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Upcoming Events

Apr 24, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Harvard x Creators: Making Evidence-Based Public Health Information Viral

RSM Speaker Series, April 24

Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer discuss the Center for Health Communication‘s efforts with Jeff Hall...

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Apr 24, 2024 @ 5:30 PM

metaLAB April work-share: Petra Molnar on AI & Surveillance

New Book: The Walls Have Eyes

Special Work-share: Petra Molnar Book talk: "The Walls Have Eyes"From robo-dogs at the border to AI lie detectors used on refugees, new technologies are increasingly…

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Apr 25, 2024 @ 9:00 AM

Journalism and the Politics of Narrating African Suffering

Expert Roundtable

An expert roundtable focused on the key themes of Prof. j. Siguru Wahutu’s upcoming book In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa (Cambridge University…

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May 2, 2024 @ 9:30 AM

Platforms and the Right to Information

Hybrid Workshop, May 2

One-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy...

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May 8, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Information Foraging in a Social Media World

RSM Speaker Series

Carl Bergstrom explores social media's impact on the scale of human communication...

Past Events

Jan 13, 2015 @ 12:30 PM

The Great Firewall Inverts

with Berkman Fellow Nathan Freitas

Learn about this phenomenon that might be called an inversion of the Great Firewall. This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:00 AM

Conectados al Sur: Argentina

2014. Digitally Connected

Over the past five years, Youth and Media at the Berkman Center and UNICEF’s Voices of Youth Citizens team have been working together on a series of research…

Dec 2, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School

We think we know how IP works -- we talk about the "incentive" of intellectual property all the time. But what do actual artists, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs say IP…

Nov 25, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Unpacking open data: power, politics and the influence of infrastructures

with Berkman Affiliate, Tim Davies

Open data has gone global, but is it creating the civic change that many anticipated? Open data in practice is about more that datasets, licenses & apps. In unpacking what open…

Nov 14, 2014 @ 5:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Columbia

The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, and the Berkman Center for Internet …

Nov 7, 2014 @ 8:30 AM

Creativity without Law Conference

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, Arthur W. Fiske Distinguished Lecture Series and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

This event will focus on the growing body of scholarship examining the on-the-ground practices of creators and innovators.

Nov 4, 2014 @ 12:00 PM

Privacy, Surveillance, and Rebuilding Trust in Tech

A Conversation with Microsoft GC Brad Smith and Professor Jonathan Zittrain

This discussion will explore the role of law in protecting our rights in the physical world online, the complementary roles of law and technology in achieving this protection, and…

Oct 30, 2014 @ 3:30 PM

Authorship in the Digital World: How to Make It Thrive

An Authors Alliance event

In order for authors to navigate these turbulent waters, they need to be strategic in their partnerships and careful in contracting. Copyright is supposed to help even authors…

Oct 29, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

The Coming Swarm

Author Molly Sauter in discussion with Laurie Penny

In her new book, The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed…

Oct 28, 2014 @ 12:00 PM

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance

With Susan Crawford and other special guests

Harvard Law School Visiting Professor and co-director of the Berkman Center Susan Crawford joins Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, MA, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief…

Oct 24, 2014 @ 5:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at MIT

The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, and the Berkman Center for Internet …

Oct 21, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly

Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance…

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Oct 10, 2014 @ 2:00 PM

National Security and Cyberthreats

A Conversation with John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Join Assistant Attorney General for National Security HLS alumnus and Heyman Fellow John Carlin, together with moderator Jonathan Zittrain, for a conversation about significant…

Oct 2, 2014 @ 9:00 AM

The Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem

A conference of the Network of Centers, hosted by the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

On October 2, 2014 the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers will host an academic symposium on “The Evolution of the Internet Governance…

Sep 30, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

NymRights: Protecting Identity in the Digital Age

with aestetix, founder of NymRights

Do you use your "real" name online? What makes a name "real" anyways? Can Google, Facebook, or the government tell us?

Sep 23, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Digital Badges for Global Health Delivery Skills

Rebecca Weintraub, MD, Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University & Faculty Director, Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University

Healthcare professionals worldwide often have extensive non-clinical skills in management, public health, policy, or other fields which are not officially recognized through a…

Sep 19, 2014 @ 4:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale

This week's presenters/discussions include: (1) Amanda Levendowski on What We Talk About When We Talk About Revenge Porn; and (2) "The Internet is Dead. Isn't it?"

Sep 19, 2014 @ 12:00 PM

Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: A Conversation About National Security Letters

Hosted and Moderated by Christopher Bavitz of the Cyberlaw Clinic.

Join us for a lunch and discussion with Kurt Opsahl, Deputy General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which will address the issue of National Security Letters and…

Sep 17, 2014 @ 3:00 PM

Berkman Center 2014-2015 Orientation: Technical Showcase with the Geeks

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society welcomes students and other Harvard community members to an open session with the Center’s software development and systems operations…

Sep 16, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Drone Warfare and the Public Imagination

John Kaag, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

In 2012, U.S. drone strikes occurred most often in which nation? If you don’t know, don’t feel too bad. You’re not alone. You could just admit it and join the 27 percent of…