Events
The following is a list of events from Digital Civil Society Lab. View all events from Stanford PACS.
Past Events
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jen Schradie – The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
February 25th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - The internet has been hailed as a leveling force that...
Book Talk | Meaningful Inefficiencies
February 21st, 2020 - 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life—from governing...
Victoria Baines – Rethinking Citizen Engagement in Cybersecurity
February 11th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - Cybersecurity professionals are trained to counter threats and vulnerabilities in...
Catherine Sandoval – Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift: The Hacker Paradigm Obscures Risks of Net Neutrality Repeal
February 4th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - Professor Sandoval unmasks the “hacker paradigm” that pervades cybersecurity analysis...
Race and Digital Civil Society Lightning Talks & Lunch
January 27th, 2020 - 10:45 am to 1:30 pm - Bias in government automated decision systems, the future of farmwork,...
+1 Speaker Series – Abbie van Sickle
January 21st, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - The Comm230X +1 Speaker Series highlights evolving perspectives at the...
Allen Gunn – Another Cloud is Possible: Rethinking Information Infrastructure for Civil Society
January 14th, 2020 - 6:00 pm to 7:20 pm - As civil society organizations become evermore dependent on digital technologies,...
Consuelo Amat and Natalie Cadranel – Working with History’s Avengers at the Nexus of Academia and Grassroots Technology
November 19th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - How do the worlds of academic research, product development and...
Creating a Just Technological Future
November 13th, 2019 - 11:30 am to 1:00 pm - POSTPONED Due to unavoidable circumstances, this talk has been postponed....
Jay Hamilton – What is Computational Journalism? How Could it Better Support Democracy?
November 5th, 2019 - 6:00 pm - Prof. Jay Hamilton discusses his work at the Stanford Computational...
Digital Civil Society Conference
October 31 - November 1st, 2019 - 9:30 am to 5:00 pm - We depend on digital infrastructure, online information ecosystems, and networked...