International conference: Circuits in Time

WHENE: 26 and 27 May 2026

WHERE: Faculty of Social Sciences and Computer History Museum 

The fourth conference of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) GRADE (Grassroots of Digital Europe) action entitled Circuits in Time: Creative Computing Cultures and Media Transfers in Europe will bring together participants from grassroots initiatives, GLAM institutions, educational organisations, and policy bodies from across Europe and beyond.

The aim of the conference is to highlight the value of creative computing as a practical and applied concept with diverse historical trajectories, and to foreground its longitudinal and immediate impact on communities, industries, and public institutions. By creating a shared space for reflection, exchange, and collaboration, the conference seeks to strengthen the network’s long-term legacy and support sustained engagement with stakeholders well beyond the lifetime of the COST Action, in which members of the cultural studies department also participate.

Programme:

• May 26: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana 

9.00: Registration 
9.30: Welcome 
9.45: Circuits of critique: “Diversity” interventions in hacking and FLOSS in North America, Keynote lecture by Christine Dunbar-Hester 
11.00: Coffee break 
11.30 :Women and minorities in creative computing in Europe, Open educational resource presentation 
12.30: Lunch break 
14.00: Privacy from below: Grassroots, creative computing and digital sovereignty in Europe, White paper presentation 
16.00: Coffee break 
16.30: Revisiting old futures: Piracy as media archaeology, Roundtable
18.00: COST GRADE GC Session 

• May 27: Computer History Museum 

9.30: Museum tour (optional, self-paid) 
10.45: Coffee break 
11.00: Creative computing in Europe: From grassroots to heritage, Keynote lecture by Maria B. Garda and Paweł Grabarczyk 
12.00: Lunch break 
13.00: Silicon dawn: Histories and cultures of creative computing in Europe (1970-2000), Book presentation 
15.00: Coffee break 
15.30: Collaborative custody: A bridge to permanent memory for intangible digital heritage, Roundtable 
17.00: Stories of grassroots digital Europe, Exhibition opening

Leran more obout the conference on the link.