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the wake of the Snowden revelations about the surveillance capabilities of intelligence agencies, this interdisciplinary symposium gathers experts to discuss the place and implications of secrecy in contemporary culture and politics.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">14 May, 6.30-8.30, Edmund J. Safra Lecture Theatre</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net and member of the think tank, Demos, will be giving this keynote lecture on the secret side
of the Internet. Bartlett will discuss some of the net’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures including trolling, neo-Nazis, child pornography, bitcoin and crypto-anarchy. He will examine how people behave under the conditions of real or perceived anonymity
online, and what it means for society today.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Artist Zach Blas will be a respondent to Jamie's lecture, discussing his latest project on what he calls the Contra-Internet. Recognizing
the Internet as a premier arena of control today, contra-internet is both a refusal of, or exodus from, the internet and also an attempt to build aesthetico-political alternatives to its infrastructures.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Free registration: </span><a href="http://secretsofdarknet.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">http://secretsofdarknet.eventbrite.co.uk</a><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">15 May, 9-5.30, Edmund J. Safra Lecture Theatre</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">9-9.15: Introduction: Secrecy’s Frame</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Clare Birchall (King’s College London) & Matt Potolsky (University of Utah)</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">9.15-10.45: Roundtable 1: <strong>Between Opacity and Openness</strong></span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Mark Fenster (University of Florida) 'Secrecy and the Hypothetical State Archive'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Zach Blas (University of Buffalo) 'Informatic Opacity'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Mikkel Flyvverbom (Copenhagen Business School) 'Transparency, Secrecy and the Limits of Knowledge'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Vian Bakir (Bangor University) 'Deceptive Organised Persuasive Communication: (a) Misdirection and (b) Secretly Altering Reality
to Fit the Lie you want to Tell'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">11.15-12.30: Roundtable 2: <strong>Aesthetics of the S</strong><strong>ecret</strong></span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">John Beck (University of Westminster) 'Photography’s Open Secret'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Neal White (Artist, Bournemouth University) 'Secrecy and Art in Practice'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Clare Birchall (King’s College London) 'Art "After" Snowden'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">1.30-3.00: Roundtable 3: <strong>Open Secrets</strong></span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Jack Bratich (Rutgers University) 'Spectacular Secrecy and the Secret Sphere: Rumsfeld, Anonymous, and Snowden'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Deme Kasimis (Yale University) 'Passing as Open Secrecy: Migrants and the Performance of Citizenship in Classical Greek Thought'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Adam Piette (Sheffield University) 'The Open Secret of Nuclear Waste'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Matt Potolsky (University of Utah) 'Beyond Fiction: The NSA and Representation'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">3.30-4.45: Roundtable 4: <strong>Covert Spheres</strong></span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Timothy Melley (Miami University) 'The Democratic Security State: Operating Between Secrecy and Publicity'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Øyvind Vågnes (University of Copenhagen) 'Drone Warfare and the Language of Precision'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">Hugh Urban (Ohio State) 'The Silent Brotherhood: Secrecy, Violence, and Surveillance from the Brüder Schweigen to the War on Terror'</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">5.00-5.30: Summary: Secrecy’s Future</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,'Segoe UI','Segoe WP',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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