Invited Lectures
10/2022 Presentation on “Counter-hegemonic Regimes of Prediction” for the Research Dialogues series at the London School of Economics Research Dialogues Series in England, UK.
10/2022 Presentation on “Digital Rights and Climate Justice” at the Climate Justice workshop or-ganised by the Global Data Justice Project at Tilburg University, Netherlands (virtual).
09/2022 Presentation on “Feminist Security & Prediction” for Big Data & Society journal’s webinar series on ‘data securities’ (virtual).
05/2022 Respondent at book launch of “Concealing for Freedom” (Virtual/Sciences Po, Paris). 03/2021 Presentation: “Anticipatory security practices” for the Critical Security reading group at Royal Holloway (virtual).
06/2021 Guest Lecturer: “Software Ethnography Methods” in the ‘Early Language Development in the Digital Age’ course at the University of Amsterdam
02/2021 Panel: “Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence for Peace” at the 2021 digitainable forum on “Mindful use of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (D&AI) for the SDGs”. University of Bonn, Germany. (Virtual).
01/2021 Panel: “How recommendation algorithms rule our (media) worlds and what we can do about them”. Fullbright Poland (Virtual).
01/2020 Guest lecture: ‘Tackling Surveillance’ for the ‘Privacy in Public: Big Data, Self Tracking, Social Networks’ class. University of Amsterdam. (Virtual).
01/2020 Panel: Kick off event: Global Digital Cultures. Panel on Security & Citizenship. University of Amsterdam (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
11/2019 ‘Brown bag’ presentation: “What harms may come: Anticipatory resistance in the age of datafication”. AI Now Institute. New York,NY, USA.
02/2019 Presentation: “On agency and futurism: Notes from research into the politics of data”, in response to Jamie Susskind’s new book “Future Politics”. Spui25, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
01/2019 Presentation: “Data for Social Good: Towards a data activist research agenda”. Good Data book launch, Spui25, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
10/2017 Presentation: “Threat information sharing: emerging practices within civil society”. Hack Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
04/2017 Presentation: “Calculating & countering surveillance risks in an environment of ubiquitous sensing”. Sensor Publics workshop, TU Munich, Germany.
04/2017 Presentation: “Reasoning through risks to privacy and security”. Workshop on Human Rights in the Digital Age. Queens College, Cambridge, UK.
09/2016 Presentation: “Staying in the game: digital security, risk & responsibilisation in human rights work”. Workshop on Authoritarianism in a Global Age. University of Amsterdam.
06/2016 Guest lecture: “Privacy vs. Security?” Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam.
10/2015 Invited workshop: “Ethics and Digital Security”. Connected Development Festival, the Hague, Netherlands.
10/2015 Panel: “We can do it”: Gender, activism, and technology. Goldsmiths College, London, UK.
06/2015 Presentation: “Understanding the relevance of Snowden leaks for human rights defenders”. Surveillance and Citizenship Conference. Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
05/2015 Panel: “Next up on the political agenda: cybersecurity”. Re:publica, Berlin, Germany.
03/2015 Presentation: “Surveillance and Human Rights”. European Network for Conflict Research. Bonn, Germany.
02/2015 Roundtable: “Human rights in the digital age”. Goldsmiths College, London, UK.
09/2014 Panel: “Threats of communications surveillance”. EU Guidelines for Human Rights Defenders. Reporters Without Borders, Berlin, Germany.
06/2014 Presentation: “Digital security as protection practice?” Protection Roundtable, University of York Centre for Applied Human rights protection. University of York, UK.
06/2013 Panel: “Disaster resilience after Hurricane Sandy”. Personal Democracy Forum 2013, New York, New York.
Conference Presentations
06/2022 Presenter/organizer Rightscon panel: ‘Intersections of digital rights & climate justice’.
03/2022 Workshop facilitator at Mozfest: ‘Intersections of digital rights & climate justice’.
08/2020 “The every-day interruption of data-driven logics”. 4S/EASST conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
06/2020 “Anticipatory Resistance”. Surveillance and Society Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
05/2020 “Preemptive Cycles and how to Brake Them”. Data Justice: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society. Cardiff University, Wales. (Postponed due to COVID-19).
04/2020 “Anticipating future(s): Findings from a four year study into practices & infrastructures to counter shifting digital threats”. Internet Freedom Festival, Valencia, Spain. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
09/2019 “Infrastructures of Anticipation” at Data Power in Bremen, Germany.
09/2019 “Emergent structures of resistance”. Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), New Orleans, USA.
06/2018 “Fragmentation as Strategy of Resistance to Surveillance”. Surveillance Studies Network Conference, Aarhus University, Denmark.
05/2018 “It depends on your threat model: understanding strategies for uncertainty amidst digital surveillance and data exploitation”. Data Justice Conference, Cardiff University, Wales.
01/2018 Panel: “Beyond data protection”. CPDP 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
09/2017 “Cybersecurity: Translations in practice”. Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), Boston, USA.
09/2016 “Big Data Meet Grassroots Activism”: fishbowl discussion at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AOIR), Berlin, Germany.
04/2016 “Instrumentalising risk to conduct & resist surveillance”. Surveillance Studies Network Conference, Barcelona.
07/2015 “Research ethics in the study of security practices”. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Philadelphia, USA.
03/2015 “Security in Context”. Rightscon, Manila, Philippines.
05/2014 “Paths towards autonomy”. Re:Publica 2014, Berlin, Germany.
05/2014 “Data in International Development: How even the best of intentions can pave the road to surveillance” with Zara Rahman. Re:Publica 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Teaching & workshop facilitation
2021-2023 Workshop facilitator with The Engine Room on topics of climate justice and digital rights, convening practitioners working on these topics in Community Calls and other interactive formats.
2017-2020 Ethics advisor, Security & Engineering Masters Program, University of Amsterdam. Vetting and advising masters student engineering projects on issues related to security, data protection, ethics, governance, and responsible disclosure.
2016-2018 Junior Lecturer, Data Science Masters program, University of Amsterdam. Developed new curriculum for course module on ethics & social dimensions of data as part of new masters program on data science. Taught 4-session module in 2016-17 & 8-session module in 2017-18.
2013-2015 Workshop facilitator and digital security trainer, Tactical Technology Collective. Working on a full-time basis with human rights defenders across 12 different countries on practical cybersecurity and digital literacy.