Berkman@10 Events

Born Digital (Cambridge Book Talk & Reception)

ashar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:25:37 -0500

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 7:00 PM, to be followed by a cocktail reception.
Austin North Classroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School (Map)

Civic Engagement and the Youth Vote in the 2008 Elections

ashar — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 -0400

The Berkman Center co-hosted a Forum event with the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on May 14 at 6:00PM. The Forum focused on Youth, Politics, and Civic Engagement in the 2008 election year.

Watch the video here.

Speakers/panelists included:

Berkman Book Release: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It (Cambridge, MA)

ashar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 -0400

Jonathan Zittrain will speak about his new book, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It.
A reception will follow the talk.

About the Book

New York City Berkman Book Release: The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

ashar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:35:39 -0500

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Susan Crawford, Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, Jeffrey Cunard and Bruce Keller, partners at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and Big Think will join for a discussion featuring Professor Jonathan Zittrain previewing his book "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It".

Building the Change Congress Movement

ashar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:16:53 -0500

10 years into the Berkman Center and 5 years into Creative Commons, former Berkman Center Faculty Director and current crusader against congressional corruption Lawrence Lessig returned to Cambridge.

Professor Lessig spoke about his new effort: Building the Change Congress Movement. This talk is co-sponsored by Harvard College Free Culture.

From the Change Congress site:

What Women Want: How Candidates and Companies Hurt and Help Themselves with Women Today

ashar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:00:00 -0400

What Women Want: How Candidates and Companies Hurt and Help Themselves with Women Today
So, Britney Spears, America Ferrera and a Soccer Mom walk into a bar...

Whose knowledge is it? UC takes on IP

ashar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:01:00 -0400

This talk was co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Center for Research on Computation and Society, and Science Commons.

What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access?

ashar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:00:00 -0400

Peter Suber will sketch five broad ways in which universities could promote open access (OA) to research literature: launching and filling their own OA repositories, supporting peer-reviewed OA journals, supporting OA monographs from their university presses, fine-tuning their promotion and tenure criteria to support excellent research even in unconventional places, and educating faculty about copyright and OA itself.

Berkman Book Release: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

ashar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:01:55 -0500

The OpenNet Initiative’s new book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, is now on bookshelves, and we invite you to celebrate with us.

Edited by the Principal Investigators of the OpenNet Initiative, Access Denied explores the landscape of censorship-oriented controls on Internet content, from the technology behind it to the policy that supports it and the social implications of it.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

ashar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:00:15 -0500

From Amazon.com: