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Upcoming talks
- Fortress Tech, May 17 (Virtual)
- POINT, June 2-4 (Sarajevo)
- re-publica, June 8-10 (Berlin)
Past talks
2021
- December 12: Internet Governance Forum
- November 24: Bread & Net, A Global Reimagining of the Santa Clara Principles
- November 11: Heinrich Boell Foundation talk on Alaa Abd El Fattah’s book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
- November 11: Paris Peace Forum
- November 10: Globalt Fokus – Internet for All, by All
- October 25: PLI, Online Platforms and Popular Technologies 2021: Legal and Regulatory Responses to Technology Challenges
- October 19-20: Something Digital (virtual)
- October 8: Toronto Public Library (book talk, virtual)
- October 7: Truth and Trust Online 2021 (virtual)
- September 30-October 3: DIG Awards 2021 (Modena, Italy)
- September 23: 9pm CEST PrivSec Global (virtual)
- September 10-11: Ars Electronica (Linz)
- August 13-15: International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, Hamburg – Future of Code Politics
- July 20: CIHR Sommerfest
- July 15, 12-2 CEST: Hans Bredow Institut, “Using Courts to Effect Change: Can We (Pre)Judge the Future?”
- June 26: Code NL-D Symposium: Reclaiming Digital Agency
- June 10, 3pm ET: Revisions Festival
- June 7-10: RightsCon
- 21 May: re:publica Berlin
- 13 May, 18:00-18:45 BST: Bristol Ideas (video)
- 7 May, 2:40 PST: PBS Crosscut Festival
- 4 May, 11:15 CEST: Internet Week Denmark (Virtual keynote)
- 4/18: The Ethics of Verification (Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab)
- 22 April, 14:00 CEST: Mediacentar Sarajevo
- 4/17: City Lights Virtual Book Reading on C-SPAN
- 4/3, 12pm Pacific (US): Virtual book reading (with Ben Tarnoff) hosted by City Lights Bookstore
- 3/25, 14:45 CET: LAILEC panel on content moderation and AI
- 3/24, 12pm US Central Time: Move the Needle Free Speech Series with the Policy Circle
- 3/24, 7pm GMT: Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism, with Jillian C. Yorke in conversation with Adam Greenfield, Housmans Book Shop
- 3/17, 9:15pm CET: Did AI Do That? Mitigating the Potential Risks to User Expression Online (MozFest, virtual)
- 3/16, 3:15pm GMT: SXSW: The Perils of Deplatforming
- 3/4: Digital Forays: Digital Data Gathering & Changing Ways of Kowing I: Witnessing+Proof+Human Rights (NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies)
- 3/2: Night Nomads (Brisbane, Australia – virtual)
- 2/18: Who controls the messengers? Regulating journalism and social media while protecting free speech – an EJN panel
2020
- 7/30: International Sites of Conscience webinar on “real fake news”
- 7/29: RightsCon (Virtual)
- 2/28: Free Friday with MEP Karen Melchior (Copenhagen)
- 2/27: The Digital Agenda in Europe (Copenhagen)
- 2/17: Social Media: Challenges and Ways to Promote Freedom and Support Activists (Doha)
2019
- 11/11-12: Berlin Democracy Conference (Berlin)
- 10/2-4: NetHui (Wellington, NZ)
- 9/14: NextCloud (Berlin)
- 6/11-14: RightsCon (Tunis)
- 5/31-6/2: DIG Awards (Riccione, Italy)
- 3/8: SXSW (Austin)
- 5/25-26: Keynote, University of Toronto Art Museum (Toronto)
2018 and before…
- 11/19-21: Bread and Net (Beirut)
- 9/27: TEDxHamburg (Hamburg)
- 9/21: Das ist Netzpolitik! (Berlin)
- 9/2-3: IFA+ Summit (Berlin)
- 7/22: Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival (Kells, Ireland)
- 6/27-28: Fusion Festival (Germany)
