Freedom of expression and human rights seminar

The director for international freedom of expression at the Washington-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a rights organisation working on technology, will run a seminar at the EUI on 12 December.

Jillian C York, formerly based at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will be speaking about government control of the internet and how different actors are fighting censorship. The seminar will concentrate on the Middle East and North Africa, York’s focus area.

The event is organised by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. More details can be found here: http://cmpf.eui.eu/seminars/online-freespeech.aspx