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<br><br>Mark Danner at Stanford Wed, Thurs. You might remember Danner's milestone articles in the New York Review of Books a year ago<br><br>"US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites" <title></title><style>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/</a></p><br>and <br><br>"The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means"<br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/"></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/30/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/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Or you might have heard about Danner's recent book "Stripping Bare the
Body: Politics, Violence, War"</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.markdanner.com/books/show/21">http://www.markdanner.com/books/show/21</a></p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">He's delivering two lectures on <strong>"Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception</strong>". <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I hope a lot of people can come. Show the kids that no, they're not crazy, and no, torture is not OK.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="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/">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/</a></p>
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Lecture 1: “Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional
Dictatorship, Torture and Us”<br>
Wednesday, April 14, 2010<br>
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm<br>
Building 320, Room 105</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>Lecture 1 Discussion Seminar<br>
Commentators: Eric Posner (Law, University of Chicago) and Colonel
Steven Kleinman (Senior Intelligence Officer U.S. Air Force,
1985-present)<br>
Thursday, April 15, 2010<br>
10:00 am – 12:00 pm<br>
Landau Economics Building, SIEPR A<BR>
<br><BR>Lecture 2: “Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the
War Without End”<br>
Thursday, April 15, 2010<br>
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm<br>
Building 320, Room 105<BR>
<br><BR>Lecture 2 Discussion Seminar<br>
Elaine Scarry (Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard)<br>
Stephen Holmes (Law, NYU)<br>
Friday, April 16, 2010<br>
10:00 am – 12:00 pm<br>
Landau Economics Building, SIEPR A<BR><br><BR>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.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Here's more information from the co-sponsor, the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society</p><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/">http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethics-events/tanner-lectures/</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If you know anyone who might be a financial contributor to Stanford, tell them that<br></p>the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society has become a kind of <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">escrow fund for contributors who wish to protest Stanford's tolerance of the war <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">criminal Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Please ask your friend to divert their contributions</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">from the Stanford General Fund to the McCoy Center, and to tell Stanford exactly why <br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">they are doing so.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Brian<br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/apr/30/the-red-cross-torture-report-what-it-means/"><br></a></p>
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