Latest Past Events

Queer & “Here”

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York

Queer & "Here" From hookup apps to investigative reporting, community-building to historical archiving, the Internet has transformed queer experience and visibility. What have these changes wrought? What gains? What losses? In a free-wheeling and frank conversation, Zach Stafford, editor-in-chief of the U.S.’s oldest LGBTQ news magazine, The Advocate, and Jack Halberstam, queer scholar and professor

Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York

This panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does

Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times

Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford

New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot, the Times’s site about politics, economics, and everyday life.   RSVP is requested but not required.