Keynote Speaker:

Luciano Floridi
University of Hertforshire, Department of Philosophy; University of Oxford, Director of the IEG; and Universita degli Studi di Bari, Scienze Filosofiche

Other Speakers:

Frances Grodzinsky
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
Sacred Heart University

Mark Manion
Department of Humanities and Communications
Drexel University

James Stacey Taylor
Department of Philosophy and Religion
The College of New Jersey

Richard Volkman
Research Center on Computing and Society and Department of Philosophy
Southern Connecticut State University

About the 2008 Roundtable:

The conference will address such issues as:

* What tensions exist between privacy and intellectual property interests?

* Under what circumstances, if any, are violations of privacy justified?

* What moral issues are raised by peer-to-peer file sharing?

This year's Roundtable will be free, but registration is required.

Sponsors of the 2008 Roundtable:

The Library Association of The City University of New York (LACUNY)

The Hunter College Auxiliary Enterprise Board

The Hunter College Library

About the Roundtable:

We live in an “information society.” Information and new information technologies have become essential to our social, economic, and political interactions. The roundtable brings together researchers from several different disciplines (philosophy, information science, communications, public administration, anthropology, law, etc.) to discuss the ethical issues surrounding access to information, information privacy, intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship.

The first Information Ethics Roundtable in 2003 grew out of a debate in Library Quarterly between Doyle and Fricke-Mathiesen-Fallis on the issue of Censorship and Access to Information.  Subsequent topics have included privacy, intellectual property, and indigenous knowledge and cultural property. Keynote speakers in previous years:

2004: Michael Brown, author of Who Owns Native Culture?
2005: Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs
2006: Alasdair Roberts, author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age
2007: Loriene Roy, President (2007-08) of the American Library Association

Organization of this Year’s Roundtable:

The organizers of the Roundtable are Tony Doyle (Program Chair), Don Fallis, Kay Mathiesen, and Catherine Womack. For further information about this year's Roundable contact Tony Doyle at 212-772-4181.