John Henry Faulk Conference "The First Amendment in Cyberspace"

From: Dave Kinnaman <kinnaman[_at_]tenet.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 21:21:27 -0600 (CST)

Dear Colleagues,

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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Martha Norkunas
512-495-4515
m.norkunas[_at_]mail.utexas.edu
February 7, 1995

        AUSTIN, Texas--The First Amendment in Cyberspace will be the subject of the John Henry Faulk Conference on the First Amendment, to be held April 18, 1995 at The University of Texas at Austin.

        This second Faulk Conference, presented by UT's Center for American History, will explore topics such as the legal definition of free speech on the information superhighway, universal access to the Internet, censorship online, and new directions for information technologies in the twenty-first century.

        The conference will be held in the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center on the UT campus from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. and will be followed by a public reception at the Center for American History. The Conference Center is located at 26th Street and Red River, and the Center for American History is just south, in Sid Richardson Hall Unit 2.

        Participants for the two panels include Peter Lewis, who covers cyberspace for The New York Times; Katie Hafner, technology reporter for Newsweek and author of Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier; Mike Godwin, online counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation; James Love of the Taxpayers Assets Project; Gary Chapman, project coordinator for the University's LBJ School of Public Affairs' 21st Century Project and former director of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Jon Loehman, Division Manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company; Eugene Volokh, Professor of Copyright and Constitutional Law at UCLA Law School; and Frederick Williams, author of The People's Right to Know: Media, Democracy and the Information Highway.

        The Faulk Conference is presented in honor of Texas humorist John Henry Faulk, a victim of the blacklist during the McCarthy years. The first Faulk Conference, held in 1992, focused on freedom of the press.

        The Faulk Conference is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Center for American History at (512) 495-4515.

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Martha Norkunas
Center for American History
SRH 2.101
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712

Phone: 512-495-4515
FAX: 512-495-4542
internet address: m.norkunas[_at_]mail.utexas.edu

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