Upcoming
October 19, 2022: Brisbane, Australia
AM: Writing for Broad Audiences Workshop
PM: Keynote lecture, “Automation, Wellbeing and Harms In the Age of COVID”
October 24, 2022: Melbourne, Australia
Centre for Automated Decision Making and Society, Keynote, “Policing Insecurity: Debt, Fraud, Data, and the Automated Welfare State”
February 2, 2023: Wichita, Kansas
Newman University Keynote lecture
Photo: Hana van der Kolk
Past Events
Wednesday January 17, 2018: New York City
Data & Society, 4-5 PM, with book reception and signing to follow
In conversation with Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA and Body and Soul and Julia Angwin, Senior Reporter, Pro Publica and author of Dragnet Nation
36 West 20th Street, NYC, NY
Video available here: https://datasociety.net/events/databite-no-106-automating-inequality-virginia-eubanks-in-conversation-with-alondra-nelson-and-julia-angwin/
Wednesday January 24, 2018: Washington, DC
“Dismantling the Digital Poorhouse”
In conversation with Rose Afriyie, co-founder of mRelief, Cheri Honkala, co-founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Mariella Saba, of the Stop LAPD Coalition, Familia:Trans Queer Liberation Movement, and the Our Data Bodies project. Journalist Monica Potts will moderate.
New America, 4-5:30 PM, with book reception and signing to follow
740 15th Street NW #900, Washington, DC
Thursday January 25, 2018: Baltimore, MD
Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, 7:30 PM
30 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD
Friday, January 26, 2018: Oakland, CA
“Power, Not Paranoia: From Digital Surveillance to Digital Security,” 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
In conversation with Malkia Cyril, Founder and Exec Director of the Center for Media Justice and Tunisia Owens, Policy Manager of the Ella Baker Center
1330 Broadway, Suite 300, Oakland , CA
Friday February 2, 2018: Bloomington, IN
Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Data Science Invited Talks Series, 1:30 PM
Lindley Hall, 150 S Woodlawn Ave, Bloomington, IN
Monday February 5, 2018: Milwaukee
Milwaukee Public Library, cosponsored by Boswell Book Company
Richard E. and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room
814 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53203
Tuesday February 6, 2018: Chicago, IL
City Lit Books, 6:30 PM
In conversation with Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and author, How to Save Your Constitutional Democracy
2523 N. Kedzie Blvd. Chicago, IL
Thursday February 8, 2018: Madison, WI
LaFollette School of Public Affairs and the Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison
Friday February 9, 2018: Minneapolis, MN
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 7 PM
In conversation with Joe Soss, author of Disciplining the Poor and Remaking America
3038 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Thursday, March 8, 2018: Washington, DC
Aspen Institute Summit on Inequality & Opportunity
In conversation with Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA and Body and Soul
The Arena Stage, 1101 6th St SW, Washington, DC
See video of this conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLI2EQNi-Y&feature=youtu.be&t=7962
Thursday March 15: NYC, NY
Power Not Paranoia: Surveillance, Sousveillance, and Protecting our Communities
Sponsored by WITNESS, The Center for Media Justice, and Wellstone Action, a conversation on 21st century policing, immigration enforcement, their impact on our community, and what we can to do protect ourselves. With:
- Kei Williams – Movement NetLab // Organizer-In-Residency at Civic Hall
- Sarah Aoun – Co-Founder of Tandem
- Bina Ahmad – Public Defender at The Legal Aid Society
- Luba Cortes – Rapid Response Coordinator at Make the Road New York
For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-not-paranoia-tickets-43420094672
Matter, 41 Union Sq West Suite 320, New York City, NY 10003
Friday, March 23, 2018: Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store, 3:00 PM
In conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of the book Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Co-sponsored by Digital HKS and MIT’s Center for Civic Media
1256 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 28, 2018: NYC, NY
Mid-Manhattan Public Library, 6:30 PM
In conversation with Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), author of The Book of Ice
Co-sponsored by New America NYC
42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Program Room
Thursday, March 29, 2018: Princeton, NJ
Labyrinth Books
In conversation with Kathryn Edin, author of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ
Saturday, March 31: Troy, NY
Market Block Books, 11 AM – 1 PM
290 River Street, Troy, NY 12180
Wednesday, April 4, 2018: Lexington, KY
University of Kentucky, College of Communication and Information
Kincaid Auditorium (B&E 111), 12 PM
Saturday, April 7, 2018: Tulsa, OK
