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How the Enlightenment Ends

Henry Kissinger in the Atlantic: “…Heretofore, the technological advance that most altered the course of modern history was the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, which allowed the search for empirical knowledge to supplant liturgical doctrine, and the Age of Reason to gradually supersede the Age of Religion. Individual insight and scientific knowledge replaced faith as the principal criterion of human consciousness.

‘This land is your land’: Reclaiming public land for communities in Brooklyn

596 Acres: Here’s the problem: Located primarily in areas of the city where low-income communities of color live today, more than a thousand vacant public lots languish behind fences, collecting garbage. One such lot was in Paula Segal’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. In 2010, she began talking to her neighbors about this lot. She gathered as much information as she could find about it and called a community meeting.

Cátedra Jean Monnet abre chamada de artigos para a 3ª edição do Global Law in Context

Trabalhos podem ser enviados ate até o dia 29/06 A Cátedra Jean Monnet da FGV Direito Rio abre chamada de artigos para a 3ª edição do Global Law in Context. Os trabalhos selecionados farão parte do boletim on-line sobre o Direito Internacional, Europeu e Política Internacional no site da organizadora, construindo um veículo de referência multidisciplinar para aqueles que desejarem obter uma atualização qualificada sobre os temas em questão.

Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder

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Dustin’s Internet Community Roadtrip: In the Bay Area, What Redwoods Can Teach Us About the Internet

Dustin Phillips, Co-Executive Director of ICANNWiki, is traveling across the United States in his red Toyota Corolla, making connections with the people who are making their communities – and the Internet – a better place. While making his way to the Bay Area from Portland, Oregon, he took a slight detour.

Kicken für den guten Zweck: Scheckübergabe Schlossmann-Cup zugunsten der UKD-Kinderklinik

Gespendet werden die Erlöse zugunsten der Kinderklinik des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf (UKD). Am Freitag, 18. Mai 2018 fand die offizielle Scheckübergabe statt: Unter Beisein von Fortuna-Legende Wilfreid Woyke, Fortuna Torwart in den Jahren 1966-79 mit 274 Pflichtspielen im Tor.In der Solidaritätsgemeinschaft Düsseldorfer Zahnärzte sind über 100 Düsseldorfer Praxen organisiert. Bereits seit einigen Jahren sammelt der Verein Spenden für verschiedene karitative Zwecke: In diesem Jahr spielt man erstmals gegen die Fortuna/F95-Traditionsmannschaft um den „Schlossmann-Cup“.

Digital Self-Defense for Palestinian Schoolgirls

Cyber-bullying is a growing phenomenon amongst preteens. Studies have established that nearly 43% of children are victims of cyberbullying and girls are twice as likely to be targeted. Students who experienced cyber attacks suffer drops in school grades and have more suicidal thoughts than those who had never dealt with such forms of peer aggression. A link between cyber harassment victimization and noncompletion of school has been demonstrated resulting in increased risk of poor education and substance abuse in adulthood.

Dr. Bodó committee member of first Dutch national blockchain research agenda

Prof. Helberger leader of Citizenship & Democracy line in research programme Digital Society

Workshop: Towards inclusive and sustainable protection of traditional cultural expressions

International workshop (invitation only): How independent are you really? Updating the INDIREG methodology for future assessments of media regulators’ independence

Prof. Dr. William Martin erhält Preis der Klüh Stiftung 2018

Der Vorfahre, dessen Eigenschaften Prof. Martin mit vergleichenden genetischen Untersuchungen entschlüsselte, trägt den Namen LUCA. Dies steht für „Last universal common ancestor“. Aus ihm haben sich alle heute existierenden Bakterien, Pilze, Pflanzen, Tiere und auch der Mensch entwickelt.

Patterns of Commoning: The Fountain Of Fish: Ontological Collisions At Sea

“If something goes wrong, its not only our beaches that get ruined. It’s everyone’s.”
[Tweedie Waititi, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Sunday Star Times]

Fragmented Evolution in Post-Polanyan Times

I will be attending the European Artistic Research Network Conference in Dublin on October 18th-19th this year. What follows is my abstract for the conference. You can find more details for the event itself in the second part of this post.

Rootconf 2018

Rootconf is an annual conference on DevOps and IT Infrastructure and is organised by HasGeek. On May 11 and 12, 2018, Gurshabad Grover, Natallia Khaniejo and Aayush Rathi attended Rootconf 2018.
Rootconf 2018 had two major themes - an infrastructure and systems security track and an infrastructure architecture track. All talks at the event were streamed live and videos of the same can be found at HasGeek's YouTube channel here.

Postcolonial Digital Connections International Conference

Anubha Sinha was a speaker at this conference organized by Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, UCL and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung on May 16 and 17, 2018 at Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ZIRS) in Halle, Germany. Anubha Sinha spoke on Property, Control and Copyright.

20 Jahre Kreis der Freunde des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Rund 300 Mitglieder zählt der Kreis der Freunde aktuell, wie seine Vorsitzende, Dr. Sandra Abend, in ihrer Begrüßung mit Stolz berichtete. Fast die Hälfte von ihnen hatte es sich nicht nehmen lassen, den runden Geburtstag persönlich mitzufeiern. Eine aktive Beteiligung, über die sich nicht jeder Verein freuen kann. Dass der Kreis der Freunde prosperiert, zeigt auch die Entwicklung der Mitgliederzahlen. Allein in den letzten vier Jahren hat sich ihre Zahl mit rund 100 Neueintritten um ein Drittel erhöht.

Open positions @ MC&I

Open positions @ MC&I

Indian Cricket Board Exposes Personal Data of Thousands of Players

The IT security researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered a trove of personal and sensitive data belonging to around 15,000 to 20,000 Indian applicants participating in cricket seasons 2015-2018.
The blog post was published on Hack Read on May 15, 2018.

Editan número perdido de la revista de crítica de cine Primer Plano

Más de cuatro décadas debieron pasar para que uno de los referentes de la reflexión sobre el cine en nuestro país volviera a ser publicado. El sexto número de esta revista debió salir en la primavera de 1973, pero a causa del golpe de Estado pasó 45 años guardado en cajas, para ser restaurado en un trabajo de investigación hecho por académicos de la U. de Chile.