Rethinking Privacy - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

For roughly two hundred years, Western liberal societies have enshrined privacy as a social value and legal right. But in recent decades, privacy has come under intense pressure. This symposium, co-hosted by the DFG-Research Project “American Literature and the Transformation of Privacy” at Goethe Universität Frankfurt and the DFG-Research Training Group “Privacy and Digitalisation” at Universität Passau, brings together leading and upcoming interdisciplinary scholars from the United States of America and Germany in order to sound out more level-headed reflections on the challenges to privacy. Contributors from the fields of History, Literary Studies, Political Theory, Sociology, Law, and Cultural Studies will use the current structural transformation of privacy as an opportunity to rethink how to approach privacy in the twenty-first century.

Das Symposium findet am 28. Mai 2018 im IG-Farben-Haus IG 1.414 auf dem Gelände der Goethe-Universität statt. Ein ausführliches Programm und weitere Informationen finden Sie als Flyer zum Download.

Das Programm:

Sarah Igo – Vanderbilt University
10:00 – 11:00
Histories of Privacy (And Why They Matter)

Sandra Seubert – Goethe-University Frankfurt
11:00 – 12:00
Suspiciously Ordinary: Socio-Critical Reflections on the Concept of Privacy

Martin Stempfhuber – University of Würzburg
12:00 – 13:00
Embedded Privacies: Some Recent Development in the Sociology of Privacy 2.0

David Rosen – Trinity College, Hartford CT & Aaron Santesso – Georgia Institute of Technology
14:00 – 15:00
Public in Private: Some Problems of Communication in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Lukas Edeler – University of Passau
15:00 – 16:00
Privacy as a Lens on State Socialist Societies? Historiographic Perspectives

Christian Aldenhoff – University of Passau
16:00 – 17:00
Autonomy as the Foundation for a Right to Privacy

Die Konferenzsprache ist Englisch.