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MAY 27: LIMITING KNOLWEDGE IN A DEMOCRACY: A SOCIAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Featuring Columbia’s Nicholas Lemann, ACLU’s Anthony Romero and others

 

WHAT:

Should the government limit knowledge to protect citizens? What restrictions undermine the republic? How can a democracy navigate the space where government privilege and public interest intersect? The New School for Social Research and its flagship journal, Social Research: An International Quarterly, address these central questions of the post-9/11 era in the final three sessions of their 21st Conference, “Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy.” Featuring leading thinkers from academia, journalism and government, the conference will focus on the philosophy, mechanisms, and lessons of intelligence control.

 
WHO:

See http://www.socres.org/limitingknowledge/agenda.html#rescheduled for full schedule

10:30 am to 1:15 pm: Limits on Knowledge: The Nexus of Power, Policy and Research
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Ronald Bayer, Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor, The Journalism School, Columbia University

Moderator: Kenneth Prewitt, Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University; fmr. US Census Bureau Director

2:15 pm to 5:00 pm: Mechanisms of Limiting Knowledge
Eric Lichtblau, Washington Bureau Reporter, The New York Times
David Aufhasuer, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School, Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society, Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Moderator: Trebor Scholz, Assistant Professor, Culture and Media Studies, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

6:00 to 8:00 pm: What We Have Learned About Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Victor Navasky, Director, Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism; Delacorte Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies, UC-San Diego
Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Moderator: Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
WHEN:

Thursday, May 27th, 2010, 10:30 am to 8 pm (Three separate sessions. www.socres.org/limitingknowledge/agenda.html#rescheduled for full schedule.)
WHERE:

The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
tickets:

$10 for full day, $5 for a single session, free for students and New School faculty.
For tickets, please visit http://www.socres.org/limitingknowledge/tickets.html

About Social Research, An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences – An award-winning journal, Social Research has been mapping the landscape of intellectual thought since 1934. Most issues are theme-driven, combining historical analysis, theoretical explanation, and reportage in rigorous and engaging discussion by some of the world’s leading scholars and thinkers. Articles cover various fields of the social sciences and the humanities and promote the interdisciplinary aims that have characterized The New School for Social Research since its inception. Recent issues have focused on such themes as "Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times” and “Russia Today,” with a forthcoming issue on “The Religious-Secular Divide.” The Social Research conference series was launched in 1988. The conferences aim to enhance public understanding of critical and contested issues by exploring them in broad historical and cultural contexts. For more information, visit www.socres.org.

About The New School – Located in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. The 10,200 matriculated students and more than 6,400 continuing education students come from around the world to participate in a wide range of undergraduate to doctoral programs in art and design, the social sciences, management and urban policy, the humanities and the performing arts. When The New School was founded in 1919, its mission was to create a place where global peace and justice were more than theoretical ideals. Today, The New School continues that mission, with programs that strive to foster engaged world citizenship. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu.