Vox-Pol Conference – Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and the Internet: Present and Future Trends
20 augustus 2018 tot 21 augustus 2018VOX-Pol’s third biennial conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam (Science Park 904 - 1098 XH Amsterdam) on 20 – 21 August 2018, with post-conference workshops taking place on 22 August 2018. Athenaeum Boekhandel will attend with books.
*** CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION: 8 AUGUST 2018***
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The full conference programme, including keynote, book launch, and 17 panels, is now available online. To view this, please click on the button below
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mina al-Lami heads the long-established team of online jihadism experts at BBC Monitoring (BBCM). She is the editor of BBCM’s Jihadism page that features daily reports and insight on jihadist developments, trends, profiles and online platforms. Her team relies on meticulous data gathering to inform their analyses.
Mina, who is a native Arabic speaker, has been closely monitoring and researching the activities of jihadist groups and individuals online for over a decade. This constant watch has allowed her to quickly detect shifts, trends, and the latest online tools and platforms jihadists experiment with and seek to exploit.
Prior to joining the BBC in 2013, Mina was a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics where she focused on the subject of online radicalisation. She is a regular speaker at events related to jihadist groups and their media operations.
BOOK LAUNCH
J.M. Berger will launch his new book, Extremism (MIT Press), at an evening reception during the conference in Amsterdam.
J.M.’s prior publications include, with Jonathon Morgan, The ISIS Twitter Census (2015), with Jessica Stern, ISIS: The State of Terror (2015), and Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam (2011), along with numerous other reports and papers.
Previous to joining VOX-Pol, J.M. Berger was a Fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, a Non-resident Fellow with Brookings’ Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, an Associate Fellow at VOX-Pol partner the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London (KCL), and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-terrorism (ICCT) — The Hague.
