“Governable Spaces and Democratic Design for Online Life<\/a>,” Talking Politics (virtual: December 11, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Notes on Old Religion for New Network Sovereigns,” Workshop on Spirituality and New Media, Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY: November 16, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What Should Governance Feel Like?” Election Day Watch Party, Talking Politics (virtual: November 5, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life,” Platform Economy Interest Group, Oxford Internet Institute (virtual: November 5, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Critical Thinking in the Digital Age<\/a>,” with Jenny Odell, Humanities New York (Poughkeepsie, NY: October 23, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Cooperative Ecosystems: Transformations in Worker Ownership, Housing, Community Development, and Agriculture<\/a>,” U.S. Department of Agriculture (virtual: October 9, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governance between Earth and Heaven,” Tech & Myth Conference, University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO: October 19, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “O Caminho da Conectividade: Um Horizonte para o Movimento Cooperativo na Era Digital,” World Cooperative Management ’24<\/a> (Belo Horizonte, Brazil: October 15, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life<\/a><\/em>,” Barbed Wire Fence Telephone II Scholar Talk, Media Archaeology Lab (Boulder, CO: September 18, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Book Talk: Governable Spaces<\/em><\/a>” with Lilly Irani, Internet Archive (virtual: August 22, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Who Owns Creative Work?<\/a>” Project Liberty Pop-Up (virtual: August 14, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces” (keynote), ZuVillage Georgia<\/a> (Georgia [remote]: August 9, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Democracy On, Not Just around, the Internet<\/a>,” Human Rights Protocol Considerations<\/a>, Internet Engineering Task Force (Vancouver, Canada: July 24, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech<\/a>,” Edge Esmeralda (Healdsburg, CA: June 24, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, Zebrahood 2024 (Tokyo, Japan [remote]: June 21, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Extending our Shared Futures: A Horizon for the Co-operative Movement in the Digital Age” (keynote), Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation Conference<\/a>, McGill University (Montreal, Canada: June 12, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Right to Associate: An Agenda for a Mutualist Society,” Future of Equity Symposium, Rutgers University (San Jose, CA: June 10, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech<\/a>,” Internet Archive (San Francisco, CA: June 8, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Democracy On, Not Just around, the Internet,” Equitable Tech Summit<\/a>, National Press Club (Washington, DC: June 6, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Designing Against Digital Colonialism<\/a>,” Rehearsals in Conversation<\/em>, University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO: April 15, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life<\/em> Author Livestream<\/a>,” Responsible Tech Author Series, All Tech Is Human (virtual: April 10, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Participant, OSS Growing Pains Workshop, Princeton University (March 21\u201322, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Book Launch\/Meet the Author<\/a>,” Room 520, 140 St. George St., University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada: March 5, 2024),<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Toward Governable Spaces” (keynote), Decentralized Social Media Workshop<\/a>, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ: March 4, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Book Brunch with Nathan Schneider<\/a>,” Prime Produce (New York: NY: March 3, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Tech for Democratic Communities<\/a>” [video<\/a>], Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY: March 2, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Is Social Media Finally Decentralizing?” Web3 Social Mini Summit<\/a>, ETHDenver (Denver, CO: February 28, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: Book Launch Seminar<\/a>” [video<\/a>] Metagovernance Seminar (virtual: February 28, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, Startup Variety Show<\/a><\/em>, University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO: January 25, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Protocols against Nationalisms,” Fire on the Mountain: Media, Religion, and Nationalism; Center for Media, Religion and Culture; University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO: January 10-13, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Democracy on, Not Just around, the Internet,” International Workshop on Recreating Democracy 2023, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA: December 12, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Homesteading on a Superhighway: Online Feudalism, Fractals, and Everyday Politics,” Workshop on Religion, Media, and Activism, American Academy of Religion annual meeting (San Antonio, TX: November 17, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Host, “Marisa Holmes on Organizing Occupy Wall Street<\/a>,” Fireside Books (virtual: November 15, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Preludes to a Protocol Society,” Society for Social Studies of Science (Honolulu, HI: November 8-11, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African Descent<\/a>, Joint Convening of the Social Practice of Human Rights Conference and the 6th International Conference on the Right to Development, University of Dayton (Dayton, OH: November 3, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What Are Proofs for God’s Existence All About?” University of Dayton (Dayton, OH: November 2, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Social Worship: How Catholic Social Thought Helped Build the Modern Cooperative Movement,” University of Dayton (Dayton, OH: November 1, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Designing for the Economy of Involvement,” BCCM Leaders’ Summit, Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (Brisbane, Australia: October 25, 2023 [virtual])<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, DazzleCon<\/a>, Zebras