Power, Privacy, and the Internet
Arranged by The New York Review of Books Foundation; PEN American Center; The Fritt Ord Foundation; Lead Bank; The Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University; and The Europaeum.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 30 October
Welcoming Remarks by Robert Silvers, Editor of The New York Review Of Books.
Panel I
2:00–3:30
GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS AND HACKERS:
THE INTERNET AND THREATS TO THE PRIVACY AND DIGNITY OF THE CITIZEN
Eric Klinenberg (Chair), Director of The Institute For Public Knowledge, New York University.
James Bamford, Author and Expert on the National Security Agency (NSA).
Sue Halpern, Scholar in Residence, Middlebury College.
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch.
Panel II
4:00–5:30
THE INTERNET, THE BOOK, THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBRARY
Robert Silvers (chair)
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor of History at Harvard and University Librarian
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton
Thursday, 31 October
Panel III
9:30–11:00
THE INTERNET, REPRESSION, AND DISSENT
Suzanne Nossel (chair), Executive Director, PEN American Center, New York.
Perry Link, Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of California, Riverside (on China)
Wen Yunchao, Chinese writer and Internet activist (on China)
Amy Knight, Historian (on Russia)
Panel IV
11:15-12:45
THE INTERNET AND THE FUTURE OF THE PRESS
Robert Silvers (chair)
Emily Bell, Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia; and formerly Director for Digital Content at The Guardian, London.
Nicholas Lemann, Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia; Staff Writer at the New Yorker
Michael Massing, Contributing Editor at The Columbia Journalism Review
Panel V
1:45–3:15
THE INTERNET, THE ECONOMY AND PRODUCTION
Philip Howard (chair), Common Good
Jeff Madrick, Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York; Editor of Challenge Magazine.
Morten Kyng, Professor of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Simon Head, Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University; Director of Programs, The New York Review Of Books Foundation.
