[ecrea] CFP (conference): Exposing Secrets: The Past, Present and Future of U.S. National Security Whistleblowing and Government Secrecy

*_CFP (conference): Exposing Secrets: The Past, Present and Future of 
U.S. National Security Whistleblowing and Government Secrecy_*

*An Interdisciplinary Conference involving Scholars, Journalists, 
Whistleblowers, and Advocates*

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*18-19 January 2019//*

New York University London Campus,6 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK

Keynote Speakers include

Ewan MacAskill: Pulitzer Prize-winning defence and intelligence 
correspondent for/The Guardian/

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John Kiriakou: Former CIA-analyst and case officer who was prosecuted 
after exposing torture

Edward Snowden and National Security Agency mass surveillance; Reality 
Winner and Russian interference in U.S. elections; James Comey and 
Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice. National security whistleblowing 
continues to shape history and stir controversy in and beyond the U.S. 
Drawing on political, legal, journalistic and cultural perspectives, 
this international, public conference will explore among other topics:

-The contested definition of whistleblowing versus “leaking” and 
“unauthorized disclosure”

-The relationship between whistleblowers and journalists

-Whistleblowing and the evolution of information: “big data”

-The legality of whistleblowing and the challenges of advocacy

-Whistleblowers in popular culture

- State deterrence of whistleblowing: old and new mechanisms

-Whistleblowing as a transnational phenomenon

-Publishers: From traditional media to WikiLeaks

We welcome individual submissions, as well as proposed panels and 
roundtables. Please send a 500-word abstract and brief 1-2 page bio/cv 
(to_whistleblowingconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(whistleblowingconference /at/ gmail.com)>_by*_15 September 2018_.*

Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia)

Hannah Gurman (New York University)

For more see:_https://wp.nyu.edu/whistleblowing_


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