Events

The events of the Weizenbaum Institute focus on important topics of digitalization in order to promote the dialog between science and practice.

11/17/2026

06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut | Hardenbergstraße 32 | 10623 Berlin

Book Presentation

Panel Discussion

Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism"

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Weizenbaum Conference

The annual conference of the Weizenbaum Institute brings together experts from various disciplines and on topics such as artificial intelligence, responsibility and sustainability, or digital independence from around the world.

Weizenbaum Debate

The Weizenbaum Debate opens the space for controversial but respectful debates on the major challenges of digital society. Besides experts, everyone interested in digital politics is invited.

Weizenbaum Forum

With the Weizenbaum Forum, we open up our institute to concerns and views from politics, business and civil society. A wide audience is invited to this exchange between science and practice.

Pizza and...

At Pizza and... people from the political sphere meet our researchers to talk about current digitalization topics while enjoying a pizza.

Weizenbaum Movie Night

The Weizenbaum Movie Night features films on diverse topics of digitalization. We always invite experts or filmmakers to the screening with whom the audience can delve further into the issues.

Policy Roundtable

Our policy roundtables bring together policy makers, scientists, and experts to discuss the regulation of digital technologies.

09/30/2026

07:00 PM - 08:30 PM | Kinosaal der Rotor Film GmbH,
August-Bebel-Str. 26-53/Haus 4, 14482 Potsdam

Weizenbaum Debate

Bei der diesjährigen Weizenbaum Debate wollen wir den Blick auf das richten, was uns verbindet, und gemeinsame Grundlagen für eine konstruktive Debatte schaffen. Was hält uns zusammen – und wie können wir das Miteinander stärken?

09/30/2026

05:00 PM - 06:30 PM | TU Berlin, Fraunhoferstr. 33–36, Room: FH 804

Talk

As the ubiquity of digital media has created new informational layer to urban spaces and shifted how urban residents interact, a nascent body of research has begun inquiring into the relationship between cities and platforms.

09/30/2026 - 10/02/2026

Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Symposium

Wie können Datenspenden unabhängige Forschung ermöglichen, wenn Plattformkonzerne den Zugang zu ihren Daten zunehmend einschränken? Darüber diskutieren Am 1. und 2. Oktober diskutieren internationale Expert:innen beim 5. Data Donation Symposium über aktuelle Entwicklungen und Methoden.

09/21/2026 - 09/22/2026

Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

Symposium

The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI) invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to present their work at the joint…

09/16/2026

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum Institute,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Distinguished Lecture

Weizenbaum Distinguished Fellow Lecture with Prof. Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago, about the civic potential of AI and possible futures

09/16/2026

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | online

Colloquium

Im Rahmen des Debattenmonitors „Digitalpolitik auf Kurs“ laden wir Sie zu der 1. Ausgabe ein, in der wir uns mit dem „digitalen Omnibus“ beschäftigen, der von der Europäischen Union angestoßen wurde. Damit schaffen wir einen Raum, um aktuelle Digitalgesetze und Debatten einzuordnen, Wechselwirkungen…

09/16/2026 - 09/18/2026

Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Conference

Jubiläumstagung der Fachgruppe „Digitale Kommunikation“ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin

09/14/2026 - 09/17/2026

BIFOLD Campus, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28-29, 10587 Berlin

Conference

The summer school invites researchers and practitioners to explore the parameters which have to be considered when AI systems are designed to act autonomously.

09/08/2026

06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | digital

Weizenbaum Forum

Expertinnen und Experten aus der interdisziplinären Forschung beleuchten, wie digitale Innovationen für die Gesellschaft langfristig etabliert werden können.

09/03/2026

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Book Presentation

Panel Discussion

Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism”

09/02/2026

06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Panel Discussion

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Paneldiskussion stehen aktuelle Herausforderungen für Open Science sowie mögliche Perspektiven für eine zukunftsfähige wissenschaftliche Praxis.

08/20/2026

06:00 PM - 09:00 PM | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin

Panel Discussion

Lecture

The current phase of artificial intelligence is often described as a rupture, as fundamentally new. But what if it is a redrawing of historical patterns?

