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The purpose of this series of events is to encourage critical dialogue on the phenomena of Wikileaks. We aim to explore the theoretical and discursive tensions inherent in representations of Wikileaks, as well as possibilities for praxis both within "the academy" and outside, in relation to questions about security, international relations, and the reconfiguration of public and private space. By bringing together scholars who work in the area(s) of media theory, radical democracy and the state, we hope to provoke future conversation about the broader ethical, legal and socio-political effects of Wikileaks.

For further information contact Bianca Baggiarini: b.baggiarini@gmail.com

Geert Lovink is a Dutch/Australian media theorist and innovative philosopher. Geert was born during the year of 1959 in Amsterdam. He is the Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Geert Lovink earned his master's degree in political science at the University of Amsterdam, and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne on the Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Queensland he became the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.

In his role as director of the Institute of Network Cultures, Geert Lovink has been an active organizer of conferences on media theory and issues currently being debated in the field of new media. At the Institute of Network Cultures, he worked on organizing four international conferences on new media in 2005 alone. These conferences were on the themes of 'Art and Politics of Netporn', 'alternatives offered by ICT for development', 'history of web design', and 'urban screens'

Daryl Copeland is an analyst, author and educator specializing in foreign policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management. His first book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations (Lynne Rienner Publishers) is now in its second printing, and he has written over 50 articles for both the scholarly and popular press.  Mr. Copeland is a peer reviewer for Canadian Foreign Policy, theInternational Journal, the University of Toronto Press and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.

From 1981 through 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia.  During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor ofBehind the Headlines, then Canada's international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his “tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession.”

Among his positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa, Mr. Copeland has worked as Senior Intelligence Analyst, South and Southeast Asia; Deputy Director for International Communications; Director for Southeast Asia; Senior Advisor, Public Diplomacy; Director of Strategic Communications Services; and, Senior Advisor, Strategic Policy and Planning . He is now Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto,  Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia's London Academy of Diplomacy  and in 2009 was appointed Research Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California.

For more information, see: www.guerrilladiplomacy.com

Craig Scott is Professor of Law at Osgoode and also Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Before joining Osgoode, he was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (2000), a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto (1989-2000), and Law Clerk to the former Chief Justice of Canada, Brian Dickson (1988-1989). Prior to serving at the Supreme Court of Canada, he attended the University of Oxford (BA in Jurisprudence) and London School of Economics (LLM) on a Rhodes Scholarship. He is also a graduate of McGill University (BA in Political Science) and Dalhousie University (LLB).

Professor Scott is currently a commissioner on the civil-society Comisión de Verdad (Truth Commission) in Honduras, in the context of which information sourced from Wikileaks plays a significant role. He has recently debated Daniel Fata of the Cohen Group on the topic of "Secrecy and Good Governance" in the pages of Global Brief magazine. Professor Scott is also Convening Editor of the quarterly journal Transnational Legal Theory, and Series Editor of the Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law. Currently on sabbatical leave from Osgoode, he was named a 2010 Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) Visiting Fellow, and has been doing research at the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao on transnational corporate accountability, transitional justice, and universalized criminal-law jurisdiction. His publications span a variety of international, comparative and transnational fields, and include the edited volume, Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart Publishing, 2001).

Robert Latham is director of the Centre for International and Security Studies and teaches Political Science at York University. His research is focused on technologies of border surveillance; critical theories of sovereignty, global governance, and migration; international communication; the politics of knowledge and large-scale monitoring systems. Among his publications are "Border Formations: Security and Subjectivity at the Border" (Citizenship Studies); Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security;  Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (co-edited with Saskia Sassen); and Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power.

Wikileaks, Diplomacy and the Public Interest

January 28, 2011 | Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, Ontario

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Co-Sponsored by the York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs.