Welcome back. Thank you so much. As i mentioned in my introductory remarks, there are so many fascinating issues surrounding surveillance, intelligence, new technologies that if we were to cover them all with the passion of the sort you just saw, this conference would last approximately three weeks, and because even i have limits to my capacity to focus for that long, we have for the last couple of years been inviting scholars and activists to present shorter talks but focus very tightly on a single subject and present work or analysis they have been doing in a way that allows us to get the sense of the range of hard questions we face as citizens and policy makers. Our morning block of talks covers issues from facial recognition to social media surveillance to the global war on encryption on various fronts. I will very quickly introduce the speakers. If you want fuller biographies, look to the conference website on cato. Org. You will find in addition to the agenda, links on the speake
the walters family letters are here at the national postal museum, and they are really at the heart of this book. and one of the wonderful things about the way that they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in to a period 160 years ago and help you understand the centrality of the written word, particularly at a time when families are frequently separated for the first time and they have provided the information that you need to not only understand the family networks, but the community networks and the postal network and what s happening geopolitically in the united states during the civil war. so really looking forward to this talk. lynn heidelberg is a curator here at the smithsonian national postal museum. she s specializes in the history of u.s. postal service and has published essays and created several exhibits, specifically in this case on military mail, including mail call, which you can visit out in the gallery floor as well as my fellow sold
now it is my distinct pleasure to introduce this book and its editors. tom and lynn. the walters family letters are here at the national postal museum, and they are really at the heart of this book. and one of the wonderful things about the way that they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in to a period 160 years ago and help you understand the centrality of the written word, particularly at a time when families are frequently separated for the first time and they have provided the information that you need to not only understand the family networks, but the community networks and the postal network and what s happening geopolitically in the united states during the civil war. so really looking forward to this talk. lynn heidelberg is a curator here at the smithsonian national postal museum. she s specializes in the history of u.s. postal service and has published essays and created several exhibits, specifically in this case on military mail, includ
now it is my distinct pleasure to introduce this book and its editors. tom and lynn. the walters family letters are here at the national postal museum, and they are really at the heart of this book. and one of the wonderful things about the way that they have organized this book is that the letters really pull you in to a period 160 years ago and help you understand the centrality of the written word, particularly at a time when families are frequently separated for the first time and they have provided the information that you need to not only understand the family networks, but the community networks and the postal network and what s happening geopolitically in the united states during the civil war. so really looking forward to this talk. lynn heidelberg is a curator here at the smithsonian national postal museum. she s specializes in the history of u.s. postal service and has published essays and created several exhibits, specifically in this case on military mail, includ
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