Would you hit it? *(by which I mean would you go to this conference?). The title is Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy and check out the list of speakers. Oh wait a minute... are there just two, 2, dos, deux women listed out of 27 (fyi 7.4%)?
The conference boldly states and asks:
An answer (in the form of action) is simple. Form must meet function, means must match ends or else these questions strike me as terribly hollow. Start at the start and then ask some questions.
The conference boldly states and asks:
There is no question that the free access to knowledge and information are the bedrock of all democratic societies, yet no democratic society can function without limits on what can be known, what ought to be kept confidential and what must remain secret. The tension among these competing ends is ever present and continuously raises questions about the legitimacy of limits. What limits are necessary to safe guard and protect a democratic polity? What limits undermine it?
An answer (in the form of action) is simple. Form must meet function, means must match ends or else these questions strike me as terribly hollow. Start at the start and then ask some questions.
I went, actually, in February. Though I didn't actually know day two'd been issued a snow-check.
My genuine question is this: who should have been on those panels? Who should be?
My genuine question is: How can this conference interrogate the limits of "knowledge" without discussing the historical exclusion of female/women's knowledge from what counts, or at least the defining of such knowledge as private, rather than public, and not of importance to democracy or government more generally?