WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2010

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Session I:   Keynote Address
by Seymour M. Hersh, United States Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist; Author

Moderator: Morton H. Halperin, Senior Advisor, Open Society Institute, Open Society Policy Center

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2010

10:30 am - 1:15 pm
Session II:  Recurrence of Limits on Knowledge

The Secrecy System, Democracy and Wise Policy
Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense and State Department official; Rand Analyst; released the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times

Recent increases in limits on knowledge
Eric Lichtblau, Washington bureau reporter, The New York Times

Infrastructure restraints
Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Lister Brothers Career Development Associate Professorship, MIT

The Role of the Media
Glenn Greenwald, reporter, Salon; author; former constitutional law and civil rights litigator

Moderator: Oz Frankel, Historical Studies Department Chair, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research

Concluded by Q&A with the audience

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm      BREAK

2:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Session III:  Arguments For and Against Limits on Knowledge in a Democracy

Risks of No Limits
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Director, Undergraduate Studies for Columbia College, Columbia University

Disadvantages of Limits on Knowledge in a Democracy
Jameel Jaffer, Director, National Security Program, ACLU

The Inverse Relationship between Secrecy and Privacy
Julie E. Cohen, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderator: David Z. Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy, Director of M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Columbia University

Concluded by Q&A with the audience

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Film Screening: SECRECY, A film by Peter Galison and Robb Moss

Followed by Q&A
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Jameel Jaffer, Director, National Security Program, ACLU

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 2010

10:00 am - 12:45 pm
Session IV:  Mechanisms of Limiting Knowledge

Theories of Secrecy
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

The Impact of New Technologies on Increasing Limits and Transparency
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School; Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

National Security Secrecy: How the Limits Change
Steven Aftergood, Senior Research Analyst and Director, FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists

Cultural, Political, and Practical Limits: What We Seek to Know, What We Choose Not to Know, What We Don't Bother Knowing
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 Study, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

Concluded by Q&A with the audience

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm      BREAK

1:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Session V:  Limits on Knowledge: The Nexus of Power, Policy and Research

Geo-engineering and the Self-Imposed Limitation of Knowledge Within the Scientific Community
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

Public Health Surveillance and Privacy
Ronald Bayer, Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Media Censorship (Explicit and Implicit) and Media Distortion
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor, The Journalism School, Columbia University

Economic Sanctions and Secrecy
David D. Aufhauser, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former general counsel U.S. Department of Treasury

Moderator: Eric Lichtblau, Washington bureau reporter, The New York Times

Concluded by Q&A with the audience

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm      BREAK

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Session VI: Panel: What we have learned about Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy

Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense and State Department official; Rand Analyst; released the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times
Julie E. Cohen, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Director, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Glenn Greenwald, reporter, Salon; author; former constitutional law and civil rights litigator
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard Law School; Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Session Moderator: Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, Vice-President for Global Centers, Columbia University; former US Census Bureau director

Concluded by Q&A with the audience

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 2010

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be hosting custom tours of their art collection to illustrate how issues of secrecy, censorship, and public access to information are represented in art. Tour tickets are $15 and include admission to the museum. To attend, register for the conference and add select a tour time.