Public Talks

"AI Ethics", Philosophy of Science (BA-level) [Guest Lecture], University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Copenhagen, March 18, 2025.

"Surveillance as political conflict by other means: The case of Palestinian human rights", Surveillance Studies Network Conference 2024: May 28-31 Ljubljana [Conference], Surveillance Studies Network & University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, May 28-31, 2024.

"Being targets or nontargets of a technology, and how it relates to the Jewish-Arab divide in Israel", Section for Consumption, Bioethics and Governance, Institute for Food and Resource Economics [Seminar/Colloquium], University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, April 16, 2024.

"Examining the optimistic approach to the effects of current AI on workers", Artificial Intelligence and Transformations of Work 2023 [Conference], Grenoble-Alpes University, Grenoble, November 20-22, 2023.

"The ethical dilemmas regarding development of AI under academic settings", Panel: Integrating Ethics, STS-HUB.DE 2023 [Conference], RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, March 15-18, 2023.

"Studying the development of a healthcare AI tool", Institute for Food and Resource Economics' Sociological Seminar [Seminar/Colloquium], University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, January 6, 2023.

"Deciphering Apathy Towards Surveillance: Nontargets as a Key Concept", The 9th biennial Surveillance & Society conference of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) [Conference], Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, June 1-3, 2022.

"Surveillance creep and the Drift into Totalitarianism in Democratic Regimes: The Israeli Case", Totalitarianization - A Mini-Course [Non-Academic Forum], The Imbala Political Cooperative, Jerusalem, April 4, 2022.

"Major Obstacle in Bringing Down the Giant", Digital Living, Digital Infrastructuring [Conference], STS Austria, Graz, September 13-15, 2021.

"Risk Unloading: A Look Into How Developers Address Risk in Healthcare-AI, Through the Case Study of Israeli Startups in the Field of Radiology", The 2021 Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) [Conference], University of Geneva, online, June 28-30, 2021.

"Incorporating Ethnicity in a Political Economy Theory – An Ongoing Challenge", The Mizrahi Struggle – Where To? [Conference], Israel’s Open University, Ra'anana, June 2, 2021.

"How Merit Assessment Defies the Notion of Merit", The Illusion of Merit (2021) [Workshop], HEIRS, Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations, online, April 15, 2021.

"Organizations’ Commitment to Transparency in Surveillance Settings", Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance - follow-up workshop [Workshop], Freie Universität Berlin & Jagiellonian University, Kraków, September 30-October 1, 2019.

"Social Cost-Evasion in the Development and Implementation of Healthcare AI", The Clinic and the Bank: Towards a Bioethics of the Information Revolution in Medicine [Workshop], The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, July 7-10, 2019.

"Algorithmic Failures and their Contribution to the Solidification of the Surveillance Society: The Google Case Study", The 6th Tel-Aviv University Privacy Workshop [Workshop], Blavantik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center & Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, April 11, 2019.

"Nuanced Risk in Surveillance Technologies’ Applications: A Comparison Between Four Case Studies", Bar-Ilans' Colloquium on Science, Technology and Society [Seminar/Colloquium], The Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, April 7, 2019.

"Surveillance and the Paradox of Transparency", Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance [Workshop], Freie Universität Berlin & Jagiellonian University, Berlin, November 15-17, 2018.

"Beyond Utopias and Dystopias: Identifying the True Risks in New Technology Applications", Critical Engagement vs. Technophobia: The Risks of Emerging Technologies [Workshop], Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SSTNET) of the European Sociological Association (ESA) & University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, October 11-12, 2018.

"The Histadrut's policy towards [Jewish] workers who immigrated from Yemen: A social history analysis", 2nd International Conference of the Study of Yemeni Jewry and Culture [Conference], The Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem, September 2-3, 2018. [A link to the presentation in Hebrew]

"The Stratifying Trade Union: The Case of Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Palestine, 1920-1948", Introduction: Lev Grinberg | Featured Speakers: Henriette Dahan Kalev, Efraim Davidi, Shaul Duke, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University [Book Launch], Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, May 1, 2018. [A link to the presentation in Hebrew]

"Technology as an enabler and restrictor of academic efficiency in qualitative research", 8th Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference of Qualitative Research [Conference], ICQM – Israeli Center for Qualitative Methods & Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, February 6-7, 2018.

"'Empowering surveillance' in the Occupied Palestine Territories: The empowering potential of databases of mass repression, and its realization", Israeli Sociological Society's 49th Annual Conference [Conference], The Israeli Sociological Society & Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, January 29-30, 2018.

"Lifting the veil on apathy towards surveillance: Social context as mediating between awareness and active opposition", Social Aspects of Surveillance [Conference], Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, May 6, 2017.