{"id":1843,"date":"2023-11-07T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=1843"},"modified":"2023-11-24T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T13:06:46","slug":"using-data-science-methods-to-explore-the-history-and-future-of-state-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/using-data-science-methods-to-explore-the-history-and-future-of-state-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Data Science Methods to Explore the History, and Future, of State Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"hands-on-history-lecture-with-matthew-connelly-columbia-university-university-of-cambridge\"\n    >\nHands on History lecture with Matthew Connelly, Columbia University\/University of Cambridge.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For its first one hundred and fifty years, the U.S. government had relatively few secrets, and subsidized the free flow of information to ensure democratic accountability. But all that changed after Pearl Harbor, with the rise of the dark state. The last two decades have witnessed particularly dramatic growth in government secrecy, at the same time that declassification has all but collapsed. Now that so much is secret, it has become all but impossible to protect truly dangerous information. Connelly explores the policies and practices that gave rise to the current crisis, above all presidents\u2019 determination to preserve sovereign power over \u201cnational security information.\u201d The digital archiving methods that were supposed to stop unauthorized leaks instead gave rise to Wikileaks, and the wholesale destruction of the documentary record has made it all but impossible even for historians to hold public officials to account. But new data science methods now make it possible to systematically analyze patterns and anomalies in state secrecy, and show not only what the government did not want us to know, but why.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"The History and Future of Official Secrecy\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-Connelly.png\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-Connelly-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-Connelly-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-Connelly-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-Connelly.png 1377w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 16\/9; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Connelly <\/strong>is a professor of international and global history at Columbia University, and director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. Connelly is also the principal investigator of History Lab, a project that uses data science to analyze state secrecy. His publications include <em>A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria&#8217;s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era<\/em>, <em>Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population<\/em>, and <em>The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America\u2019s Top Secrets<\/em>. 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