CONFERENCE
Burkhard Schafer is one of the leading interdisciplinary researchers working on overlapping areas between law, mathematic modeling, Artificial Intelligence, computer technologies, and computational linguistics. He is Co-Director and Co-Founder of the International Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics at the University of Edinburgh and a senior lecturer in Computational Legal Theory at the School of Law, the University of Edinburgh.
Mr. Schafer is author of numerous world-famous projects and research proposals with enormous theoretical and practical relevance He has received several awards and grants and is one of the leading experts in the field.
Lecture 1
When Greece lost its Marbles – Computer technology and the fight against art smuggling.
The lecture will take place on March 25, 19:00,
kim? Spīķeri, Maskavas iela 12/1
Additional information Lecture 2 Deceptively simple: ID management and regulation between globalism and localism.
The lecture will take place on March 26, 13:00 – 14:30,
Room 311, SSE Riga, Strelnieku iela 4a
Additional informacion 1
Additional information 2 Both lectures will be in English.
When Greece lost its Marbles – Computer technology and the fight against art smuggling
The talk will explore the contribution of Artificial intelligence, cognitive and computer science and legal philosophy to the fight against the trade in illegally excavated antiquities. The trade with looted and stolen antiquities and cultural artefacts is a substantive problem for international law enforcement. It is estimated that nearly 80% of all cultural objects coming on to the market have been illegally looted and smuggled from their country of origin, and it is reported that thefts of art and antiquities are joining drugs, money laundering, and the illegal arms trade as one of the largest areas of international criminal activity. This crime damages the integrity of archaeological sides and of historical information and heritage. My talk describe a repository for the registration and search of cultural heritage objects, and thereby illustrate how novel retrieval and classification technologies can be deployed to facilitate the work of law enforcement agencies to counter the transnational problem of trade with illicit cultural objects. So far, the main strategy of regulating crimes of this nature has been the enactment of international and national legislation, such as the 1954 Hague Convention, the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the 1990 UNIDROIT Convention, and the UK Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act 2003, respectively. However, this legislation is only of limited effectiveness, since it regulates the illegal import, export, sale, or movement of cultural objects that are proven to be stolen or looted. However, the main problem is that most cultural objects lack provenance information, and thus cannot be considered stolen under this legislative framework. Access to information, and intelligent database support, can be part of an answer to this challenge. Form a theoretical perspective, it poses the intriguing challenge to account for multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdiction descriptions of objects, in a way that make them useful for “first line of defence” personnel like customs and excise officials and art dealers.
Deceptively simple: ID management and regulation between globalism and localism.
Digital identity and digital identity management systems are key issues in developing regulatory and technological solutions for lives that are increasingly lived in cyberspace. Recognised as a fundamental sphere of personal expression by a recent decision of the German Constitutional Court, the western approach to digital identity and digital identity management systems centres traditionally around notions of privacy and property (and the fear of ID theft). Individuals have typically many different digital identities across domains (both web based and otherwise) - e.g. virtual worlds, blogs, social networking sites, chat rooms, wikis, game sites, e-commerce applications, identity registers and databases etc. The digital identity realm encompasses a wide range of problems (such as identity fraud), challenges (e.g. pervasiveness, invisibility or seamlessness of digital identity technologies) and issues (for instance, liberty, privacy, control of digital identities, trust). Technological solutions promoted by global corporations such as Microsoft assume maybe naively that the concept of identity is self-identical - that is the same everywhere. Legal solutions promoted by international organisations tend to make the same assumption. But digital identity is both an international and local creature that makes its play in different jurisdictions with different social and legal cultures. For instance, India is a phenomenal digital identity market in the process of implementing law that particularly impacts digital identity. But cultural and cognitive attitudes to identity and privacy are fundamentally different from the West. The talk explores how regulation through law and technology can or should take cognizance of concepts from philosophy, anthropology and cognitive science to develop more flexible, and hence more efficient, solutions to the regulation of digital identities. At the centre of the talk will be the notion of “ID theft” and “deception”, revisited through a comparative cultural approach.
Mr. Schafer is author of numerous world-famous projects and research proposals with enormous theoretical and practical relevance He has received several awards and grants and is one of the leading experts in the field.
Lecture 1
When Greece lost its Marbles – Computer technology and the fight against art smuggling.
The lecture will take place on March 25, 19:00,
kim? Spīķeri, Maskavas iela 12/1
Additional information Lecture 2 Deceptively simple: ID management and regulation between globalism and localism.
The lecture will take place on March 26, 13:00 – 14:30,
Room 311, SSE Riga, Strelnieku iela 4a
Additional informacion 1
Additional information 2 Both lectures will be in English.
When Greece lost its Marbles – Computer technology and the fight against art smuggling
The talk will explore the contribution of Artificial intelligence, cognitive and computer science and legal philosophy to the fight against the trade in illegally excavated antiquities. The trade with looted and stolen antiquities and cultural artefacts is a substantive problem for international law enforcement. It is estimated that nearly 80% of all cultural objects coming on to the market have been illegally looted and smuggled from their country of origin, and it is reported that thefts of art and antiquities are joining drugs, money laundering, and the illegal arms trade as one of the largest areas of international criminal activity. This crime damages the integrity of archaeological sides and of historical information and heritage. My talk describe a repository for the registration and search of cultural heritage objects, and thereby illustrate how novel retrieval and classification technologies can be deployed to facilitate the work of law enforcement agencies to counter the transnational problem of trade with illicit cultural objects. So far, the main strategy of regulating crimes of this nature has been the enactment of international and national legislation, such as the 1954 Hague Convention, the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the 1990 UNIDROIT Convention, and the UK Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act 2003, respectively. However, this legislation is only of limited effectiveness, since it regulates the illegal import, export, sale, or movement of cultural objects that are proven to be stolen or looted. However, the main problem is that most cultural objects lack provenance information, and thus cannot be considered stolen under this legislative framework. Access to information, and intelligent database support, can be part of an answer to this challenge. Form a theoretical perspective, it poses the intriguing challenge to account for multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdiction descriptions of objects, in a way that make them useful for “first line of defence” personnel like customs and excise officials and art dealers.
Deceptively simple: ID management and regulation between globalism and localism.
Digital identity and digital identity management systems are key issues in developing regulatory and technological solutions for lives that are increasingly lived in cyberspace. Recognised as a fundamental sphere of personal expression by a recent decision of the German Constitutional Court, the western approach to digital identity and digital identity management systems centres traditionally around notions of privacy and property (and the fear of ID theft). Individuals have typically many different digital identities across domains (both web based and otherwise) - e.g. virtual worlds, blogs, social networking sites, chat rooms, wikis, game sites, e-commerce applications, identity registers and databases etc. The digital identity realm encompasses a wide range of problems (such as identity fraud), challenges (e.g. pervasiveness, invisibility or seamlessness of digital identity technologies) and issues (for instance, liberty, privacy, control of digital identities, trust). Technological solutions promoted by global corporations such as Microsoft assume maybe naively that the concept of identity is self-identical - that is the same everywhere. Legal solutions promoted by international organisations tend to make the same assumption. But digital identity is both an international and local creature that makes its play in different jurisdictions with different social and legal cultures. For instance, India is a phenomenal digital identity market in the process of implementing law that particularly impacts digital identity. But cultural and cognitive attitudes to identity and privacy are fundamentally different from the West. The talk explores how regulation through law and technology can or should take cognizance of concepts from philosophy, anthropology and cognitive science to develop more flexible, and hence more efficient, solutions to the regulation of digital identities. At the centre of the talk will be the notion of “ID theft” and “deception”, revisited through a comparative cultural approach.