08/14/2026

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Weizenbaum Institute, Flex Room (A1_05 ) and online via Zoom

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Talk

Join us for the Lunch Talk "What should ChatGPT (not) say about the Holocaust: Multi-method approach to studying risks of hate speech propagation by generative AI" given by Mykola Makhortykh.

08/10/2026

03:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut (Flexraum) und via Zoom

Weizenbaum Colloquium

07/16/2026

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

Colloquium

Lecture

Presentation by Moritz Kleinaltenkamp (Neoma Business School Reims) at the colloquium of the research group “Reorganization of Knowledge Practices”.

07/08/2026

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

Talk

Lecture

07/06/2026

04:30 PM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut (Flexraum) und via Zoom

Weizenbaum Colloquium

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07/02/2026

12:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin und online via Zoom

Colloquium

Lecture

Lecture in the colloquium series of the research group “Reorganization of Knowledge Practices” at the Weizenbaum Institute, Summer term 2026.

06/16/2026

06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | digital

Weizenbaum Forum

While AI systems are increasingly developed and adopted across diverse sectors, a large workforce in the Global South producing data and verifying automated outputs has remained invisible. These workers are called data workers.

06/12/2026

10:00 AM - 03:00 PM | WZB Social Science Centre, A310

Workshop

This workshop starts from a provocation: the language of digital sovereignty circulating in academic and policy settings is both exhausted and exhausting.

06/11/2026

09:30 AM - 11:00 AM | bUm – Raum für soziales Miteinander,
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21,
10999 Berlin

Colloquium

Lecture

Vortrag von Louise Amoore (Durham University) im Rahmen der Weizenbaum Conference und des Kolloquiums "Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken"

06/10/2026 - 06/11/2026

bUm – Raum für soziales Miteinander,
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21,
10999 Berlin

Weizenbaum Conference

The 8th Weizenbaum Conference will bring together research from various disciplines on how GenAI affects society. It is chaired by Florian Butollo and Anne Krüger.

06/08/2026

03:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Flex Room

Weizenbaum Colloquium

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06/01/2026

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin

Book Presentation

Lecture

Vortrag und Diskussion zum Buch „Was das Valley herrschen nennt”, das zeigt, wie Tech-Eliten Macht denken, legitimieren und zunehmend politischen Einfluss ausüben.

Events

Upcoming events

Sarah Sharma: Insufferable Tools. Feminism Against Big Tech

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Past Events

Weizenbaum Debate – How To Debate: Zusammenhalt stärken statt Gräben vertiefen

The City and the Platform: A Dialogical Keynote

5. Data Donation Symposium

DigiSem 2026 | Balancing Digital Safety between Risks, Rights, and Regulation

Prof. Zizi Papacharissi: Affective AI. Dreams and Nightmares about Technology and Civic Life

Digitalpolitik auf Kurs: Weizenbaum-Institut startet gemeinsam mit Bertelsmann Stiftung Debattenmonitor

Utopien und Dystopien der digitalen Gesellschaft: 30 Jahre Forschung zu computervermittelter Kommunikation

BIFOLD Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society

Perspektiven auf Verstetigung von Modellprojekten, Civic Tech und Prototypen

Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry and Team: Inventing ELIZA. How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

Offene Wissenschaft im Wandel – für und mit der Gesellschaft

Prof. Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires: Artificial Intelligence, Power, and the History of Imperial Systems

What should ChatGPT (not) say about the Holocaust?

Kate Crawford: Cognitive Sovereignty and AI

Moritz Kleinaltenkamp: Accounting Infrastructure and Temporal Coordination in German Public Health

Francesco Preta: Who Owns the Vector? A Critical Genealogy of Vector Space Theory

Gila Kurtz: Is the Lecture Dead? Redesigning Learning in the Age of Generative AI

Christian Katzenbach: The Long and Quick Formation of Generative AI as Inevitable: Imaginaries, Policies, and Controversies

Rethinking Policies with and for Data Workers: Labor Issues in the Governance of AI Supply Chains

Sovereignty Exhaustion: New Vocabularies for Global AI Value Chains

Zero Shot World: On the Political Logics of Generative AI

Weizenbaum Conference 2026: Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?

Jan Grenzebach: Stimulus, Response, Bias: Evaluating Black-Box General-Purpose LLM in Algorithmic Hiring

Adrian Daub: Was das Valley herrschen nennt

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