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Emerging technologies are fundamentally reshaping the institution of citizenship and the role of cities. This panel will feature research that seeks to understand the challenges that emerging technologies pose to the institution of citizenship. It will discuss the impacts of emerging technologies on citizens, on the role of institutions, corporations, and states in shaping civic life through the development and deployment of emerging technologies and bring citizens and institutions together in a call for exploring new forms of ‘digital constitutionalism’ taking place in cities.
This panel is part of the Migration, Displacement and Citizenship in an Urban World virtual conference.
Presented by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, an initiative of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
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Dr Hanakata is the Co-Founder of HANAKATA, a research and planning practice based in Singapore.
Prior to joining NUS, Dr Hanakata worked as Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator of the Grand Project: Towards Adaptable and Liveable Urban Megaprojects, Thinking Urban Futures, and Waterfront Tanjong Pagar Multidisciplinary Research Project at the Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability. She obtained her doctorate from ETH Zurich in 2016.
Dr Hanakata’s research interests are in adaptive and strategic planning for high-density urban energy landscapes, planetary urbanization processes, platform urbanization, and in fostering the role of planning in a sustainable urban development practice: how visions, schemes, mechanisms of implementation and management can respond to specific situations, while following a sustainable urban development paradigm particularly in light of climate change and in an inevitable global context.
Federico Tomasello is a senior research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, a visiting fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, a guest researcher at the WZB-Berlin Social Science Centre, International Citizenship Law research unit, and a research affiliate at the Central European University, Democracy Institute. He holds a PhD in History of Political Thought and the Italian qualification of Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and of History of Political Doctrines and Institutions. Since 2019 he has been a member of the Global Citizenship Governance programme, which is funded by the European Research Council and jointly hosted by the EUI (Florence) and the WZB (Berlin). Since 2020 he has been running a ‘Supporting Principal Investigators’ grant programme at the University of Venice. He has held research, teaching, and visiting positions at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Padua, and Venice, the Scuola Normale Superiore, European University Institute, WZB-Berlin Social Science Centre, Central European University, Université Paris-1, and Université de Neuchatel. He has presented conference papers in the United States, Greece, France, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Italy.
His track record of publications includes four research monographs, five peer-reviewed articles, three edited volumes, two journal special issues, and more than twenty book chapters and articles. In 2020 he published the book L’ordine della città . Violenza e spazio urbano (Manifestolibri) and edited the volume Violenza e politica. Dopo il Novecento (Il Mulino). In 2021 he is editing a special issue of the journal Citizenship Studies, has submitted the article ‘From Industrial to Digital Citizenship’ to the journal Theory and Society, and is editing a collected volume on the history of citizenship resulting from a series of three international conferences at the European University Institute.
Filippo Bignami holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Paris VIII St. Denis and Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Department of Economics, Health and Social Sciences (SUPSI-DEASS), and coordinator of LUCI (Labour, Urbanscape, and CItizenship) research area. He has been an external scientific consultant for UN-ILO International Labour Organization, project visiting professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, State University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and senior researcher at Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training. His main scientific interest and expertise is in citizenship social and political theories and applied studies on citizenship policies and education.
 Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data; Cardiff University; University of Oxford
Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA is a Senior Researcher on digital, urban, and political transformations from the social innovation perspective working at (i) Cardiff University, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), Civic Society ESRC programme; (ii) University of Oxford, Future of Cities and Urban Transformations ESRC programme funded by H2020, Marie Curie, Ikerbasque, and RSA Fellowships; and (iii) giving advice to the UN-Habitat flagship programme on People-Centered Smart Cities. His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions. He is the author of the monograph Smart City Citizenship recently published by Elsevier. He was Senior Scientist at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, in Digital Transformations and AI. In addition, for over 20 years he has been working at Strathclyde, Aston, Vrije, Malmö, Iceland, Nevada, Helsinki, and Mondragon universities. He was the Director of the Basque Government (public sector) and Mondragon Co-operative Corporation (private sector).
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Liav Orgad is the Director of the ‘Global Citizenship Law’ Project at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI); the Head of the Research Group ‘International Citizenship Law’ at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and a Recurrent Visiting Professor at Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
In recent years, Orgad was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, a Marie Curie Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, a Fulbright Scholar at NYU Law School, and a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is a Member of the Global Young Academy, where he heads the Working Group ‘Global Migration and Human Rights,’ the author of The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Oxford University Press, 2016), and the recipient of the Eric Stein Prize for ‘best scholarly article’ by the American Society for Comparative Law (2011).
His research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant on ‘Global Citizenship Law’ advances the establishment of a new subfield in international law—International Citizenship Law (ICIL)—which would regulate nationality law; it explores the idea of ‘blockchain membership’ and matching algorithm for citizenship, and invites us to challenge our understanding of citizenship in the age of global economy, technology, and mobility.
More than ever, the city is the locus of human mobility. The majority of the world’s migrants and forcibly displaced live in urban areas. Migration continues to be a fundamental process to the development and growth of cities. The role of cities in shaping mobility and that of migrants in shaping cities have been increasingly recognized in policy, academic, and media circles. Understanding this relationship and its implications for political and policy action requires us to gather new evidence from cities the world over and to possibly challenge past assumptions and theoretical concepts.
Key questions that emerge in this context are: What is the role of urban governance in addressing the challenges and in harnessing the opportunities that come with migration? How do cities negotiate contested views surrounding the topic of migration? How do new forms of mobility and technological advances affect membership and belonging? How do shifting narratives on migration and displacement shape political and media discourse? Â
This virtual conference is organized by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, a consortium that aims to advance research on cities, mobility, and citizenship. The event will bring together leading scholars from across disciplines with the purpose of sharing recent research on the following themes: (a) Cities, Human Mobility and Digital Citizenship, (b) Cities and Environmental Mobility, (c) Mobility and Urban Governance, (d) Cities, Migration and Contentious Politics, (e) Refugees and Cities, (f) New Narratives on Cities and Mobility.
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