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Jillian C. York
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Upcoming talks
●10/28-11/1: Bread and Net (Beirut)
●11/9: MozFest (Barcelona)
Past talks
2025
●6/3-4: AOIR Flashpoint Symposium (Bremen)
●5/26-28: re:publica (Berlin)
●3/31: Woodhull Freedom Foundation (virtual)
●3/20: EFFecting Change panel (virtual)
●2/27: RightsCon (Taipei)
2024
●11/28: IGF Bosnia & Herzegovnia (Sarajevo)
●10/15: Keynote: EPALE Community Conference (Bologna)
●11/9 Keynote, Next Mannheim (Mannheim)
●9/5: ars electronica: Is breaking up Big Tech enough? (Linz)
●6/4: Bread & Net (Virtual)
●6/3: AI in Times of War: Gaza, Automated Warfare, Surveillance, and the Battle of Narratives, Palestine Digital Activism Forum (Virtual)
●5/28: re:publica (Berlin)
●2/19: Cinema for Peace World Forum (Berlin)
2023
●9/15: TaiwanPlus, with Audrey Tang (virtual)
●8/29: Something Digital, keynote (Brisbane, Australia)
●3/30: Uguisu Ribbon Campaign (virtual)
2022
●11/14-16: Bristol Festival of Economics (Bristol, UK)
●11/15-17: Bread and Net, Silicon Values book talk (Beirut)
●10/29-30: Brainwash Festival (Amsterdam)
●10/1: Bits and Baüme (Berlin)
●9/29: Offline Repression is Replicated Online: Content Moderation and Government Repression, First Amendment Museum (Virtual)
●8/27-30: European Forum Alpbach (Austria)
●6/30: Fusion Festival (Germany)
●6/28: Mozilla panel on Digital Authoritarianism (Virtual)
●5/17: Fortress Tech (Virtual)
●6/2-4: POINT (Sarajevo)
●6/8-10: re-publica (Berlin) – panel discussion, Digital Rights and Colonialism (video), conversation, Hey Google! In Conversation with Kent Walker (video)
●6/9: RightsCon (Virtual)
2021
●12/12: Internet Governance Forum
●11/24: Bread & Net, A Global Reimagining of the Santa Clara Principles
●10/11: Heinrich Boell Foundation talk on Alaa Abd El Fattah’s book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
●10/10: Globalt Fokus – Internet for All, by All
●10/25: PLI, Online Platforms and Popular Technologies 2021: Legal and Regulatory Responses to Technology Challenges
●10/19-20: Something Digital (virtual)
●10/8: Toronto Public Library (book talk, virtual)
●10/7: Truth and Trust Online 2021 (virtual)
●9/30-10/3: DIG Awards 2021 (Modena, Italy)
●9/23: 9pm CEST PrivSec Global (virtual)
●9/10-11: Ars Electronica (Linz)
●8/13-15: International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, Hamburg – Future of Code Politics
●7/20: CIHR Sommerfest
●7/15, 12-2 CEST: Hans Bredow Institut, “Using Courts to Effect Change: Can We (Pre)Judge the Future?”
●6/26: Code NL-D Symposium: Reclaiming Digital Agency
●6/10, 3pm ET: Revisions Festival
●6/7-10: RightsCon
●5/21: re:publica Berlin
●5/13, 18:00-18:45 BST: Bristol Ideas (video)
●5/7, 2:40 PST: PBS Crosscut Festival
●5/4, 11:15 CEST: Internet Week Denmark (Virtual keynote)
●4/18: The Ethics of Verification (Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab)
●4/22: 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)
Opening rally of transmediale 2018.
Photo: Adam Berry, transmediale, CC BY-SA 4.0
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)
●7/7: FutureFest (London)
●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)
re:publica XII. Photo by Wolf Brüning. CC BY 2.0.
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)
Photo: Anja Pietsch/re:publica. CC BY 2.0.
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)
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