- 6/13: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (Bonn)
- 5/29: ECPMF GameChanger conference (Leipzig)
- 5/3: re:publica (Berlin)
- 4/11-15: International Festival of Journalism (Perugia)
- 1/31, 2/3: transmediale (Berlin)
2017
- 12/4: All Things in Moderation (Los Angeles)
- 11/9-10: Keynote, NetHui (Auckland)
- 10/7: HIIG’s Privacy Jam (Berlin)
- 10/5-6: Keynote, 9984 (Berlin)
- 9/30-10/1: Wired Next Fest (Florence)
- 9/25: PDF Ukraine (Kiev)
- 9/11-13: re:publica (Thessaloniki)
- 9/7-8: re:publica (Dublin)
- 9/1: Das ist Netzpolitik! (Berlin)
- 8/12: Fuchsbau Festival (Hanover)
- 8/5-7: SHA (Netherlands)
- 5/23-24: Public Lives/Private Platform: The Politics of Twitter (Amsterdam)
- 5/8-10: re:publica (Berlin)
- 5/6: #UNIT 2017 – The Global LGBTI Tech & Science Conference (Berlin)
- 4/20-22: CheckCon (Beirut)
- 3/29-31: RightsCon (Brussels)
- 3/20-21/2017: Princeton-Fung Global Forum (Berlin)
- 3/6-10: Internet Freedom Festival (Valencia)
- 1/10: “Social Media − Industry censorship or consumer rights?”, European Parliament ALDE Seminar (Brussels)
2016
- 10/28: Netzpolitischer Kongress – Keynote (Berlin)
- 10/7: Das ist Netzpolitik! (Berlin)
- 10/5-8: Association of Internet Researchers (Berlin)
- 9/20-21: Empodera Live! (Málaga)
- 9/14-16: The Circle of European Communicators (Athens)
- 7/6: Keynote, Central European University Summer School, Topics in Online Violent Political Extremism (Budapest)
- 6/29-7/3: Fusion Festival (Germany)
- 5/25: Point (Sarejevo)
- 5/10: Subversive Festival (Zagreb)
- 5/2-4: re:publica (Berlin)
- 4/8-10: International Journalism Festival (Perugia)
- 3/30-4/1: RightsCon Silicon Valley (San Francisco)
- 3/19-21: IPI World Congress (Doha)
- 3/1-6: Internet Freedom Festival (Valencia)
- 1/27-29: Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (Brussels)
2015
- 12/3: GOTO Berlin (Berlin)
- 11/13: Between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: Minorities and Social Media, Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul)
- 10/13: Ada Lovelace Day Keynote, Thoughtworks (Berlin)
- 9/10: Xenith Dinner (Berlin)
- 9/4: Das Ist Netzpolitik! (Berlin)
- 6/28-29: Advanced Topics in Internet Governance, Civil Society and Policy Advocacy, CEU (Budapest)
- 6/19: Freedom Conference (Riga)
- 5/28-30: Ideas City (NYC)
- 5/21-25: World Congress of the Hedonist International
- 5/8-9: Civil Disobedience Beyond the State (Berlin)
- 5/5-7: re:publica (Berlin)
- 4/16-19: International Journalism Festival (Perugia)
- 4/16-17: Global Conference on Cyberspace (The Hague)
- 3/13-17: SXSW (Austin)
- 3/9-10: The Ethics of Algorithms (Berlin)
- 3/1-6: Circumvention Tech Festival (Valencia)
- 2/26: “Manipulating Social Media: Changing Political and Geographic Reality,” Central European University (Budapest)
- 1/30: Coding for Social Change, Cardiff University (Cardiff)
- 1/24-25: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit (Cebu City, Philippines)
- 1/16: Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (Chicago)
2014
- 12/13: Free Connected Minds (Beirut)
- 12/12: ISIS vs. The Arab Spring – From Social Media Utopia to Dystopia (Berlin)
- 11/25-27: Arab IGF (Beirut)
- 11/17-19: Privacy, security and surveillance: tackling dilemmas and dangers in the digital realm (Sussex)
- 11/15: ORGCon (London)
- 10/17: Konferenz: Das ist Netzpolitik! (Berlin)
- 10/15-16: Future Places Festival (Porto)
