Date: 11-13 February 2026
Location: University Hamburg, Germany
Deadline: October 15th 2025
We invite submissions for the closing conference of our research network, ‘Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous weapon systems between regulation and reflection’, which critically examines the many promises of algorithmic warfare, their world-making, performative forces as well as their ambiguities, limits and discrepancies. The current discourse is pervaded by buzzwords such as ‘value-based technologies’, ‘human in the loop’ and ‘responsible AI’, which are indicative here: while expressing the ethical demands on the part of the conventional arms industry and start-up technicians, they also appear to echo the values enshrined in international humanitarian law as well as the concerns of human and civil rights organisations and scientific expertise.