auf Einladung von Professor Rainer Forst und dem Exzellenzcluster »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen« Fellow am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität. Um Anmeldung bis zum 14. Oktober 2019 wird gebeten]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:00:02 +0100 <![CDATA[Social Networks or Social Nightmares?]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/social-networks-or-social-nightmares A decade ago social networks, big data and artificial intelligence were welcomed for their promise of progress and democratization of access. Today, the focus has shifted to their dark side as a threat to our privacy, a danger to democracy and as a new form of surveillance. Three of the world’s leading activists of the electronic age gather to discuss our digital future. Roger McNamee, an early advisor to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of his fiercest critics – his much-acclaimed book Zucked is a far-reaching indictment of the way the social media giant is dealing with data security. Evgeny Morozov gained prominence with his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, a prophetically early warning about the dangers of the digital age. Max Schrems, Austrian data protection lawyer, became a world-wide celebrity for launching the first successful legal challenge against Facebook for privacy violations. The conversation is led by IWM Rector Shalini Randeria.

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:15:22 +0100 <![CDATA[American Diplomacy in a Disordered World]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/american-diplomacy-in-a-disordered-world In the fifth event of the series “Geopolitical Talks” IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev will talk with Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about America’s changing role in the world and the purpose of American diplomacy.


William J. Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal (Random House, 2019). He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a thirty-three-year diplomatic career. He holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service, career ambassador, and is only the second serving career diplomat in history to become deputy secretary of state. Prior to his tenure as deputy secretary, Ambassador Burns served from 2008 to 2011 as undersecretary for political affairs. He was ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008, assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs from 2001 to 2005, and ambassador to Jordan from 1998 to 2001. Ambassador Burns earned a bachelor’s degree in history from La Salle University and master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He and his wife, Lisa, have two daughters.

]]> ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:13:08 +0100 <![CDATA[Armin Nassehi: What problem does digitalisation solve?]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/armin-nassehi-what-problem-does-digitalisation-solve Digital technology has revolutionised the world in just a few years: our relationships, our work and even the results of elections – everything seems to follow completely different rules. For sociologist Armin Nassehi, a certain technology is only successful if it solves a fundamental problem. So if digitalisation succeeds in unfolding its potential for change, the question is: What problem does digitisation solve? Among other things, the answer will point out that modern society can be called “digital” in a peculiar way even before the advance of computer technology.

Armin Nassehi is Professor of Sociology at LMU Munich; he researches and teaches in the areas of sociology of culture, political sociology, sociology of religion as well as sociology of knowledge and science. His sociology is mainly based on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. Nassehi’s next book “Muster. Theorie der digitalen Gesellschaft” will be published at the end of August.

]]> ]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:23:02 +0100 <![CDATA[Cyberlaw and Human Rights]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/cyberlaw-and-human-rights After two decades of little direct legislation of the internet, national laws and related court decisions meant to govern cyberspace are rapidly proliferating worldwide. They are becoming building blocks in new legal frameworks that will shape the evolution of Internet governance and policymaking for years to come.

In the Global South and particularly under repressive regimes, these frameworks can be imposed with little regard for human rights obligations and without a full understanding of the technologies and processes they regulate or their implications for the preservation of the core values of the internet: interoperability, universality, and free expression and the free flow of information.

This panel brings together practitioners from five international organizations monitoring the development of legislation and case law related to cyberspace to discuss the implications for the future of human rights online.


Panelists

Moderator

Robert Faris is the research director at the Berkman Klein Center where he contributes and provides oversight to research at the center. His research includes the study of digital communication mechanisms by civil society organizations and social movements, and the emergence and impact of digitally-mediated collective action, as well as the influence of networked digital technologies on democracy and governance and the evolving role of new media in political change.


Dr. Hawley Johnson is the Project Manager for Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, an initiative to advance the understanding of international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an interconnected global community. Hawley has over twelve years of experience in international media development both academically and professionally, with a focus on Eastern Europe. She recently worked with the award winning Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to launch the Investigative Dashboard (ID), a joint effort with Google Ideas offering specialized databases and research tools for journalists in emerging democracies.


Robert Muthuri is currently a Research Fellow – ICT at the Centre for IP and IT (CIPIT) at the Strathmore School of Law. He is a Legal Knowledge Engineer working at the intersection of legal theory and AI. Robert is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya who, with the conviction that technology had a lot more to offer the legal domain, further pursued a career in legal informatics.


Juan Carlos Lara is a Chilean lawyer, specializing in law and technology, currently working as the manager of the Public Policy and Research team at Derechos Digitales, a non governmental organisation based in Santiago de Chile that promotes and defends digital rights in Latin America. He has worked as a consultant in intellectual property for public and private entities, has been a research assistant at the Centre of Studies in Cyber Law at the University of Chile, and is currently an LL.M. candidate at UC Berkeley. In Derechos Digitales, he leads research and policy analysis on technology and data privacy, equality, freedom of expression, and access to knowledge and human rights in online platforms.


Gayatri Khandhadai is a lawyer with a background in international law and human rights, international and regional human rights mechanisms, research, and advocacy. She previously worked with national and regional human rights groups, focusing on freedom of expression. She coordinated the IMPACT — India, Malaysia, Pakistan Advocacy for Change through Technology — project with the Association for Progressive Communications. Her current focus is on digital rights in Asia with specific emphasis on freedoms of expression, assembly, and association on the Internet.


Jessica Dheere is co-founder of the Beirut–based digital rights research, training, and advocacy organization SMEX (smex.org) and a 2018-19 research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She is also incubating director of the recently launched CYRILLA Collaborative (cyrilla.org), a global initiative that maps and analyzes the emergence and evolution of legal frameworks in digitally networked environments through open research, data models, and databases.

]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:07:58 +0100 <![CDATA[Hintergrundgespräch: Predictive Policing in Deutschland]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/hintergrundgesprach-predictive-policing-in-deutschland ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:33:34 +0100 <![CDATA[Ethics and algorithmic processes for decision making and decision support]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/technicalarticles/ethics-and-algorithmic-processes-for-decision-making-and-decision-support Far from being a thing of the future, automated decision-making informed by algorithms (ADM) is already a widespread phenomenon in our contemporary society. It is used in contexts as varied as advanced driver assistance systems, where cars are caused to brake in case of danger, and software packages that decide whether or not a person is eligible for a bank loan. Actions of government are also increasingly supported by ADM systems, whether in “predictive policing” or deciding whether a person should be released from prison. What is more, ADM is only just in its infancy: in just a few years’ time, every single person will be affected daily in one way or another by decisions reached using algorithmic processes. Automation is set to play a part in every area of politics and law.

Current ethical debates about the consequences of automation generally focus on the rights of individuals. However, algorithmic processes – the major component of automated systems – exhibit a collective dimension first and foremost. This can only be addressed partially at the level of individual rights. For this reason, existing ethical and legal criteria are not suitable (or, at least, are inadequate) when considering algorithms generally. They lead to a conceptual blurring with regard to issues such as privacy and discrimination, when information that could potentially be misused to discriminate illegitimately is declared private. Our aim in the present article is, first, to bring a measure of clarity to the debate so that such blurring can be avoided in the future. In addition to this, we discuss ethical criteria for technology which, in the form of universal abstract principles, are to be applied to all societal contexts.

]]> ]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:54:14 +0100 <![CDATA[BigBrotherAwards 2018]]> https://beyond-eve.com/en/events/bigbrotherawards-2018 ]]> Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:33:33 +0100