Magic City Books/Booksmart Tulsa, 2 PM
221 E. Archer St, Tulsa
Tuesday, April 10 2018: Dallas, TX
The Wild Detectives, 7:30 – 9:00 PM
314 W. 8th Street, Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX
Monday, April 16, 2018: New Orleans, LA
Octavia Books, 6 PM
513 Octavia Street (corner of Laurel), New Orleans, LA
Wednesday April 18, 2018: Atlanta, GA
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (in partnership with A Cappella Books)
441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Thursday April 19, 2018: Greensboro, NC
Scuppernog Books, 7 PM
304 S Elm St, Greensboro, NC
Saturday April 21: New York City
New York Live Ideas Festival, “Has Democracy Been Hacked?,” 5:30 – 7 PM
With Gabriel Stricker, Noam Cohen, Meredith Whittaker and moderator Bianca Bosker
New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Tuesday May 1, 2018: San Francisco, CA
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations National Conference, 3:40 PM
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Wednesday, May 2: La Jolla, CA
UCSD Design Lab, 4:00 PM
CSE 1202 on the UCSD campus
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Monday, May 14: San Francisco, CA
Green Arcade Books, 7:00 PM
With Jennifer Friedenbach, hosted by Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
1680 Market Street, San Francisco
Tuesday, May 15: Oakland, CA
Laurel Books, 6:30 PM
Hosted by Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Thursday, May 24: Cleveland, OH
City Club of Cleveland, 12 PM
850 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114
Tuesday, May 29: Paris, France
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 3:45 PM
“Universal Digital Rights and Digital Inclusion” with Rand Hindi, Julia Hobsbawm, Philip J. Jennings, and Rebecca MacKinnon.
Friday, June 8: Saratoga Springs, NY
MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute, 3 PM
“Protection and Accountability Workshop” with Tamika Lewis
Tang Teaching Museum, 815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Thursday, June 28: Kansas City, MO
Support Kansas City’s Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Awards, 4 PM
Arrupe Hall, Rockhurst University, 5351 Forest Avenue, Kansas City, Mo
Saturday, June 30: Aspen, CO
Aspen Ideas Festival, 12:30 PM
“Bias in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence,” with Jason Pontin and Surya Mattu
Wednesday, July 11: NYC, NY
ThoughtWorks Book Event, 7 PM
99 Madison Ave, 15th Floor · New York, NY
Thursday, July 12: NYC, NY
Convergence: The Future of Policing, 7 PM
With Naomi Murakawa, political scientist and author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
CAVEAT , 21 A Clinton Street, New York, NY 10002
Tuesday, July 17: NYC, NY
“Automating Inequality in Child Welfare using Predictive Analytics,” 9 AM
Child Welfare Organizing Project with Anthony White (Deputy Commissioner ACS), Luke Gerber (Action Research Partners), Richard Wexler (Natl Coalition for Child Protection Reform), and Martha Raimon (Ctr for the Study of Social Change)
Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
Friday, July 20: Topeka, KS
Kansas Assoc of Community Action Programs, Kansas Conference on Poverty, 12 PM
Capitol Plaza Hotel, Topeka, KS
Monday July 30: LISTEN UP! Speaker Series (virtual event)
12 PM – 1 PM Pacific/3 PM – 4 PM Eastern Daylight
For more info and tickets: https://listenup.tech/talks/virginia-eubanks
A project of Ragtag, the Listen Up invites speakers from outside the industry to speak to tech professionals about the social justice implications of their work.
Wednesday, August 22: Palo Alto, CA
AI in Medicine: Inclusion & Equity (AiMIE)
CEMEX Auditorium, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
Thursday, August 23: San Francisco, CA
TechEquity Collective Book Club
September 4-17, 2018: WELL Inkwell Conference (virtual event)
A public (free!) conversation on the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (WELL), moderated by Ari Davidow.
Thursday, September 6, 2018: College Park, MD
Achieving the Dream, Inc. Data and Analytics Summit, 3:45 PM
The Hotel at University of Maryland College Park,
Thursday Sept 20, 2018: Seattle, WA
Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) Annual Conference, “Equity by Design,” 9 AM
Bell Harbor International Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle
Friday Sept 21, 2018: Seattle, WA
West Coast Poverty Center Poverty Summit
University of Washington
Tuesday Sept 25: Nashville, TN
API Strategy and Practice Conference, 4:40 PM
Music City Center
Thursday, Sept 27: Detroit, MI
No Computer, No Assistance? Is Michigan Turning Off the Lights on the Poor?, 5:00 PM
Bethel Community Transformation Center
Monday, October 1: Virtual Roundtable
Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy & Practice for Civil Society
with Lucy Bernholz, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab, Rashida Richardson of AI Now Institute, and Di Luong of Media Mobilizing Project.
