10:00 - 17:00
University of Kassel, Kassel
Conference "killer robot & Gender“
8. February 2020 | 10 – 17 Clock | University of Kassel | Campus Center (Moritzstraße 18) | lecture hall 3 | free entry
During the conference, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots should be taught, why a consideration of weapon systems and conflicts from the perspective of gender studies profitably for understanding inter alia. is humanitarian and security implications of autonomous weapons. From this perspective, can be investigated, which power relations in developing, present production and use of killer robots and how unjust distribution of power and social inequalities are perpetuated by this technology. Recommendations for action to be derived for policy, how we can ensure sustainable justice. be sure must have a look at it thrown, who is particularly affected by technological developments, to repeat so just not social injustice, but dissolve these.
Several lectures will include an introduction to gender theory and from that an analysis of weapons systems - which are no longer subject to a significant human control - made. What it is at all with killer robots, why concerns us all this development, how policies are made aware of the consequences of unfettered development of such weapons and how an international instrument can be achieved, to stop killer robots; these and other points will move through the various presentations. After each presentation there will be sufficient time, to ask questions and to talk. No experience is necessary, The conference is public, admission free and all interested parties are invited.
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Anna Katharina Ferl is Research Fellow in the program area of HSFK with the research areas of new weapons technologies / Autonomous weapon systems, Arms control and standard research.
Jürgen Altmann, Physicist and peace researcher, is a lecturer and researcher of experimental physics at the Technical University of Dortmund. He is the chairman of the Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security (FONAS) und Vizesprecher des International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).
Nina Bernarding forwards along with Kristina Lunz the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy Germany. She is an expert peacebuilding with a focus on peace mediation and governance of natural resources. Nina studied political science and conflict studies in London, Heidelberg and Santiago de Chile.
For a current schedule and more information: www.killer-roboter-stoppen.de
For further information and questions, please contact: Marius Pletsch For more information and questions, please contact: Marius Pletsch (pletsch[at]dfg-vk.de)