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This series is free and open to the public. Each presentation will be followed by a reception. The schedule of speakers is as follows:
- Friday, November 10, 2006
Rafael Capurro
"Privacy: An Intercultural Perspective"
Rafael Capurro, Professor of Information Management & Information
Ethics, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
10:30 am, Assembly Room, William Pitt Union,
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Capurro's presentation will focus on intercultural
aspects of privacy, including privacy in cyberspace and
mass media. He will address differences between Japanese
and Western contexts. Beginning with a brief overview
of Western subjectivity and human dignity as the basic
assumptions underlying Western views on privacy, he will
also discuss the Western concept of informational privacy.
- Friday, May 19, 2006
"Technological Organizational and Institutional
Safeguards for Authentic Electronic Records"
Albert Jacob Meijer, Associate Professor, Utrecht School
of Governance, The Netherlands
12:00 pm, Room 501 IS Building, University of Pittsburgh
Professor Meijer will discuss the nature of safeguards
for the authenticity of electronic records.
Many theorists and practitioners focus on technological
safeguards. Empirical research on the use of records
by
accountability also shows that organizational and institutional
safeguards can be identified. Meijer theorizes that organizations
should create integral arrangements of technological,
organizational and institutional
safeguards in the design of recordkeeping systems.
www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/events.asp.
- Thursday, April 20, 2006
“The Paradox of Preservation”
Michele Cloonan, Dean and Professor of the Simmons
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
4:30 pm Frick Fine Arts Building
What are the moral, cultural, and ethical issues
related to preservation and the recording of history?
Professor Cloonan will discuss how archivists should
document and analyze events of significant moral and
ethical contention. RSVP to www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/events.asp.
- Thursday, April 6, 2006
“Is Government Still Accountable”
Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security
Archive at George Washington University
4:30 pm, Frick Fine Arts Building
Mr. Blanton will examine challenges e to Americans'
access to government records and how access to records
and information can be improved to make government
more transparent and accountable to its citizens. No
reservations required.
- Thursday, March 23, 2006
“Reaching for Hospitality: Politics
and Ethics in Recordmaking”
Verne Harris, Project Manager, Centre of Memory,
Nelson Mandela Foundation
4:30 pm, Frick Fine Arts Building
Mr. Harris will discuss the role of archivists and
how politics may intrude in recordmaking. No reservations
required.
- Thursday, February 23, 2006
“Public Ethics, Legal Accountability,
and New Governance”
Laura Jensen, Professor, Center for Public Policy
and Administration at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
4:30 pm, Bigelow Room, Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Professor Jensen will address whether or not the
government is ethically and legally responsible for
the behavior of nongovernmental actors (contractors)
it employs to implement public policy. She will examine
the legal dimensions of government accountability when
public functions are contracted out. RSVP to www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/events.asp
- Thursday, January 26, 2006
“Are the Archives Doomed?”
Rick Prelinger, Founder of the Prelinger Archives
4:30 pm, Frick Fine Arts Building
Mr. Prelinger will look at the marginalization of
archives in light of copyright issues, technology advances,
and resistance to providing access to collections. The
speaker will address the potential new public role of
the archivist and providing access to archival materials.
There will be a screening of his all-archival feature
film, “Panorama Ephemera,” following the
reception. No reservations required.
- Thursday, January 19, 2006
“Government Secrecy in the Information
Age”
Alasdair Roberts, Professor at the Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs & Director of the
Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University.
4:30 pm, Bigelow Room, Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Professor Roberts will examine the evolution of
governmental openness in light of technological innovation.
Are communication innovations ending government secrecy?
RSVP to www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org/events.asp
This lecture series is free and open to the public.
Receptions will follow each presentation. Visit www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org or www.sis.pitt.edu/academics/seminars.html for
more information.
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