Privacy at Risk?The Provost announces the second year of an annual series of related lectures on a topic of major campus and broader societal importance. The lecture series will bring the University's research and teaching mission to bear on some timely societal issues. It will have the campus community as its core audience, but will be directed as well to the Durham, national and international audiences. The substance of the lecture series will be developed with input from an appropriate committee of faculty and will generally draw its presenters from outside speakers. In addition to giving a public lecture, speakers will be invited to meet with students and faculty in smaller group activities.
This year's series will address the topic of privacy on which we intend to bring multiple perspectives, historical, technological, ethical and in terms of critical policy choices about the appropriate balance to be struck between protecting the privacy of individuals in terms of their personal information and communications and the "demands" of national security.
The series is intended to provide the background required for those on our campus and in the broader community to better engage in the debate currently underway in American society regarding the issue of privacy in a variety of contexts.
The Provost wishes to thank the following Faculty Advisors for their work in helping to design this year's series: James Boyle (Law School), Christopher Cramer (Office of Information Technology), Jeffrey Glass (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Allan Lind (Fuqua School of Business), Kristen Neuschel (Department of History), Noah Pickus (Kenan Institute for Ethics), Jerry Reiter (Institute of Statistics & Decision Sciences), and Ken Rogerson (Sanford Institute of Public Policy Studies)
