Keep Safe: How to Keep People, Data, & Archives Safe in an Extremist Era

This 90-minute workshop is led by Wesley Hogan and Duke IT experts, and is intended to share tools with scholars, researchers, archivists, and students.

About the workshop:
"When we started interviewing reproductive care physicians after the overturn of Roe v Wade in 2022, we knew that anti-abortion state attorney generals might subpoena these interviews. We did not want to put our narrators at additional legal or physical risk. Yet our physician narrators were determined: we needed to document the specific ways in which state legislators were tying doctors' hands behind their back. Over the last two years - and the last three months in particular - we have developed protocols, tools, and clarity about how to collect, preserve, and protect such material from bad-actor subpoena, sabotage, and/or destruction. Alongside of Duke's IT Security team, we have collectively developed these tools with others who document vulnerable communities (undocumented people, formerly incarcerated people, LGBTQ+, youth).

We hope not only to share what we've learned with participants, but learn together from others' experiences."

NOTE: Please do not bring "smart" watches or similar devices to the workshop. We will ask people to turn their phones off. Breakfast will be served.

Please RSVP at https://duke.is/keep-safe-rsvp.