Workshop: Virtual Ownership - Assessing Ownership in the Digital Age

The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) is pleased to invite to the second workshop on Virtual Ownership that will take place on Tuesday, 25 November 2025 on Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines.

This event is part of a BRAINSTORM project funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies and will bring together researchers from different disciplines to explore the evolving nature of ownership in digital environments.

Programme

Introduction

10.00-10.05

Introduction BRAINSTORM funding: Sylvie Fromentin (Institute for Advanced Studies)
10.05-10.30

Introduction VIRTOWN by the BRIDGES research group: Katrin Becker (PI), Réka Markovich (Co-PI), Leonardo Romano, Liuwen Yu, Elena Turmel

Diagnosing the problem: Deconstructing digital ownership

10.30-11.30

Wessel Reijers (Paderborn University): Authorship and Authenticity in Blockchain and AI
11.30-12.30

Tara Merk (CNRS/University of Paris II): Read, Write, Own, Democratize?
12.30-14.00

Lunch break

Imaging the future: New models for digital ownership

14.00-15.00

Johannes Bennke (Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf): Protocological Ecosystems: From Ownership to the Responsible Organisation of Digital Lifeworlds
15.00-16.00

Igor Dunayev (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University): Tokenized Reputation as Digital Property: Bridging Virtual and Real-World Ownership & Intentions Through Blockchain-Based Identity Capital
16.00-16.30

Coffee break
16.30-17.30

Michał Araszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University Kraków): What Kind of Concept is Ownership? Logical and Normative Dimensions of a Legal Idea