BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20210314T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1272742.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011010Z DESCRIPTION:\n Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st \;Cen tury \;is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse\, D irector of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. \;Drawing inspirati on from the title of Max Tegmark’s book\, \;Life 3.0: Being Human in t he Age of \;Artificial Intelligence\, the \;series draws upon a ra nge of scholars\, technology leaders\, and public interest technologists t o \;address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society \;and human life.\n\n\n\n Elliott Prasse-Freema n\, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapo re\, will give a talk titled\, 'Blockchained: Digital Improvisations and D eterritorialized Nationhood for Stateless Rohingya.' Professor Prasse-Free man will also be joined in conversation by Timothy McCarthy\, Adjunct Lect urer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.\n\n\n\n Description:\n \n\n\n Can stateless persons become legal/economic subjects without state r atification? The talk\, based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Ban gladesh camps\, Thai border towns\, and urban fringes in both Myanmar and Malaysia\, explores how members of Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnos\, suffering p ersistent ethnic cleansing\, have found themselves dispersed across Asia\, reduced to bodies receiving provisional refuge while enduring perpetual p olitico-legal exclusion (statelessness). A Malaysia-based Rohingya-led NGO has responded by attempting to circumvent state rejection by inscribing a spects of Rohingya (in)dividuals – biometric data\, kinship genealogy info rmation\, and records of community participation – upon a digital blockcha in ledger. The NGO seeks to mobilize blockchain’s affordances to iterative ly construct Rohingya subjects\, re-presenting them to new institutions (b anks rather than humanitarians) as quasi-legal persons\, producing entitie s ultimately certified for ‘financial inclusion’ - bank accounts and loans . This vision\, in its ambition to attain nothing less than the transforma tion of Rohingya from largely invisible stateless individuals to new jurid ico-economic subjects\, goes beyond techno whimsy. It also introduces the sobering risk fundamental to improvising with new technologies on some of the world’s most marginalized people. The talk presents ethnography of the initial roll-out of this project and concludes by reflecting on whether t his techno-governance dream ignores the political structures that have pro duced and maintained the Rohingyas’ marginalized position. It argues inste ad that this is a phenomenon in which the solution appears distasteful not only because it advances a problematic ‘solution’ (blockchain and financi al inclusion)\, but because it punctures the fantasy that a desirable poli tical remedy will ever be effected. The technological intervention provide s an implicit critique of those persist in believing that the inter-state political system (of ‘international law’ and the human rights regime) will finally address this problem.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T184500 LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T204433Z LOCATION:Wexner-434AB SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Blockchained: Digital Improvisations and Deterritoriali zed Nationhood for Stateless Rohingya URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/blockchained-digital- improvisations-and-deterritorialized-nationhood-stateless-rohingya END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR