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From 11 to 15 May 2026, the fourth edition of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) organized by the Digital Constitutionalism Network took place in Dublin, Ireland. Entitled “Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms: Rights, Responsibilities and Governance”, this international (…)

Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero will present at the symposium "Statecraft, Sovereignty & Digital Government" that will take place on 16 - 17 April 2026 at Goldsmiths, University of London.

On Thursday, 26 March 2026 at 17:00, the PGMT Lab through the EU-funded project REMIT ("Reignite Multilateralism via Technology") will host a public discussion with Professor Marianne Franklin of the University of Groningen. The event, held at the Kleiner Saal of the Haus der Wissenschaften is open to the public and moderated by PGMT member Dr. Dennis Redeker.

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach participates at the conference "Code & Codex – AI and Ethics in Military Combat" that takes place at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/ Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg on 19th and 20th of March 2026.

Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach co-authored a new article about the discursive order of AI, published in Big Data & Society.

For 2026, the ZeMKI Steering Committee has selected seven international visiting scholars as part of the Visiting Research Fellowship program. Each fellow will spend at least four weeks collaborating with selected ZeMKI Labs.

On January 15, 2026, FOCUS magazine published an article entitled "'So toxic': Illegal nude images flood Musk's chatbot", in which ZeMKI member Christian Katzenbach shares his expertise on the chatbot Grok, which creates critical and illegal X-content on command.

On December 17 and 18, 2025, the international conference “GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future” will take place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and online via Zoom. ZeMKI will also be represented with several contributions.

On the occasion of ChatGPT's third anniversary, ZeMKI member Christian Katzenbach explains how AI can be controlled with a rule-based system.

In November 2025, the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen will welcome Prof. Dr. Andrea L. Guzman from Northern Illinois University in the USA as a visiting research fellow.

Until December 1, 2025, abstracts can be submitted for the workshop on international relations in the digital age, which is being organized by ZeMKI and the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, as well as the International Relations Section (IB Section) of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).

The 26th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place from October 15 to 18, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ZeMKI will also be represented with numerous contributions under this year's theme, “Ruptures.”