Unite (Washington, DC: October 20, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Ecological Economics,” Laudato Si\u2019 and the U.S. Catholic Church conference<\/a>, Creighton University (virtual: June 27, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Diversity and Inclusion in Web3,” Web3 Financing & Inclusivity symposium<\/a>, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University (virtual: June 9, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Co-operatives and Crypto<\/a>,” Reboot<\/em> (virtual: April 27, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What Could Community Governance Feel Like?” Open Lab Lectures<\/a>, Tallinn University (virtual\/Tallinn, Estonia: April 18, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Respondent, “Images of Blockchain,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Denver, CO: April 14, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Platforms in Crisis: Social Media In\/After Platform Capitalism<\/a>,” Democratizing the Internet: Platforms, Pipes, Possibilities<\/a>, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: April 7, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sacred Stacks: The Art of Cyborg Community,” Library Innovation Lab, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA: April 3, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaker and co-organizer, DAO Harvard<\/a>, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA: April 2-4, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Modpol for Minetest Walkthrough,” DWeb New York Node March 2023 Meetup<\/a> (virtual\/New York, NY: March 23, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Designing Your Governance with CommunityRule<\/a>,” FOSS Backstage (virtual: March 13, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Facilitator, “The Noise of Democracy: Attention Economies and Governance Surfaces<\/a>,” Metagov House @ ETHDenver (Denver, CO: March 4, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n On “Modular Politics<\/a>,” Autonomous Ecologies<\/a> (Denver, CO: March 4, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces for Accountable AI,” Boulder AI Colloquium Series, University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Assembly (Boulder, CO: March 3, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “An Antidote to Big Tech\u2019s Harms: Equitable Ownership and Governance in the Online Economy,” Schelling Point<\/a> (Denver, CO: March 2, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Policymakers, Let DAOs Play<\/a>,” ETHDenver (Denver, CO: March 2, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Blockchain & Social Impact,” Impact+ @ Polygon x ETHDenver<\/a> (Denver, CO: March 1, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governing Social.coop,” Web3 Social House at ETHDenver<\/a> (Denver, CO: March 1, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, US Summit on Transformative Education, Columbia University (virtual: February 23, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Web3 and Social Networks: Decentralization with Evan Henshaw-Plath and Nathan Schneider<\/a>,” Interintellect salon (virtual: February 18, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Love It or Hate It: Let’s Talk About Chat GPT,” ASSETT, University of Colorado Boulder (virtual: February 13, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Beyond Twitter: A Look at Alternative Social Media Platforms<\/a>,” Platform Co-op School, The New School (virtual: February 1, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “21 century cooperatives: multistakeholder, platform, and DAO cooperatives \u2013 what\u2019s new?” 3rd Biennial Cooperative Law Conference<\/a> (Columbus, OH: January 24, 2023) [remote]<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Plural Governance in Online Spaces,” Plurality Research Network Conference, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA: January 13, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sacred Stacks: Governable Technologies for Vital Communities,” 4S\/ESOCITE (Cholula, Mexico: December 7-10, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governance Experience Design Workshop,” 2047 Writeathons, Our Networks (virtual: November 17, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conversation with Doc Searls<\/a>, Beyond the Web Salon Series, Ostrom Workshop (Bloomington, IN: October 17, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Tech New Deal: Policies for Community Owned Platforms,” International Conference on the Economics of Happiness (Jeonju, Korea\/virtual: September 29, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Toward Governable Stacks,” Meet.coop commons.hour<\/a> (virtual: September 26, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Live Podcast Recording \/\/ GreenPill” and “Social Good & the Decentralized Web: Power, Equity, & Rights,” Unfinished Live<\/a> (New York, NY: September 21-23, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Enabling Good Work: A Conversation with Sara Horowitz and John Restakis<\/a>,” Ownership Matters (virtual: September 6, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multiple events, DWeb Camp<\/a> (Camp Navarro, CA: August 24-28, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “How Colorado is Combining Crypto and Coops<\/a>,” Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (virtual: August 17, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote, “Ethics of the Decentralized Web & Uses in Humanitarian Work,” Metropolitan New York Library Council and Internet Archive (virtual: June 30, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Policies and Governance for Inclusive Crypto Protocols,” UZH Blockchain Center (Zurich, Switzerland: June 14, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “DAOs for Humanity,” Consensus<\/a> (Austin, TX: June 10, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Not Another Billionaire: How to Decentralize Social Media,” FIL Austin<\/a> (Austin, TX: June 8, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Homesteading on a Superhighway: The Californian Ideology and Everyday Politics,” Communication & Technology Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference (Paris, France: May 29, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm” (with Amy Hasinoff), Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference (Paris, France: May 28, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Between Past and Future, What the Internet Promised and Broke,” ETH Shanghai (virtual\/Shanghai, China: