Date/Time Date(s) - 22/09/20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location Kenneth Taylor Hall (KTH) 104, or Live Stream.
Online & in-person | September 22, 2025 | 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Location | In-person: McMaster University, Kenneth Taylor Hall (KTH) Room 104 and Streamed Online. Register by 11:59pm ET Sunday September 21st.
“Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality?”
Join 2025 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor Wendy H. Wong as she discusses her recent book, We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT, 2023), winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and finalist for the 2024 Lionel-Gelber Prize.
Wendy H. Wong is a professor and Principal’s Research Chair in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).
A leading scholar in International Relations, her research focuses on global governance, technology, human rights, and NGOs. She is the author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT, 2023), which received the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and was a finalist for the 2024 Lionel-Gelber Prize.
She previously directed the Trudeau Center for Peace, Conflict, and Justice and served as Research Lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute at the University of Toronto.
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For inquiries, please contact pubpol@mcmaster.ca.
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