08:30 – 09:00 Registration – level -1.
09:00 – 09:20 Opening Ceremony – Room OLYMPIA
09:20 – 10:00 Keynote Speech – Room OLYMPIA
The Keynote Speech will be delivered by Dr Triantafyllos Karatrantos, Senior Research Fellow, Radicalisation, Terrorism, Policing Models, Security and Foreign Policy, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
10:00 – 11:30 Expert Panel – Room OLYMPIA
State Security in Cyberspace
Moderator: Prof. Anthony Rolando Medina Rivas Plata, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos & Universidad Católica de Santa María
Speakers:
- Mr. Thomas Bakratsas, DE-CONSPIRATOR project| White Research SRL
- Mr. Nikolaos Sotiriou, DE-CONSPIRATOR project| White Research SRL
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 Panels
Session 1.1.1 – Room HEPHAESTUS
Chair: Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui, American University of Sharjah
- The Phenomenon of Neo-tribalism in Social Media: Construction of Ideological Narratives
Sofia Kalamanti, Panteion University of Social and Political Science - Variations in Online Self-Censorship: Analysis of the Turkish Case
Sinan Kircova, University of Southern California - Digital Public Diplomacy in Times of Crisis: The Case of X and how Turkey’s New Public Diplomacy is Shaped Through It
Maria Merkouraki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Session 1.1.2 – Room MYRINA
Chair: Clio Argyropoulou, Deree -The American College of Greece & Panteion University
- An Investigation Into the Economic Effects of the Syrian Refugee Influx in Lebanon
Ghofrane Lahib, American University of Sharjah - Navigating the Digital Frontier: Assessing the Impact of Digitisation on Labour Markets
Shambhavi Sahay, University of Glasgow - Leadership Without Capacity? Japan and the International Digital Trade Rule-making under the Perspective of Structural Power
Yilin Aileen Lu, Fudan University
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 Panels
Session 1.2.1 – Room HEPHAESTUS
Chair: Clio Argyropoulou, Deree -The American College of Greece & Panteion University
- The Madman Theory As Cyber Deterrence Model, a First Analytical Framework
Leonardo Lucchesi, University of Florence
Niccolò Mariottini, University of Florence - The Ethics of War in Cyberspace: Cyber Conduct Amounting to War Crimes to be Prosecuted by the ICC?
Hannah Pakula, The Australian National University - TERRA NOVA: Human Rights Dilemmas Of AI And The Need For An Effective Normative Global Framework
Shalvi Ponwar, O.P. Jindal Global University
Session 1.2.2 – Room MYRINA
Chair: Kevin W. Settles, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Data Assetization & Rentierships: Cooperative Truck Platooning in Ontario
Ivanna Kazantsev, Queen’s University - Digital Media Illiteracy and Hate Speech Towards Migrants in Eastern Europe
Triantafyllos Gkaragkanis, Babeș-Bolyai University & CY Cergy Paris Université - Right-wing Populism: style or doctrine?
Carlo De Nuzzo, Sciences Po Paris
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Panels
Session 1.3.1 – Workshop – Room HEPHAESTUS
Plato’s Meno: The Problems of Scientific Definitions in Our Understanding of the Political
Néstor Fernando Aranibar Campero, KU Leuven
Session 1.3.2 – Room MYRINA
Chair: Cassandra Rudenko, Queen’s University
- A perspective of IR: Is Artificial Intelligence a Reward or a Danger for States and Humanity?
Meltem Aran, Yeditepe University - The Future of Deepfakes in Russian Disinformation
Desiree Winns, George Washington University - An Analysis of Russian Model for Internal and External Implementation of Digital Authoritarianism
Elena Evdokimova, Lomonosov Moscow State University
