Technology and Democracy Events


2015-05-12 14:00: Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment (Professor Michael Osborne, Oxford Martin programme on Technology and Employment)

2015-05-15 18:00: "Perilous Times: The View From Inside the NSA" (Professor Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago))

2015-06-22 14:00: "Corporate power in a digital world" (Professor John Naughton, CRASSH)

2015-09-29 17:30: Digital Capitalism:  Stagnation and Contention? (Professor Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2015-10-16 12:30: "The end of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgment" (Nóra ní Loideain, Ross Anderson and John Naughton)

2015-10-28 13:00: Postcapitalism (Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News)

2015-11-09 12:00: Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional Approach (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford)

2016-01-19 13:00: Symposium: "Technological displacement of middle-class employment: political and social implications" (Robert Madelin, Daniel Susskind,Willy Brown, Gerard de Vries)

2016-02-05 09:30: Overseeing the secret state: a symposium on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Conor Gearty, Richard Clayton, Judith Townend, Lorna Woods, Ross Anderson, Ian Walden, Ray Corrigan, David Vincent, Nóra Ní Loideain, Sinead Connolly, David Runciman, Julian Huppert, John Naughton, Adrian Kennard  and others)

2016-04-18 09:30: Why Privacy? A day-long interdisciplinary workshop at CRASSH (Speakers include Christena Nippert-Eng, Barbara Taylor, Josh Cohen, Mary Aiken, Eric King and David Vincent)

2016-04-26 14:00: "Social media and political turbulence" (Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute))

2016-05-03 14:00: Julia Hornle and Findlay Stark: Internet Jurisdiction, Extraterritoriality and Law Enforcement: Unclaimed Territories in the Cloud - where are the Limits to Internet Jurisdiction? (Professor Julia Hornle (QMUL) and Dr Finlay Stark (Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice))

2016-05-24 14:30: "Sacrificing liberty, privacy and data security for cruise control?  Smart Cars, Data Protection and Encryption" (Dr Florent Frederix (Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission))

2016-11-24 17:00: Thomas Rid: "2084: Cryptography, Magic, and Politics" (Professor Thomas Rid (War Studies, King's College London))

2016-12-01 17:00: The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (aka 'The Snooper's Charter') (John Naughton, David Vincent, Julian Huppert, Nóra ní Loideain)

2017-02-23 17:00: POSTPONED | "The Future of the Professions" (Dr Daniel Susskind, Balliol College, Oxford)

2017-03-09 17:00: Charles Arthur: Has the Public Been Well Served by Technology Journalism? (Charles Arthur, Andrew Brown, Carole Cadwalladr and Ingrid Lunden)

2017-03-16 12:00: Characterization of Internet Censorship from Multiple Perspectives (Dr Shehar Bano, University College, London)

2017-03-23 17:00: Social Camouflage: From Face-to-Face to Digital Deception (Professor Christena Nippert-Eng, Indiana University)

2017-03-31 09:30: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World - an international symposium (An international panel of speakers)

2017-05-23 17:00: The WTF Economy (Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc)

2017-05-25 17:00: Humane automation: the political economy of working with -- rather than against -- machines (Professor Frank Pasquale (University of Maryland))

2017-11-24 09:30: Pax Technica: the implications of the Internet of Things (Professor Philip Howard, Oxford Internet Institute)