- 10/10: Internet Governance. Actors, Technology, Content, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin)
- 9/26-29: Freedom Not Fear (Brussels)
- 9/17: Colloquium: 60 Years of CERN – 60 Years of Science for Peace (Geneva)
- 7/25: Castan Centre Human Rights Conference (Melbourne)
- 7/24: A conversation with Bernard Keane and Electronic Frontiers Australia, Electron Workshop (Melbourne)
- 7/22: “Unfriended? Social media companies and government censorship in times of violence,” Australia National University (Canberra)
- 6/22-24: MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, “Surveillance and the Open Internet” (video)
- 6/5-6: Personal Democracy Forum (NYC)
- 5/28: Stockholm Internet Forum (Stockholm)
- 5/3-5: “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby, Let’s Talk About PGP“, re:publica (video); bonus panel (video) (Berlin)
- 4/30-5/5: International Journalism Festival (Perugia)
- 4/28-29: Freedom Online Coalition meeting (Tallinn)
- 3/10-12: The East/West Center’s “Challenges of a Free Press” (Yangon)
- 2/25: Phare (Ghent)
- 2/5: Reporting in the Age of Eavesdropping, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (Berkeley)
- 1/28: “Why Privacy Matters,” Birzeit University, Palestine (video) (Birzeit)
- 1/20-23: Arabloggers Summit (Amman)2013
2013
- 12/7: “Whatever Happened to Privacy?” (Berlin)
- 11/15-16: McGill University International Colloquium: The Participatory Condition (Montreal)
- 11/6: MIT Media Lab Conversation Series (video; liveblog) (Cambridge)
- 10/22: Arizona State University, Debate on the Right to Online Anonymity (video) (Phoenix)
- 10/25-27: Ideas City (São Paulo)
- 8/7: Digitale Gesellschaft/c-base (Berlin)
- 7/31-8/4: OHM 2013 (Netherlands)
- 7/18-20: SHARE Boat Camp (Rijeka)
- 6/17-18: Freedom Online Conference (Tunis)
- 6/7: TEDxPoynter (video) (St. Petersburg, FL)
- 5/22-23: Stockholm Internet Freedom for Global Development Conference
- 5/19-21: IPI World Congress: Documenting Change/Empowering Media (Amman)
- 5/13-18: European University Institute Summer School (Florence)
- 5/6-8: re:publica (video 1; video 2) (Berlin)
- 4/27: New Media, New Politics? (Post-) Revolutions in Theory and Practice (audio) (London)
- 4/8-9: The Internet and New Media in Democracy Promotion (Bonn)
- 3/30: Social Media and Freedom of Expression Conference (Istanbul)
- 3/21-24: Keynote, Energize, Mobilize, Polarize! (Berlin)
- 3/12: Cryptowars Déjà Vu: Controlling Exports of Tech, SXSW (Austin)
- 3/5: The Internet and Africa: What is at Stake? – Co-sponsored by the US Mission and ISOC (Geneva)
- 2/14-15: Internet 2013: Shaping policies to advance media freedom (Vienna)
- 2/25-26 Advancing Internet Policy in the Digital Age (Cairo)
2012
- 12/12: Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: Why Speech Isn’t Free, Yet (Florence)
- 12/5: Mitigating DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for an Evolving Landscape (NYC)
- 11/9-11: Mozilla Festival (London)
- 11/6-9: Internet Governance Forum (Baku)
- 10/24-28: Impakt Festival (Utrecht)
- 10/22-23: Keynote, Internet Dagarna,.SE (Stockholm)
- 10/9: Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy, “Media responsibility and potential to foster democracy” (Strasbourg)
- 9/13-14: Internet and Human Rights: Building a free, open, and secure Internet (invitation only) (Berlin)
- 7/2-3: Global Voices Summit 2012 (Nairobi)
