A discussion of several projects promoting ethics and activism with technology. Speakers include Alexa Koenig (UC Berkeley Human Rights Center), Anat Biletzki (B’Tselem), Peter Manning (Northeastern) and members of the Charlie Hebdo Archives at Harvard University. CILSE.

The theme will be issues surrounding the dissemination and preservation of rare and recent materials, archiving of human rights and activism by academic institutions, perils and pitfalls of bias and eye-witness testimony.

Alexa Koenig (Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley Law School (winner of 2015 McArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) will discuss students who are aiding in verifying videos sent out of conflict zones in Syria and developing international standards of authenticity that may be used in international courts of law with regard to war crimes; Anat Biletzki (Albert Schweizer Professor, Quinnipiac University), former director of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories will describe their activities with technology in the West Bank in the 1990s; Peter Manning (Elmer V.H. an Eileen M. Brooks Chair in Policing, Northeastern University) will discuss ethnomethodological, sociological and technological aspects of policing in conflict zones, including the USA and Northern Ireland.

We will also hear from members of the Charlie Hebdo archives project at Harvard University (http://cahl.io/). CILSE.