[ietf-privacy] Call for Participation: 5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023)

[Thorsten Strufe <[e-mail]>]

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Call for Participation

5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023)

June 25-30, 2023, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

Theme:
"Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things"

https://isp.cs.ru.nl

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We invite doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection,
security, surveillance and ethics to participate in the fifth
Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023) to be held from
September June 25-30, 2023 in Berg en Dal (The Netherlands), close to
Radboud
University (Nijmegen).

# Teachers

We are extremely happy to offer the following team of teachers for this
year's summerschool.

- Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland)
- Didem Ozkul (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
- Michael Veale (UCL, London, UK)
- Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- Ana-Maria Cretu (Imperial College, London, UK)
- Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano,
Switzerland)
- James Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK)

(with two more teachers to be announced soon)

# Background of the summerschool

The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy (ISP) provides an
intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy
from a technical, legal and social perspective. The goal of the
summerschool is to provide students with a solid background in the
theory of privacy construction, modelling and protection from these
three different perspectives. It also aims to help them to establish a
first international network with peers and senior academics across these
disparate disciplines.

Participants of the summerschool are awarded two ECTS (study credits)
and receive a certificate of attendance issued by the Radboud University
attesting this.

For more information [click here](https://isp.cs.ru.nl)

# Theme: Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things

As a concept, the Internet of Things is perhaps already an anachronism.
Already back in 1991 Marc Weiser, in his famous paper on the Computer
for the 21st Century wrote: The most profound technologies are those
that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life
until they are indistinguishable from it. 'Ubiquitous computing'
(ubicomp) or the disappearance of the infrastructure in the background,
as predicted by Mark Weiser (1991), through the ubiquitous presence of
sensing IoT devices (Dourish & Bell, 2011), is not fulfilled. And yet
here we are, well into the 21st century, and the internet of things is
getting real: cars are networked supercomputers on wheels, we wear smart
watches or fitness trackers, even our fridges are smart and connected,
and the virtual and real world are starting to converge as the
technology is indeed disappearing and mediating our lives. These
technological changes in ubicomp and autonomous systems also fit in with
recent scholarly thinking in social sciences. According to Deuze (2012)
the key challenge of media and communication studies in the ‘media life’
of the 21st century is, or will be, the disappearance of media, where
people increasingly are living ‘in’ media instead of living ‘with’
media. However one of the first ways to conceptualise the merger between
media technology and the everyday life can be found with Roger
Silverstone, Eric Hirsch and David Morley (1990) proposing the notion of
‘domestication’. Through that process the domesticated digital media
technologies disappear into the daily practices. They are not perceived
as (savage) technologies anymore but offer ‘ontological security’ as
natural extensions of personal interactions and social communication
(Giddens, 1990). This gradual shift of people becoming one with their
digital environment has later also been highlighted by other scholars in
social sciences, through notions like ‘media life’ (Deuze, 2012),
‘mediatization’ (Couldry and Hepp, 2017), the ‘digital condition’
(Stalder, 2018), and ‘liquid surveillance’ (Bauman and Lyon, 2013). A
key socio-technical question is then how trust in and dependence of
these ubiquitous platforms for mediated communication is configured and
the kind of consequences this has for user (dis)empowerment and public
values (Pierson, 2021). This steady technology push, perhaps partly made
invisible by new hypes like the metaverse, does raise fundamental
privacy and autonomy issuers, that will be explored in the summerschool.

# Format

The summer school is interdisciplinary, involving the following
disciplines: computer science, law and social sciences / media and
communication studies. The school lasts one week, with nine scheduled
lectures (five morning
lectures and four afternoon lectures) of two hours each. These nine
lectures are equally distributed over the three disciplines, with
top-notch lectures from each of the disciplines. The lectures will lay
the grounds for an interdisciplinary conversation among students and
lecturers coming from a variety of backgrounds.

The remaining time is used for hands on working group sessions to study
practical cases. The cases will be offered by businesses, governments,
government related institutions (like DPAs) and civil society/NGOs.
Groups of six students, ideally two from each discipline, are formed to
tackle the cases and report back on their results in a plenary session.

The school is held in a location that encourages dialogue and social
interactions between both the staff and the students, both during
lectures and in the evening. Staff (i.e. lecturers) are encouraged to
stay at the summer school for the whole length of the school. The summer
school is foremost aimed at PhD students from computer science, law and
social sciences.

# Practical Information

The summer school is held at [Hotel Erica](http://www.hotelerica.nl),
Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. The hotel is well equipped and ideally
situated in the woods close to Nijmegen, and easily reached by bus from
Nijmegen train station. Nijmegen has direct train connections with
Schiphol, the Dutch national airport.

## Registration

Visit the following web page to register:

https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/registration.php

We offer the following options.

- Single room: € 1229 (late: € 1429)
- Shared room: € 899 (late: € 1099)
- No room (lunch/diner/school only): € 635 (late: € 835)
(for local people who do not need accommodation)

Payment by credit card accepted. Early registration fees expire on May
1. Admission after May 1 subject to availability. Registration may close
earlier if the maximum number of participants (40) is reached.

## Stipends

A limited number of stipends is available. To see whether you would
qualify for a stipend, and to start the application process, see

https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/stipends.php

## Contact

For further information please consult our website

https://isp.cs.ru.nl

or contact us by email at [e-mail]

## Organiser

- Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University /PI.lab)

## Steering Committee

- Seda Gürses (TU Delft / KU Leuven)
- Eleni Kosta (TILT-Tilburg University / Privacy & Identity Lab)
- Jo Pierson (Hasselt University / Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / TU Dresden)

## Supported by

- PI.lab - The Privacy & Identity Lab.
- iHub / Radboud University





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