Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained

Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director

The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable

Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization with Johanna Drucker, UCLA

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio, MIT and Lauren Klein, Emory University

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Anger + Hope – The founding of NPR and lessons for the future of public media

Virtual

RSVP here - Streaming at ohyay.co/s/npr Bill Siemering is a radio visionary. Sixty years ago, Siemering was hired to transform WBFO from a student-run college radio club into a professional station. Because of the experiments in radio that he led at WBFO throughout the 1960s, Siemering was invited to serve on the first board of

Women in Mathematics and Statistics

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories The Columbia-Barnard Mathematics Departments and the Columbia Statistics Department are proud to invite you to our inaugural Women in Mathematics and Statistics (WiMS) presentation Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories. Our speakers will share their STEM journey and how they are making their mark in

Rethinking Crime Reporting

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The crime beat has long been leveraged by American newsrooms to drive traffic, generate revenue, and fulfill the duty of informing the public. While the familiar narrative of perpetrators committing crimes consistently captures the public’s attention, these stories rarely produce the safer communities promised by being better-informed citizens, especially for the individuals and communities historically

Exploring AI Threats to Electoral Integrity

Livestream and SIPA

2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First, more than a quarter of the countries in the world, representing a third of global population, and

Queer Data: Who Counts?

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on "Queer Data". Guyan, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step

Human Rights Reporting: A Focus on Journalism and AI

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Join us for this special panel which will focus on global reporting on human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, within the evolving landscape of AI