Poster session at the conference “Entangled Normativities in the Digital Transformation: Technology, Society and the Shaping of Law”

Present your research where law, technology and society are being negotiated.

How much technological change can normative orders gover? How do law, ethics and social norms change themselves once their creation, mediation and enforcement become digitally mediated? No single discipline settles these questions. With a poster you discuss your project at the centre of the programme, alongside scholars and practitioners working on exactly these questions: Möllers (HU Berlin), Nassehi (LMU Munich), Paulus (former Justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court), Schlögl-Flierl (German Ethics Council), Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology), Vec (University of Vienna), Hansen (State Data Protection Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein) and Bubnys (European Commission), among others.

What you get:Viisibility in front of leading scholars and practitioners rather than in a parallel session; substantive feedback in conversation plus a short written comment on your abstract; a citable peer-review process; networking with doctoral researchers from across Europe; free attendance on both days. Potential poster publication on our website.

Who can apply. Doctoral researchers in law, science and technology studies, sociology, political science, philosophy and ethics, history, computer science and engineering with a societal research question, design, communication and media studies, and further or interdisciplinary fields. What matters is not your disciplinary label but your contribution to the relationship between normativity and technology. Your stage of doctorate is irrelevant: proposals, early outlines and first interim findings are as welcome as work nearing completion, and practitioners pursuing a doctorate alongside their work are invited too.

From big picture to concrete cases. We welcome conceptual and foundational contributions (theories of normativity under technological change, legitimacy and the rule of law in digital governance, the interplay of legal, ethical, social and technical norms, automation of norm application, interdisciplinary methodology) as well as specific, applied and empirical work (the AI Act and data protection law in practice, platform regulation, digital administration and courts, predictive policing, health data, technical standardisation, sustainability, and case studies of individual technologies, authorities, decisions or regulatory processes). Please relate your contribution to one of the three guiding questions: (1) To what extent is technological change amenable to normative and in particular legal governance? (2) To what extent must normative orders, above all the law, themselves change? (3) What potentials and risks does the technological transformation of normativity and law entail?

How it works. Each session opens with lightning talks: max. 90 seconds and one slide per poster; questions are taken at the posters rather than in the plenary. Day 1 (German, 5 November): pitch session 4:15–4:35 PM, poster session from 4:35 PM into the Apéro riche. Day 2 (English, 6 November): pitch session 11:20–11:40 AM, poster session 11:40 AM–12:35 PM before lunch. Posters are on display both days; your poster language determines your pitch day.

Peer review and selection. Each anonymised abstract is assessed independently by two members of the review committee, with divergences discussed in the committee. Criteria: thematic fit, academic quality, originality, clarity, and potential to spark discussion in an interdisciplinary audience. All applicants receive a briefly reasoned decision by early October 2026; interdisciplinary submissions are read by reviewers from different fields.

Poster. A0, portrait, printed and brought by you. Recommended: two or three key messages, body text at least 24 pt, a large self-explanatory title, and more visuals than running text — your poster should be understandable within a few minutes even when you are not next to it.

Questions: lst@sot.tum.de. We look forward to your application!

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