BIT-ACT Workshop at the University of Bologna

  • Date:

    14 JUNE
    -
    15 JUNE 2022
     
  • Event location: Department of Political and Social Sciences, Palazzo Hercolani, Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna

  • Type: Workshop

As BIT-ACT approaches the end of its third year, the research team will gather for a two-day conference with the Advisory Board and other international experts in the fields of anti-corruption and integrity, social movements and civic participation, digital media, and innovation.

On the 15th of June, everyone is invited to attend the panels in person (see full program below).

The workshop finishes with the talk "Anti-Corruption Reset: Beyond Siloes to Civil Society Collaboration, Adaptive Nonviolent Action" (Shaazka Beyerle, TraCCC/George Mason University) in an open hybrid format.

If you want to attend the keynote speech online, please click here

15 June 2022, Wednesday - 16.00-17.30 (CEST)
"Anti-Corruption Reset: Beyond Siloes to Civil Society Collaboration, Adaptive Nonviolent Action"
Keynote speaker: Shaazka Beyerle (TraCCC/George Mason University)
Researcher, writer, and educator in nonviolent action, with a focus on anti-corruption and accountability (including linkages to governance, development, and violent conflict) as well as gender and nonviolent action. She is an elected Coordinating Committee member of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) Civil Society Coalition, where she served once before from 2013 to 2016. Beyerle is the author of Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice (Lynne Rienner, 2014).

On Zoom or in person at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna (Aula 2, Palazzo Hercolani, Strada Maggiore 45 Bologna).