Tuesday, October 2: Albany, NY
Albany Public Library, 11:30 AM
Friday, October 5: Urbana, IL
Humanities and the Arts in the Age of Big Data conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, October 11: Honolulu, Hawai’i
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC) Conference
Tuesday, October 16: NYC, NY
AI Now Institute 2018 Symposium: Austerity, Inequality, and Automation
Appeared with Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Vincent Southerland, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU
Thursday, October 18: Milton, MA
Confronting Inequality Conference: Intellectual Freedom & Social Responsibilities Cmte of the Massachusetts Library Association
Appeared with Chuck Collins, author of Born on Third Base, and Roopika Risam, co-creator of Torn Apart/Separados.
Friday, October 19: Albany, NY
New York State Writer’s Institute and The University Club of Albany, 7 PM
Tuesday, Oct 23: Cambridge, MA
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, 12 PM
Documentation and video of the talk available here
Friday, October 26: Ithaca, NY
Cornell University, Center for the Study of Inequality (Co-sponsored by the School of Information Science)
Monday, October 29: Sydney, Australia (Virtual event)
ACOSS “Rise to the Challenge” National Conference, 10:55 AM
SMC Conference and Function Centre, 66 Goulburn St.
Friday, November 2: San Francisco, CA
Open Data Science Conference West
Thursday, November 8: Amherst, MA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst FUTURES Series
Thursday, November 15: Linthicum Heights, MD
Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition’s Economic Summit and Consumer Celebration
Saturday, November 17: Munich, Germany
“Digitalization, Culture, and Ethics,” Launch of the Bavarian Institute of Digital Transformation
Thursday, November 22: Helsinki, Finland
Nordic Social Work Conference: Power and Social Work
Thursday, November 29: Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley School of Information and the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group (AFOG) Video available: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2018/automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-poor
Thursday, November 29: Berkeley, CA
Master Class: “Bringing Academic Rigor to Longform Journalism”
UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society
Friday, November 30: San Francisco, CA
A conversation with Virginia Eubanks, sponsored by San Francisco Human Rights Commission, TechSoup Global, and the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS.
Thursday, December 13: Roosevelt Island, NYC, NY
What Counts? Stories of Race, Tech, and the Planet, sponsored by WordToRI, Cornell Tech, and organized by J. Khadijah Abduhrahman
Wednesday, January 8, 2019: New Orleans, LA
Innovations in Technology Conference (Legal Services Corporation)
JW Marriott, 614 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA
Wednesday, January 16, 2019: Ultrecht, Netherlands
Privacyrede, TivoliVredenburg, 8 PM
Thursday, January 17: The Hague, Netherlands
“Automating Inequality” Hoorzitting (Special Hearing), Dutch House of Representatives
Friday, January 18: Tilburg, Netherlands
Expert Meeting at University of Tilburg with Fontys school of Journalism, Design Academy, and MindLabs
Tuesday, February 5: New Paltz, NY
Without Limits: Interdisciplinary Conversations in the Liberal Arts, 5-7:30 PM
Wednesday, February 6: Clinton, NY
Hamilton College, 4:10 PM
Taylor Science Center, Kennedy Auditorium
Thursday, February 7: Schenectady, NY
Congregation Gates of Heaven, 7 PM
Friday, February 8: Albany, NY
Poverty, Privacy, and Politics: In Conversation with Khiara Bridges, author of The Poverty of Privacy Rights, 1:30 PM
Rockefeller College, University at Albany, Milne 215
Monday, February 11: Bloomington, IN
Ethics in the Information Age, 3 PM
Bloomington Campus, Faculty conference room, Maurer Law School
Tuesday, February 12: Notre Dame, IN
Ethics Week, 4:30 PM
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, February 13: West Lafayette, IN
Critical Data Studies Distinguished Lecture Series, 4:30 PM
Fowler Hall, Student Center
Wednesday, February 20: Providence, RI
Algorithmic Justice: Race, Bias, and Big Data, 5-7 PM
IBES 130 (Carmichael Auditorium), 85 Waterman St.
