Central European University Budapest, Hungary March 23-24, 2001

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Friday, March 23^rd

I. Private/Public: The Distinction
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

A.  Landscape of Privacy

Speaker: Renata Salecl, Senior Researcher, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana; Slovenia
Commentator: Anna Wessely, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Eötvös Loránd University; Hungary

B. Development of the Concept

Speaker: Joe Bailey, Director of Graduate Studies, Kingston University; United Kingdom
Commentator: Nenad Miscevic, Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia

Coffee break

II. Present Understandings of Public/Private as Emerging from Communism
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The History

A. Publicity and Media in Communism and After: The Destruction of Privacy

Speaker: Piotr Stasinski, Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza; Poland
Commentator: Oksana Zabuzhko, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Philosophy, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Ukraine

B. Collectivity and Community: Is It Public in Russia?

Speaker: Elena Zdravomyslova, Centre for Independent Social Research, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Commentator: Júlia Szalai, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

III. States and Boundaries
3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., with a coffee break at 4:30 p.m.
 

A. Private Lives, Secret States

Speaker: Mark Neocleous, Lecturer, Brunel University; United Kingdom
Commentator: István Szikinger, Ph.D., Practicing Lawyer, Budapest, Hungary

Speaker: Andrzej Rzeplinski, Professor of Criminal and Constitutional Law, Warsaw University;Poland
Commentator: László Majtényi, Parliamentary Commissioner, Data Protection and Freedom of Information; Hungary

Reception and Keynote Address
6:00 p.m.

Marc Rotenberg, Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center

IV. States and Boundaries (cont.)
9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., with a coffee break at 11:00 a.m.

C. Uses and Abuses of the Concept of Privacy

Speaker: János Kis, University Professor of Political Science and of Philosophy at Central European University, Budapest
Commentator: András Sajó, Head of the Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest

Speaker: Roger Errera, Justice, Le Conseil d'Etat; France
Commentator: Susanne Baer, Professor of Law, Humboldt University, Berlin

Speaker: Judit Sándor, Professor of Political Science, Central European University; Hungary
Commentator: Dominique Memmi, Researcher in Political Science and Sociology, Institut de Recherche sur les Societes Contemporaines, Paris

V. Democratic Process and Non-Public Politics
2:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., with a coffee break at 3:30 p.m.

A. Public and Private Discourse and the Emerging European Politics of Prejudice

Speaker: András Kovács, Professor of History, Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University
Commentator: Nils Muiznieks, Director of the Latvian Center for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies; Latvia

Speaker: G. M. Tamás, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Hungary
Commentator: Mark Neocleous, Lecturer, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Speaker: Yaman Akdeniz, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds; United Kingdom
Commentator:  Péter György, FA Department of Aesthetics, Eötvös Loránd University; Hungary

6:00 p.m. -- Closing Dinner with participants near CEU

To register, please contact David Caughlin at Central European University:
 

Contact information New York New School University Dr. Arien Mack, Project Director Magda Wolinski, New York Conference Coordinator Social Research - Privacy New School University 65 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003, USA Phone: (+212) 229-2488    Fax: (+212) 229-5476 E-mail:socres@newschool.edu

Registration/Contact information Budapest Central European University Dr. András Sajó, Conference Convenor David Caughlin, On-site Conference Coordinator Legal Studies Department Central European University Nador u. 9 H-1051 Budapest, HUNGARY Tel: (+36-1) 327-3236  Fax: (+36-1) 327-3198 E-mail: caughlin@ceu.hu

The  conference is organized by Dr. Andras Sajó, Conference Convenor, Central European University and Dr. Arien Mack, Project Director, New School University, and supported by grants from the Open Society Institute  and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Privacy--Budapest is second in a series of Privacy conferences organized by Dr. Mack. Click here for information about the New York Privacy conference, held on October 5-7, 2000.

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