Secrecy and Unsecrecy: Researching the media, memoirs and intelligence agencies in the twitter age.
Podiumsdiskussion
Thorsten Wetzling will chair a discussion on the underconceptualised and ambivalent role of the press as an oversight mechanism at a workshop at the Spy Museum in Berlin.
The entire program for the conference:
Secrecy and Unsecrecy:
Researching the media, memoirs and intelligence agencies in the twitter age.
10.30 -12.00 PANEL 1: Secrecy publicity and signals intelligence
JASON DYMYDIUK, Uni of Warwick, ‘The Emergence of GCHQ and NSA’
MELINA DOBSON, Uni of Warwick, ‘Comparing American Whistle-blowers’
RICHARD ALDRICH, Uni of Warwick, ‘GCHQ’s public profile’
SARAH MAINWARING, Kluge Fellow, Lib of Congress, ‘From LCSA to NCSC’
12.00-1.00 Keynote 1: Dr Paul Lashmar, City University, ‘Spooks and the Press’
2.00- 3.00 PANEL 2: National perspectives on press as an oversight mechanism
Chair: THORSTEN WETZLING, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
CEES WIEBES, University of Amsterdam/NCTB, ‘The Netherlands’
DANIEL MOßBRUCKER, Reporters Without Borders (Rsf) Germany
DORA GELO, University of Zagreb, ‘Slovenia’
DANIELA RICHTEROVA, Brunel University, ‘Slovakia’
3.30-5.00 PANEL 3: Spy Memoirs and Methodology
JULES GASPARD, Kings College London, ‘Four Recent CIA memoirs’
CHRISTOPHER MORAN, Uni of Warwick, ‘CIA memoirs in history’
RORY CORMAC, Uni of Nottingham, ‘Covert action memoirs’