- 6/14: Global Network Initiative 2012 Learning Forum (Washington, DC)
- 6/11: Citizen Empowerment Against Censorship (Madrid)
- 5/31-6/1: RightsCon Rio (Rio de Janeiro)
- 5/20-21: Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas (Austin)
- 5/1-4: re:publica (Berlin)
- 4/18-19: Stockholm Internet Forum (Stockholm)
- 4/3-4: West Virginia University’s Festival of Ideas: “The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Social Media and Free Speech in the Middle East” (Charleston)
- 3/27: Having Your Say Online: The People’s Voice in Authoritarian Contexts, Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
- 3/29: Google Big Tent Event on Digital Citizenship, panel: “The Modern Town Square: Encouraging Civil Discourse Online” (Mountainview)
- 3/31: International Studies Association: “New Media and Foreign Policy” working group (San Diego)
- 4/1: Yale Law School Conference on Global Censorship (New Haven)
- 3/18-19: Cyber Dialogue Forum, Toronto, Canada
- 3/11: SXSW Panel: “How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed” (Austin)
- 2/23: Stanford University’s Liberation Technology Seminar Series (Palo Alto)
- 2/14: World Affairs Council, along with Rebecca MacKinnon: Examining Online Rights and Freedoms (video) (San Francisco)
- 2/1: Anonymity on the Internet: A Necessary Evil? Onassis Cultural Center (Athens)
- 1/25: Jan25 A Year Later, Columbia Journalism School (NYC)
- 1/18: Yahoo! Change Your World Summit (Cairo)
2011
- 12/4-6: PalConnect (Ramallah)
- 11/17: With Evgeny Morozov at UC Berkeley/Dissent Magazine (Berkeley)
- 11/10: Munk School of Global Affairs (video) (Toronto)
- 11/9: Stanford Law School (Palo Alto)
- 11/2: Columbia University Event on Free Expression (Istanbul)
- 10/28-29: First World Bloggers Conference (Foz do Iguacu)
- 10/24-25: Access’ Silicon Valley Human Rights Summit (San Francisco)
- 10/14: Bioneers (San Rafael)
- 10/13: Keynote, Humanities and Technology Association Conference, Bowie State University, Maryland (Bowie)
- 10/10: European Neighborhood Journalism Network – Media Futures: Policy, Politics and Power (Brussels)
- 10/8: 3rd Arabloggers Meeting (Tunis)
- 9/8: M100 Sanssouci Colloquium (Potsdam)
- 9/10-12: Open Video Conference (NYC)
- 7/17-22: International School on Digital Transformation (Porto)
- 7/13: American Constitution Society for Law & Policy luncheon, 12-1:30pm (San Francisco)
- 6/15: CFP 2011 (video) (Washington, DC)
- 6/11: ADC Convention: Social Networking in a Changing Media (video) (Washington DC)
- 6/6-7: Personal Democracy Forum (video) (NYC)
- 5/25: mesh (Toronto)
- 4/17: re: campaign keynote (Berlin)
- 4/15: re:publica 2011 (Berlin)
- 4/10: National Conference for Media Reform (Boston)
- 4/3: Lesley University/Open Media Boston: Digital Media and Popular Uprisings (audio) (Cambridge)
- 3/11: SXSW (Austin)
- 2/11: Egypt and Beyond: What is happening on the ground and what comes next, Harvard Law School (Cambridge)
- 2/11: Access Symposium: The Middle East, the Revolution, the Internet (Online)
- 2/11: Northwestern University (Chicago)
- 2/11: Harvard Law School (Cambridge)
- 1/11: Harvard Kennedy School (Cambridge)
2010
- 10/10: Google Internet at Liberty (Budapest)
- 5/10: Global Voices Summit (Santiago)
- 5/10: Al Jazeera Unplugged (video) (Doha)
2009
- 12/09: Arabloggers Workshop (Beirut)
- 9/09: Middle East Librarians’ Association Annual Conference (Boston)
- 6/09: AEJMC (Boston)