[GPSCC-chat] "Torture and the Forever War" at Stanford Wed-Fri

[Brian Good]

Mark Danner at Stanford Wed, Thurs.  You might remember Danner's milestone articles in the New York Review of Books a year ago

"US Torture:  Voices from the Black Sites"  
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/
and     

"The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/30/the-red-cross-torture-report-what-it-means/

Or you might have heard about Danner's recent book "Stripping Bare the 
Body: Politics, Violence, War"
http://www.markdanner.com/books/show/21


He's delivering two lectures on "Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception".   
I hope a lot of people can come.  Show the kids that no, they're not crazy, and no, torture is not OK.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2010/03/17/2010-tanner-lectures-at-stanford-mark-danner-on-torture-and-the-forever-war/

 


Lecture 1: “Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional 
Dictatorship, Torture and Us”

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Building 320, Room 105

Lecture 1 Discussion Seminar

Commentators: Eric Posner (Law, University of Chicago) and Colonel 
Steven Kleinman (Senior Intelligence Officer U.S. Air Force, 
1985-present)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Landau Economics Building, SIEPR A



Lecture 2: “Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the
 War Without End”

Thursday, April 15, 2010

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Building 320, Room 105



Lecture 2 Discussion Seminar

Elaine Scarry (Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard)

Stephen Holmes (Law, NYU)

Friday, April 16, 2010

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Landau Economics Building, SIEPR A


Bld 320 is the corner of the Quad that's 
toward the ocean and toward Menlo Park.  The Landau building is a new 
one on Galvez (extension of Embarcadero) next to Memorial Auditorium.  
This is the corner where protestors blocked Bush from speaking at the 
Hoover Institution in April 2006.





Here's more information from the co-sponsor, the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society

http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/
If you know anyone who might be a financial contributor to Stanford, tell them that
the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society has become a kind of 
escrow fund for contributors who wish to protest Stanford's tolerance of the war 
criminal Dr. Condoleezza Rice.  Please ask your friend to divert their contributionsfrom the Stanford General Fund to the McCoy Center, and to tell Stanford exactly why 
they are doing so.

Brian


















 		 	   		  
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