May 20, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Trabalho Decente e Governan\u00e7a para o Cooperativismo de Plataforma,” Cooperativismo de Plataforma e Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas<\/a>, Laborat\u00f3rio de Pesquisa DigiLabour (virtual: May 14, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Governance & Technological Progress<\/a>,” RadicalxChange (virtual: May 13, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Constitutions and Democracy,” Stanford DAO Symposium, Stanford University (virtual: May 3, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presenter, “Distributed Economies Workshop,” Eyebeam Fractal Fellowship (virtual: April 21, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Values and Ethics in the Workplace,” Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO: April 6, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “The Power of Community Ownership,” Shift 2022 (virtual: March 24, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Debate on “Big Tech,” Adam Smith Society (Boulder, CO: March 9, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong,” Amnesty International USA and Fight for the Future (virtual: February 24, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Bridges to the Digital State,” ETHDenver (Denver, CO: February 18, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Policy Proposals for Less Dystopian Crypto Protocols<\/a>,” Schelling Point<\/a>\/ETHDenver (Denver, CO: February 17, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStartups Need a New Option: Exit to Community,\u201d Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Institute for the Future (virtual\/Palo Alto, CA: January 27, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cModular Politics for Minetest: Governance Tooling in a Multiplayer Game,\u201d Metagovernance Seminar (virtual: January 26, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Cryptoeconomics Is Not Enough,” Web 3.0 Conference (virtual\/London: January 27, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Exit to Community,” #TheNewCommonSense: Forging the Cooperative Digital Economy (virtual\/Berlin: November 15, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cModular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities,\u201d with Amy X. Zhang, Community Driven Governance Online: Past, Present, and Future, Yale Law School (virtual: November 12, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Co-operative Communications and Publishing,” New Co-operativism seminar series, Sheffield Hallam University (virtual: November 8, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Respondent, “DAO as Institution,” Speculative Values, Rhizome (New York City: November 4, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Employee Ownership in Colorado” (with Yessica Holguin), Energize Colorado All-Hands (virtual: November 3, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Social Enterprise Exits and Preserving Mission,” TrustLaw Training, Thompson Reuters Foundation (virtual: October 26, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Occupy Religion: 10 Years On,” Wendland-Cook Program in Moderator, “Scaling Co-ops Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Colorado Solar Energy Industry Case Study,” Cooperative IMPACT Conference (virtual: October 5, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Make it Explicit: Designing Governance with CommunityRule,” Creative Bureaucracy Festival (virtual: September 15, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Cryptoeconomics Is Not Enough,” Crypto Commons Gathering 2021 (Reichenau an der Rax, Austria: August 28-September 23, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Towards a Regenerative & Distributive Economy” with Kate Raworth, Boulder Forum on Economy, Climate, and Community (virtual: July 23, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Tools for the Creative Life: Exploring the Digital Realm,” Denver Public Library (virtual: July 21, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Employee Ownership: New Ways to Compensate Your Team,” Techstars Startup Week West Slope (virtual: July 13, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Co-op: Days of Future Past,” Festival of Economic Democracy 2021, Indonesia (virtual: July 11, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote, Co-op Federation Assembly (Surrey Hills, Australia: June 17, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cModular Politics for Minetest: Governance Tooling in a Multiplayer Game,\u201d Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference, International Association for the Study of the Commons (virtual: June 11, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator, “Empowering Your Workers Through Employee Ownership,” Employee Ownership NYC (virtual: June 8, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote, “DWeb Meetup: The Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem,” Internet Archive (virtual: June 2, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Tyranny of Openness: What Happened to Peer Production?,\u201d Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division, International Communication Association (virtual: May 27-31, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEffective Voice: Beyond Exit and Affect in Online Communities,\u201d with Seth Frey, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association (virtual: May 27-31, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAdmins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities,\u201d Communication History Division, International Communication Association (virtual: May 27-31, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Alternative Data Governance \/\/ Alternative Data Economies,” Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, University of Melbourne (virtual: May 6, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “No Boss: Bay Area Worker-Owned Businesses in the Pandemic and In the Future,” City College of San Francisco (virtual: April 20, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panelist, “Building, Growing and Sustaining Community,” Creator x Crypto Summit, Seed Club (virtual: April 2, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Governable Spaces: A Feminist Architecture for Platform Policy,” Platform Governance Research Network (virtual: March 24, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Art](\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BYLAWS-Medic-664x693.png\")
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