Presentations and talks

Nani has given expert presentations and talks at a variety of national and international forums on freedom of expression, digital rights, and strategic litigation.

Selected presentations

• • Harnessing the Law for Climate Justice, keynote at Environmental Funders Network retreat, June 2023
  • State of the Internet Lecture 2022: “Operation Reboot” –– What does building an intersectional feminist internet look like?, annual “Staat van het Internet” lecture at Waag, March 2022
  • Shedding Light on Social, Racial, and Economic Injustice (video), fireside chat with Aspen Institute Germany, November 2021
  • Digital Rights: Developments at Home and Abroad (video), conversation with Aswini Weereratne QC and Tetevi Davi of the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association, June 2021
  • Strengthening Human Rights in the Digital Age (video),  Ashoka panel conversation with Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Julia Kloiber, April 2021
  • Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights (video), presentation on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on marginalised groups in European Parliament webinar organised by Renew Europe, April 2021
  • Beyond The Social Dilemma: taking action on Big tech, panel conversation with director Jeff Orlowski and AC Coppens at CPH:DOX, April 2021
  • Intelligence Squared debate: “We must stop big data’s pandemic power grab” (audio), debate organised in partnership with ECFR with Rowena Luk, moderated by Ulrike Franke, April 2021
  • The Great Facilitator: Free Speech and Power, Online and Off, keynote at the occasion of receiving the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Award, February 2021
  • Connecting the dots: privacy, data and racial justice (video), panel conversation with Seda Gürses, Sarah Chander, Nakeema Stefflbauer, Yasmine Boudiaf and Seeta Peña Gangadharan at CPDP conference, January 2021
  • Online gendered hate speech (video), panel conversation with Sylvana Simons, Nawal Mustafa and Nadine Ridder at Pakhuis de Zwijger, October 2020 (in Dutch)
  • Ensuring Human Rights for All in the Digital Age (video), (text as published in Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights), Annual SIM Peter Baehr lecture, October 2020
  • Decolonising digital rights. Why it matters and where do we start?, keynote at the 2020 Anthropology + Technology Conference, October 2020
  • Lilith Talks Corona Verzet: hoe bouw je een rechtvaardigere wereld na deze crisis? Privacy, online conversation with Clarice Cargard and Marietje Schaake, April 2020 (in Dutch)
  • The discriminatory impact of the use of AI: an intersectional perspective, presentation at Doughty Street Chambers’ International Women’s Day celebration, March 2020
    
  • Cybersecurity and Human Rights, presentation at side event to the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council, February 2020
  • “Is AI sexist?”, panel at French Embassy in Berlin, February 2020
  • Making Accountability Real: Strategic Litigation (video), (text), keynote at the ACM FAT* 2020 conference in Barcelona on how to make fairness, accountability and transparency a reality through strategic litigation, January 2020
  • An Inclusive Digital Age, lecture at the Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam on the interplay between technology, human rights, and inequality, October 2019
  • On Intersectionality (audio), Nani addresses the importance of taking an intersectional approach in the justice system on a panel with Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Gloria Wekker and Domenica Ghidei, June 2019
  • Godwin Lecture, Nani discusses human rights in the digital age and strategic litigation in honour of Liberation Day, May 2019 (in Dutch — English translation here)
  • Lawyers Tour (video), Nani is interviewed about human rights, algorithms and privacy for the Dutch bar training, April 2019 (in Dutch)
  • Technology and the next frontier in human rights (video), Nani speaks at Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance about how to ensure that our digital society is inclusive and equipped to deal with the future challenges of technology, April 2018
  • Radio Rechtsstaat (audio), Nani speaks about digital rights in the Dutch Radio Rechtsstaat podcast (in Dutch)
  • Free Press Live 2017 (video), Nani is interviewed about her work at Free Press Live 2017, November 2017
  • The International State of Digital Rights, a Conversation with a UN Special Rapporteur (video), interview with David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, April 2016, (audio also available)
  • “Rights are rights, online and offline”, keynote speech Internet Freedom Forum, Abuja, March 2016
  • “Free and pluralist public debate, a precondition for democracy; how to create an enabling environment?”, opening panel Council of Europe freedom of expression conference, Strasbourg, October 2015
  • Lost in the web: how to navigate the legal maze and protect speech online (video), re:publica, Berlin, May 2015
  • The open internet is everybody’s business (video), Opening presentation at Global Voices summit, Cebu, January 2015.
  • “Two years without YouTube: the legal battle to unblock the world’s 3rd most popular website in Pakistan”, ORGCon, London, November 2014
  • “When the war on terror puts journalists behind bars”, International Press Institute World Congress, Cape Town, April 2014