Organisers/Hosts: Vili Lehdonvirta, Philipp Riederle
Sessions: Tuesdays, 12pm–1pm (UK time), during Oxford term time, via Zoom
Participation: Open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please apply here if you would like to join the seminar sessions.
Spring/Trinity Term 2025
- Week 1: Tue 29 Apr 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Kaarlo Liukkonen, Aalto University
“Competing Clouds: U.S.-China Tech Rivalry and the Geoeconomic Turn” - Week 2: Tue 6 May 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Sofie Schönborn, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
“Negotiating Sovereignty in the Cloud: A Comparative Study of Sovereign Cloud Offerings” - Week 3: Tue 13 May 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Kayla Blomquist, Oxford China Policy Lab / Oxford Internet Institute
“Racing for Recognition? Theorising Emerging Status Hierarchies and Prestige Competition in the Artificial Intelligence Era” - Week 4: Tue 20 May 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Antonio Calcara, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
“International Relations and Technological Change: A Sectorial Perspective on Global Power Transitions” - Week 5: Tue 27 May 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Jukka Manner, Aalto University
“A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Environmental Impact of ICT” - Week 6: Tue 3 Jun 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Guillaume Beaumier, National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Quebec, Canada
“The Politics of Information in an Age of Economic Coercion” - Week 7: Tue 10 Jun 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Nicole Starosielski (tentative)
tbc - Week 8: Tue 17 Jun 2025, 12pm–1pm UK time
Bóxī Wú, Oxford Internet Institute
“Frictions in the Cloud: An Ethnographic Case Study of Local Data Centre Contestation in the UK”
About the Oxford-Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar
Today’s economies are critically dependent on transnational digital platforms and infrastructures. Platforms are shaped by economic forces but increasingly also by governments’ security interests, while large technology companies have themselves emerged as powerful actors in global politics. The Oxford-Aalto Digital Economic Security Seminar brings together emerging research on the political economy and governance of transnational digital platforms and infrastructures, broadly understood. The virtual seminar is hosted by Professor Vili Lehdonvirta and doctoral researcher Philipp Riederle at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University. The seminar has been running continuously since 2016 and was originally titled the Oxford Platform Economy Seminar.