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Keynote Lecture: We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
March 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
| Location: | 2220-2228 Richcraft Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
Wendy H. Wong is Professor of Political Science and Principal’s Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. She works on issues of human rights, technology, and global governance. Wong is the author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT, 2023), which won the 2024 Balsillie Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize. She is regularly featured on CBC, The Globe and Mail, and other media outlets commenting on issues of data, AI, and society. In 2024, she was named Researcher of the Year at UBC’s Okanagan campus. She has written two other award-winning books published by Cornell University Press, Internal Affairs (2012) and The Authority Trap (2017) on the work of nongovernmental organizations in international relations. From 2008-2024, she worked at the University of Toronto, where she was most recently Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society, Professor of Political Science, and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Wong was born and raised in sunny Los Angeles and is still adjusting to Canadian winters.