Keynotes | re:publica 2018

#rp18-Speaker Richard Gutjahr berichtet über seinen ganz persönlichen Shitstorm

Richard Gutjahr ist als freier Reporter für die ARD unterwegs und moderiert die Spätausgabe der Rundschau im Bayerischen Fernsehen. Vor einiger Zeit aber wurde er selbst zum Gegenstand der Berichterstattung.

#rp18 Speaker Ece Temelkuran about the New Political Ice Age

We’re looking forward to Turkish journalist, bestselling author, and journalist Ece Temelkuran and her reflections on populism.

#rp18-Speaker Peter Frase takes a look at the future of (work) environments

To Peter Frase, the future of work in the context of automatization is not a technological issue, but a political one.

Chelsea Manning auf der #rp18

At #rp18, Geraldine de Bastion (re:publica) and Theresa Züger (MediaConvention) will talk to Chelsea Manning about her new life as a free person, Hannah Arendt, civil disobedience, radical politics and the consequences of an uncontrolled government power.

#rp-18 Speakerin Morehshin Allahyari - "The Politics of Plastic & Iconography"

Morehshin Allahyari, works as a curator and media artist in New York. Allahyari pushes boundaries. Professionally and personally, she oscillates between the Near East and the “West.”

#rp18- Speaker Surya Mattu: Raiders of the Lost Data Ark

Surya Mattu is a data scientist who is well aware how technologies can unlock secrets. We're looking forward to his talk on our #rp18-stage!

#rp18-Speaker Rebecca MacKinnon: Building a sustainable information ecosystem for human rights and democracy

We are excited to welcome our next speaker author, researcher and Internet freedom advocate Rebecca MacKinnon!

#rp18 speaker Egal Weizmann; Photo credit: Paul Stuart for New Scientist

#rp18 Speaker Eyal Weizman: Media Forensics in the Era of Fake

We are thrilled to welcome architect and author Eyal Weizman, whose interdisciplinary agency “Forensic Architecture” helps to document and expose injustice.

Scientist and activist Trebor Scholz; photo credit: Michael Nagle

#rp18 Speaker Trebor Scholz on platform cooperativism and digital labor

In the conference’s “We Can Work It Out” topic, scientist, activist, and re:publica veteran Trebor Scholz will discuss opportunities for making work environments agreeable again, now and in the future.

danah boyd #rp18 and #mcb18 speaker and head of Data & Society research institute in New York; photo credit: private

#rp18 and #MCB18 Opening Keynote Speaker danah boyd: lower-case cerebral long jump

Drum roll for the joint re:publica and MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin opening speaker – danah boyd! She is interested in how a human’s (media-constructed) surroundings change the structural conditions.

#rp18 speaker Orit Halpern; photo credit: private

#rp18 Speaker Orit Halpern: Extreme futures under the technosocial stress test

Orit Halpern is a hypermodern renaissance person. At #rp18, the Professor will be taking us along for the ride as she builds bridges between the history of science, computing and cybernetics.

Freundeskreis Freiheit; credit collage: fertig design

If We’re Talking POP, Then We Need … A Supergroup!!!!!: A courteous rejection and the “Freedom Circle of Friends”

Thanks to the huge amounts of work done by activists, journalists and scientists, the general facts have become clear to a section of the population: The internet is broken.