Secrecy and Transparency

Saturday, December 7th
2:30 - 4:30PM
Past Event

The internet makes possible the unprecedented sharing of, access to, and data manipulation of, individual and social information with far reaching implications for personal privacy, healthcare, citizenship and national security, and for the definitions of personhood, institutional power and information itself. In this roundtable, we aim to explore contemporary notions of privacy, relationships between individuals and between... read more! »
The internet makes possible the unprecedented sharing of, access to, and data manipulation of, individual and social information with far reaching implications for personal privacy, healthcare, citizenship and national security, and for the definitions of personhood, institutional power and information itself. In this roundtable, we aim to explore contemporary notions of privacy, relationships between individuals and between individuals and institutions that arise through data exchange. We also hope to consider the role of secrets in notions of self, emotion, and reason, as well as the tensions between secrecy and transparency in protecting, exploiting, or undoing the individual and her freedoms. Free and open to the public.

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This is a past event that happened on Saturday, December 7th 2:30 - 4:30PM.

Participants

Alex Abdo

Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project

Alex Abdo is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project. He is counsel in the ACLU’s challenge to the NSA’s phone-records program and has been involved in the litigation of cases concerning the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the treatment of detainees in Guantánamo... read more! »

Jack Z. Bratich

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University

Jack Z. Bratich is Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. His work applies autonomist social theory to popular culture and social movement media. He is a zine librarian at ABC No Rio and has co-taught courses at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City. He is author ofConspiracy Panics:... read more! »

Elizabeth Haase

Assistant Clinical Professor, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Dr. Haase is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice, an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center. Her professional activities include work as editor, writer, and teacher for The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, The Association of Dynamic Psychiatry, and The... read more! »

Ted Jacobs

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine

Theodore Jacobs is a board certified psychiatrist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. He’s also a training and Supervising Analyst for adults and children at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine. Dr. Jacobs... read more! »

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Professor of Psychology, Education, Biomedical Engineering, and Social Work at Rutgers University. In addition he serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for... read more! »