Thursday, 28 September

8:45-9:45
Registration

9:15-9:45
Opening

Paweł Laidler
Dean of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University

Łukasz Kamieński
Chair of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University

9:45-11:15
Keynote session: David Lyon (Queen’s University)

Surveillance and the Eye of God: The Ironies of History and the Quest for Responsible Surveillance in the 21st Century

Chair: Paweł Laidler (Jagiellonian University)

11:30-1:50
Panel Session 01

POST-DEMOCRATIC GLOBAL GOVERNANCE?

Chair and discussant: Dominika Dziwisz (Jagiellonian University)

• Martin Libicki (U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis): Cyberwar and Technocracy
• Madison Lee (Balsillie School of International Affairs): From Deregulation to Decentralization: The Prospect of Global Governance in Web3
• Alex Thomson (ukcolumn.org): Do “They” Really Run Governing Organizations?
• Iurie Roșca (Chisinau Forum): The Great Reset and the End of Classical Geopolitics: How Many Power Centers are There Worldwide?

2:30-4:50
Panel Session 02

SPATIAL AND CONCEPTUAL LIMITS OF DIGITAL TECHNOCRACY

Chair and discussant: Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska (Jagiellonian University)

• Raul Carneiro, Patrícia Silva, Gonçalo Paiva Dias (University of Aveiro / GOVCOPP): Primary Goods, Access, and Equality: Rawls and the Information Age
• Błażej Sajduk (Jagiellonian University): The Digital Spheres of Influence Between Technocracies
• Alesia Rudnik (Karlstad University): Socio-technical Protests in Digital Town Squares
• Garry Robson (Jagiellonian University): Programming the ‘Global Citizen’: Cybernetic Childhood, ESG and the New (Maoist) Cultural Revolution

5:10-7:30
Panel Session 03

CHINA IN THE VANGUARD OF TECHNOCRACY

Chair and discussant: John Klyczek (Western Connecticut State University)

• Emilie Swajnoch (University of Silesia in Katowice): Does the Chinese Social Credit System Build Digital Authoritarianism? The SCS through the Securitization Prism
• Jie Shen (University of Amsterdam): The Cybernetic and Technocratic Legacy of Today's Smart Infrastructure in China: How China is developing a New Form of Wisdom Governance
• Luka Nikolic (Charles University Prague): Technological Disruption of State Apparatuses: A Case for Dual-Use Technologies in China
• Tanguy Struye De Swielande (Université catholique de Louvain): If the Dragon Eats the Black Bear, Will we Care? Cognitive Warfare at the Heart of China’s Strategy Towards Taiwan

Friday, 29 September

9:30-11:00

Keynote Session: Matthew B. Crawford (University of Virginia)

The Fate of the Citizen under Expert Administration

Chair: Lukasz Kamienski (Jagiellonian University)

11:15-1:00

Panel Session 04

DYSTOPIAS

Chair and discussant: Madison Lee (Balsillie School of International Affairs)

• Michael Schaefer (Washington University in St. Louis): Fear of A ‘Scientific-Technological Elite:’ Contemporary Concerns in Light of Eisenhower’s Initial Conception – A Useful Heuristic or Obfuscating Buzzword?
• Patrick Vaughan (Jagiellonian University): Kurt Vonnegut and the Novel “Player Piano”: Luddite Pessimism or Portent for the Future?
• John Klyczek (Western Connecticut State University): Brave New World Order: Aldous Huxley's Scientific Aristocracy and the Global Technocrats of the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2:00-4:00

Roundtable

Moderated by Alex Thomson

• David Lyon
• Matthew B. Crawford
• Martin Libicki

Conference closing
Garry Robson