Privacy, as its English usage suggests, is a place and a possession as much as an idea or abstract right—a physical realm supposedly separate from public view. In a world in which technology permeates the personal, the everyday, the intimate, what meaning does this value have? Where privacy is voluntarily surrendered, what is it worth to individuals? And where the internet makes possible mass surveillance, what protections are there for the space, and the experience, of privacy? This conference examines not only the legal arrangements affecting privacy—and the time-lag between law and technological advance—but privacy as a philosophical concept and a cultural tenet. What divisions of activity and status created the idea of “privacy” in the first instance? Is it a disappearing value, or is its erosion a source of crisis? Does the sheer extensiveness of the surveillance enabled by technologies of communication cancel the significance of such monitoring, or generate new forms of persecution?
Speakers
Roger Berkowitz
Kerry Bystrom
Alexander García Düttmann
Christian Heller
Scott Horton
Tom Keenan
Anna Kim
Hubertus Knabe
Ewa Majewska
Anatoli Mikhailov
Catherine Toal
Ben Wizner
Information on participating / attending:
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.
Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
Date:
05/07/2015 19:30 - 05/08/2015 19:00
Event venue:
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8
10119 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
interdisciplinary
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
04/20/2015
Sender/author:
Irina Stelea
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event50682
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