Tuesday, March 12: Toronto, ON
Ethics of AI in Context, 4-6 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 200 Larkin
Friday, March 15: Auckland, New Zealand
Automating Inequality book launch, GridAKL
Monday March 18: Wellington, New Zealand
“Are we automating inequality in Aotearoa?” with tech ethicist Tim Dare and Tohatoha executive director, Mandy Henk
Wednesday, March 20: Melbourne, Australia
“Automating Inequality,” hosted by the Australian Unemployed Workers Union
Friday, March 22: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
“From Digital Data to Decisions to … : A Symposium with Virginia Eubanks,” Centre for Policy Futures
Friday, April 5: Irvine, CA
Reinhardt-Ripston Lecture,University of California-Irvine, School of Law
Friday, April 12: Princeton, NJ
Center for Information Technology Policy/United Nations Conference – Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age
Tuesday, April 16: Little Rock, Arkansas
Medicaid Conference (with Arkansas Legal Aid, the Urban League of Arkansas, Advocates for Children and Families, and Philander Smith College’s Social Justice Institute)
Thursday, April 25: Northfield, MN
“Does Artificial Intelligence Exacerbate Social Inequalities?,” Carleton College Humanities Center
Thursday, May 2: Bronx, NY
A conversation with Virginia Eubanks, Fordham University Rose Hill Campus (with Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law professor and director of the McGannon Center, Joyce McMillan, child welfare advocate, and Professor Lauri Goldkind of the Graduate School of Social Service).
Friday, May 3: Fordham Law School, Manhattan, NY
McGannon Awards Ceremony and Community Conversation (with award-winning author Cathy O’Neil, Special Counsel at the Bronx Defenders Scott Levy, and Ifeoma Ajunwa of Cornell).
Thursday, May 23: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Data Justice Week Keynote (sponsored by the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at University of Edinburgh).
Friday, May 31: Newcastle University, UK
“Automating Inequality,” Institute of Health and Society
Wednesday, June 26: Troy, NY
Troy Public Library Community Event
Friday, June 28, 2019: Manhattan, NY
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference
10:15 AM: Author-Meets-Critics Session with Jenny Andersson (Sciences Po, CNRS), Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley), Mikell Hyman (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), and Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh).
5:30 PM: “Automating Inequality,” Tishman Auditorium
Thursday, August 22: Evansville, IL
Speak! An Explorative Lecture Series, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
October 16-17: Kingston, ON
Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University
October 23-25: Minneapolis, MN
Winton Chair Cornerstone Event Series, University of Minnesota
** Keynote Talk
** “All Hail the Algoritm” screening at the East Side Freedom Library
** “Writing for Impact” writing workshop for students, faculty, and staff
Thursday, November 14: Lexington, VA
Mudd Center for Ethics Series, Washington and Lee University
December 5-6: Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia
February 1, 2020: Philadelphia, PA
Villanova University Women in Tech Conference Keynote
February 13: Richmond, VA
Jepson Leadership Forum Keynote, Part of Series on “Digital Dystopias: Truth and Representation in the Internet Age”
February 20: Poughkeepsie, NY
Vassar College, Gender Inclusivity in STEM
February 25: Albany, NY
Anderson Seminar on Surveillance Technology, Albany Law School Government Law Center. Panel discussion with Ángel Díaz (counsel, Liberty & National Security Program , Brennan Center) and Robert Heverly (Albany Law School).
July 23, 2020: Zoom Book Club
Rockefeller Reads Book Club, 7 PM EDT. To join, register here: https://bit.ly/38dPrlI
September 27, 2020: On Twitter
#AIEthics Bookchat, 2 PM EDT, To join, follow #AIEthics and #TwitterBookChat
October 1, 2020: State College, PA
Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics, Penn State (originally scheduled for April 2)
November 29, 2020: Online via iCahn School of Medicine
Medical Student Social Justice Course at Mount Sinai
January 28, 2021: Online via Western University of Ontario
Big Data at the Margins, “Digital Care and Cruelty”
February 15, 2021: Online
ATD 4th World, “Behind the Screen: Grassroots Experiences Accessing Social Services and Education in a Digital World,” Convener and Facilitator.
April 28, 2021: Online via OCAD University
Digging Deeper, “The Metric Society and the Unmeasurable”
September 8, 2021: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Automating Inequality in the 2020-2022 Cardinal Reads selection for North Idaho College. This event celebrated the community engaging the book.
October 27, 2021: Ateneu del Raval, Barcelona, Spain
Meeting with activists
October 28, 2021: Canòdrom, Barcelona, Spain
L’automatizació de la desigualtat | Conversa amb amb Virginia Eubanks
January 14, 2022: Online via University of Eastern Finland
In/Equalities in Digitalized Society – Symposium on digitalization and welfare services
February 15, 2022: Online via the Helsinki Inequality Initiative
INEQ Conversations, “Globalizing the Algorithmic Turn”
April 27, 2022: Online via the Drug Policy Alliance
“Drug war dragnet: surveillance, criminalization & freedom from the drug War,” Keynote with Dr. Dorothy Roberts and Kassandra Frederique.