January 22-26, 2024
The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective represents a coalition approach to studying privacy and surveillance in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. Our goals are to develop pedagogical resources and merge academic and public discourse on these topics. DRPC Privacy Week is the outcome of a 2023 CCCC Emerging Researcher Award.
Monday, January 22, 2024: “Teaching About Privacy in an Age of Generative AI“
4:00pm-5:00pm EST – Zoom
Utah State University: The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective Privacy Week 2024 presents, “Teaching about privacy in the age of generative AI”. This is a virtual panel hosted at Utah State. This event is organized by Dr. Chen Chen, sponsored by USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, USU Libraries, USU Department of English, Department of Journalism and Communication. The panel will feature: Dr. Calvin Pollak (University of Washington): “Navigating Publicity and Privacy: Genre-Based Technical Communication Pedagogy With, For, and Against ChatGPT”; Reed Hepler (Digital Initiatives Librarian and Archivist at College of Southern Idaho): “Deliberately Safeguarding Privacy and Confidentiality in the Era of Generative AI”; and, Dr. Atilla Hallsby (University of Minnesota): “We Live in Public: Teaching Publicity, Privacy, and Secrecy with OpenSecrets.org and Market Research Data.”
Tuesday, January 23, 2024: “Beyond the Panopticon: A Surveillance Student Project Showcase“
Asynchronous
The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective Privacy Week 2024 presents, “Beyond the Panopticon,” a showcase of student work from Dr. Noah Wason’s “Surveillance and Social Media” writing course at SUNY Binghamton University. This event has two components: an asynchronous showcase of select course projects and a Q+A panel with the students that created them.
Link to Post-Privacy Week Registration
Tuesday, January 23, 2024: Privacy, IP, and the Future of Free Inquiry on College Campuses: TAMUC Waters Library Workshop Series
12:00pm-1:00pm EST – Velma K. Waters Library (2nd Floor) at TAMUC and Zoom
The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective Privacy Week 2024 presents, “Privacy, IP, LBTQIA+ Communities, and the Future of Free Inquiry on College Campuses: TAMUC Waters Library Workshop Series.” A.P. Anderson (Research and Instruction Librarian), Zephyr Rankin (Marketing and Communications Librarian), and Dr. Gavin P. Johnson (Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of English) in conversation on issues related to the privacy and intellectual property of LGBTQIA+ communities and the future of free inquiry on college campuses. This conversation comes at a time when LGBTQIA+, especially trans, communities are surveilled and our stories and intellectual contributions are being targeted and removed from library collections across the country. Anderson, Rankin, and Johnson offer insight on the role technology plays in this discourse through a dialogue followed by a Q&A from the audience.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024: “Surveillance on the Sea“
10:00am-12:00pm EST – Admiral’s Hall at Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Zoom
The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective Privacy Week 2024 presents, “Surveillance on the Sea” in conjunction with a partnership at Massachusetts Maritime Academy and UMass Dartmouth. This hybrid event via Zoom originates from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and features Dr. Morgan Banville and Dr. Tim Walker who will discuss surveillance in the maritime industry. In particular, Dr. Walker will discuss “The Maritime Underground Railroad,” documenting methods the holding class used to keep enslaved people from achieving their freedom by sea. Timothy Walker (B.A., Hiram College, 1986; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University, 2001) is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he serves on the Executive Board of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, and as graduate faculty for the doctoral program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory. Walker is a contributing faculty member of the Munson Institute of Maritime Studies, and Director of the NEH “Landmarks in American History” workshops series, titled “Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad” (2011–2022). In 2020, Walker was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to serve on the Schooner Ernestina/Morrissey Advisory Board, where he is the chair of the Educational Programming Committee. This event is organized by Dr. Morgan Banville at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Thursday, January 25, 2024: “Black Feminism, Reproductive Justice, and Digital Surveillance”
4:30pm-5:30pm EST – Tawes Building Room 2115 at UMD and Zoom
University of Maryland–College Park: The @UMDEnglish Language, Writing, & Rhetoric Event Series in collaboration with the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective present: “Reproduction & Medical Technology in the Age of ‘Crisis’” a talk by Dr. Mali Collins. This talk investigates the rhetoric of “crisis” as it pertains to the “Black Maternal Health Crisis”, and the ways ‘crisis” navigates as a bull horn to necessitate the over medicalization and mis-/and overuse of reproductive technologies on and for black birthing people. Thursday 1/25 4:30-5:30pm Tawes Building Rm 2115 and via Zoom. This event is co-sponsored by UMD English and the UMD Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership.
Friday, January 26, 2024: “Keynote Session: Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics”
3:30pm-5:00pm EST – Zoom
The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective Privacy Week 2024 presents, “Keynote Session: Amplifying Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics.” This is a virtual event via Zoom that originates from Texas A&M University-Commerce. This keynote will feature Dr. Sarah Young, Lecturer and Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dr. Maria Novotny, Assistant Professor in the English department at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dr. Christina Cedillo, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. This event is organized by Dr. Charles Woods and Dr. Gavin Johnson at Texas A&M University Commerce.
Friday, February 16, 2024: “A Response to DRPC Privacy Week by Dr. Carmen Kynard”
Asynchronous
On Friday, February 16, 2024, DRPC GAR Michele Hearn, from Texas A&M University-Commerce, interviewed Dr. Carmen Kynard, from Texas Christian University, who offered a response to DRPC Privacy Week. In the interview, Dr. Kynard shares her opinion on why there is an interest among folks about learning about what ethical digital privacy looks like and imagines new projects, collaborations, and research trajectories for scholars studying privacy and surveillance in rhetoric and composition following DRPC Privacy Week.
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