Events
The following is a list of events from Digital Civil Society Lab. View all events from Stanford PACS.
Upcoming Events
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: The Quantified Worker
October 5th, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Death Glitch
November 2nd, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Data Driven
December 7th, 2023 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Digital Civil Society Speaker Series: Shifting the Frame: The Labors of ImageNet and AI DataDigital Civil Society Speaker Series:
January 11th, 2024 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm PT - Join us for a monthly gathering that explores critical insights...
Past Events
Facial Recognition Technologies in Africa: From Deployment to Advocacy
July 5th, 2023 - 4:00 am to 5:00 am PT - In recent years, various governments across Africa started employing facial...
Transit Talks at Villanova University
April 20th, 2023 - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST - The Waterhouse Family Institute Transit Talks is the marquis collaborative...
Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
April 17th, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm -
Global AI: Reframing the Conversation
April 13th, 2023 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm - This event is hosted by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered...
Surveillance and Cities panel, featuring Simone Browne, Lilly Irani, Tawana Petty and Shakeer Rahman
April 13th, 2023 - 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm - This event is hosted by the Technology & Racial Equity...
Meet the Coalition for Independent Tech Research
March 1st, 2023 - 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm - Every aspect of modern life is influenced by digital data...
The Ties That Bind? What Social Media Companies are Doing to Fight Disinformation and Weaponization of their Platforms
September 14th, 2022 - 9:05 am to 10:00 am PST - Social media platforms often promise that their main purpose is...
The Upgrade Initiative: Unveiling Coded Bias
August 31st, 2022 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am PST - The Upgrade Initiative is a collaborative effort to integrate digital skills...
Dataraising and Digital Civil Society
August 10th, 2022 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PT - What is dataraising and why should nonprofits care? For millennia...
The Upgrade Initiative: Me, My .Org, and AI
July 27th, 2022 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am PT - The Upgrade Initiative is a collaborative effort to integrate digital skills...
The Upgrade Initiative: Navigating a Sea of Disinformation
July 13th, 2022 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am PST - The Upgrade Initiative is a collaborative effort to integrate digital skills...
Disrupting Big Tech: Independent, Community-Rooted AI Research focused on Africa & the African diaspora
May 4th, 2022 - 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm PT - The Center for African Studies (CAS) is excited to host...
Decolonizing Data, One Language at a Time.
March 28th, 2022 - 9:30 am to 11:00 am PT - At a time of growing anxiety about the ubiquity of...
Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era. Think Global, Act Local
February 23rd, 2022 - 11:30 am to 12:30 pm PT - Digital advocacy organizations are a novel, significant addition to the...
Zero-rating in Africa, Reconsidered
January 27th, 2022 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am PT - Throughout the world, people access the Internet via various zero-rated...
Seattle Arts & Lectures with Lucy Bernholz
December 8th, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT - In How We Give Now, Lucy Bernholz shows that philanthropy is...
The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
December 1st, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT - This talk will focus on the the social politics of...
Philanthropy and Power
November 16th, 2021 - 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm PT - Join us for a conversation about the many intersections of...
Making a difference without millions: How Americans give now
November 4th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PT - Join our distinguished panelists for a dynamic discussion on Lucy...
Talk Radio Europe: How We Give Now
October 20th, 2021 - 8:10 am to 8:25 am PT - Listen to Talk Radio Europe to hear Lucy Bernholz discuss...
Rewriting the Rules of Philanthropy: How We Give Now
October 12th, 2021 - 8:00 am to 9:00 am PT - Philanthropy is not the sole domain of institutions or wealthy...
Book Launch: How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us
October 12th, 2021 - 3:00 am to 4:00 am PT - Sciences Po, the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair and the Philanthro-Lab are...
Leading Together 2021: Digital Dependencies, Discrimination, and Democracy: What are Philanthropy’s Roles?
June 16th, 2021 - 11:20 am to 12:10 pm PST - Every aspect of public life depends on digital systems. Awareness...
Decoding Digital Democracy in Africa
June 16th, 2021 - 9:00 am to 10:00 am PST - The Digital Civil Society Lab is delighted to be partnering...
The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism
June 2nd, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - In this talk, Couldry and Mejias draw on their recent...
Hashtag heroes vs. disinfo dystopia: The left, the right, and the truth about social media activism
May 26th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Recent scholarship has generated two distinct impressions of US-based social...
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America
May 24th, 2021 - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Stanford Professor of Communication...
2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference: Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
May 19 - 20th, 2021 - 10:00 am to 5:30 pm PDT - May 19-20 Rapidly developing technologies can be an unprecedented force...
Toward a Pluriverse of Care: Messaging Transnational Indigenous Protest
May 19th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Scholars of social media and social protest have established that...
Civic signals: The qualities of flourishing digital spaces
May 12th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Talia Stroud is a Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism and...
Book Launch: Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
May 6th, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am PDT - Join the Ada Lovelace Institute, Department of Media and Communications...
The Black Freedom Struggle & Movement Capture
May 5th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Utilizing a historical lens, this talk will examine the influence...
Reviving Africa’s Endangered Civic Spaces
April 28th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - As threats to digital rights continue, it is important to...
The Challenges of Audits, Accountability & Algorithmic Justice
April 14th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - As its popularity and proliferation increase, AI tools are slowly...
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
April 12th, 2021 - 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Kate Crawford is a leading expert on how artificial intelligence is altering...
AI and Democracy: Pursuing the Possibilities
April 8th, 2021 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PDT - Democracy and the Digital Transformation of Our Lives Digital technologies...
How Status Seeking and Social Learning Shape Political Polarization on Social Media: Evidence from a Mixed-Method Field Experiment on Twitter
April 7th, 2021 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT - Popular narratives about how social media shapes political polarization emphasize...
Conversation between Writers of Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
March 19th, 2021 - 9:30 am to 10:30 am PDT - One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is...
I Was Still Black When He Gave Me 200k: Transnational Frictions, Class, and the Tech Entrepreneurial Life
February 17th, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm - Please join the Center for African Studies and Stanford PACS...
Pre-Conference Session: Syndemic Crises, Philanthropy and Civil Society – A Discussion Of Blueprint 2021
February 16th, 2021 - 9:00 am to 10:00 am PT - Lucy Bernholz, director of the Stanford PACS Digital Civil Society...
Book launch: Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
January 21st, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:15 am - Join Stanford PACS and Data & Society for a special...
[Virtual Series] Where, What, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure?
November 10th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm -
[Virtual Series] Digital Public Infrastructure: A Corporation for Public Software
October 27th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am -
[Virtual Series] Digital Public Infrastructural Possibilities
October 20th, 2020 - 9:00 am to 10:30 am -
Race, Technology and Civil Society: Foundations + Intersections
October 9th, 2020 - 9:30 am to 11:00 am - How is racial bias coded into technological systems? Can technology...
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
September 21st, 2020 - 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their...
[Virtual Event] #RaceTechCS Twitter Chat
July 9th, 2020 - 11:00 am to 12:30 pm - How are technologies being used to surveil BIPOC communities and...
[Virtual Event] Protecting the Black Vote during COVID-19
June 24th, 2020 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am - COVID-19 promises to have a significant impact on the 2020...
[Virtual Event] Legitimizing True Safety
June 3rd, 2020 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am - In 2016, the Detroit Police Department rolled out a real-time...
Barbara van Schewick – Net Neutrality: The Battle to Keep the Internet Open and Free
March 3rd, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - It’s easy to take for granted that we get to...