17 – and 19 November 2026 · All times UTC
Session A: Tuesday 17 November · 12:00–16:00 UTC
Join session A here: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/67110917279
| 12:00– 12:15 | Welcome & Opening |
| 12:15– 13:45 | Panel 1: Algorithmic Politics, Digital Sovereignty, and Competing Governance Models Chair/Discussant: Riccardo Nanni Algorithmic Electability: Generative AI, Gendered Political Bias, and LGBTQ Candidates Zachary Baum Digital sovereignty as situated co-creation: upcycling digital commons for collective autonomy Ksenia Ermoshina, Francesca Musiani Contested Digital Empires: Public Support for Competing Models of AI Governance Dennis Redeker, Chiara Spiniello, Fee Cohausz, Ingmar Sturm, Imane El Qochairi, Adio Dinika |
| 13:45– 14:15 | Break |
| 14:15– 15:45 | Panel 2: Platform Governance and Content Moderation: Regulation, Compliance, and Accountability Chair/Discussant: Maysa Amer Compliance in Form, Evasion in Practice: Platform Content Moderation Strategy under China’s Primary Responsibility Model Kaiman Zhan, Juan Li The Invisible Governance Hand: Rethinking the Intermediary Paradigm in the Age of Foundation Models Argyro Karanasiou Platform Governance Vacuums and the Securitization of Anti-Ukrainian Disinformation in Poland: Case Study of Telegram Artur Koldomasov |
| 15:45– 16:00 | Closing Remarks |
Session B: Thursday 19 November · 07:00–11:00 UTC
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| 07:00– 07:15 | Welcome & Opening |
| 07:15– 08:45 | Panel 3: IGF and Global Internet Governance Chair/Discussant: Jamal Shahin A Quantum Governance Forum? Twenty Years of the IGF and the Timing of Institutional Design Matthias C. Kettemann, Raphael Wibmer Conceptualizing Digital Sovereignty in the Internet Governance Forum: A Computational Content Analysis, 2019-2025 Grace X. Yang, Mauro Santaniello Non-State Actors as Strategic Policy Brokers in Digital Governance Subsystems: The IANA Transition and the Global-Domestic Linkage Strategy of Transnational IT Corporations Shi Young Chang |
| 08:45– 09:15 | Break |
| 09:15– 10:45 | Panel 4: Authoritarianism, Conflict and Digital Sovereignty Chair/Discussant: Berna Akcali Gur A Weapon of the Weak: A Political-Economy of Internet Fragmentation Riccardo Nanni, Louis Pétiniaud Digital Sovereignty and Internet Governance during Armed Conflict: Governing Cross-Border Electronic Evidence through Public-Private Cooperation. Mykhaylo Gutsalyuk The Political Economy of Digital Authoritarianism in Pakistan Fahad Nabeel |
| 10:45– 11:00 | Closing Remarks |