Torture After 9/11

The Legal and Ethical Implications of Torture in the New Age of Terrorism

This international symposium will bring together scholars from various disciplines, including law and ethics; human rights workers and intelligence agents; police officers and others who work in counter-terrorism; and those with direct experience of torture, to consider the new meanings we attach to torture in an age of apocalyptic violence. Several plenary sessions will be accompanied by more focused panels on "Torture and the Law," "Ethical Issues of Torture," "Torture as a Means of Counterterrorism: Interrogation Practices in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict," "Torture during Historical Crisis: The Use of Torture in the Lincoln Administration and in the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians," "Police Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects After 9/11: Evolving Policies," "The Science and Medicalization of Torture: From Nicaragua to South Africa, the Soviet Union, and China," "'Torture as an Instrument of Racism: Violence Against Oppressed and Indigenous Peoples," "The Economics of the Torture Industry," The School of the Americas in Georgia," and "Women and Terrorism: The Role of Torture."

 

Speakers include:

Dianna Ortiz, Executive director, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC), Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard University School of Law; Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch; Richard Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, Baruch and the Graduate Center, CUNY; Michael Posner, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.; Bill Cowan, Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col.; Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director Amnesty International; Mia Bloom; Isaac Herzog, J.S.D Candidate, Columbia University School of Law; Itai Sneh, Professor, John Jay College; Maki Haberfeld, Professor, John Jay College; Allen Keller, M.D., Director, Bellevue/NYU Center for Survivors of Torture; Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., Harvard Medical School; Louis Najarian M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine; Mark Neely, McCabe Greer Professor, Penn State University; Lesley Gill, Department of Anthropology, American University; Peter Landesman, novelist, journalist, and painter; Dalshika Jamaya, journalist, Associated Press.; Michael S. Moore, Professor, co-director, Program in Law and Philosophy, College of Law, University of Illinois; Brigitte Nacos, Adjunct Professor, Political Science, Columbia University; Harvey Silverglate, criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, author; William Heffernan, Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College; Elaine Scarry, Professor, Harvard University.; John Hubbard, Director of Research, Center for Victims of Torture; Jennifer Harbury, lawyer, human rights activist and author; Kelly McKinney, College/cuny, dept of psychology; David C. Lee, M.D., Medical Toxicologist and Consultant , Long Island Poison Control Center

Cosponsored by the Center on Terrorism and Public Safety, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and Continuing Education and Public Programs, CUNY Graduate Center, In cooperation with WBAI radio and the Community Resource Network of the CUNY School of Law.

3461 - Friday, October 24 9am-5:30pm $50; $20 students; $245 attorneys $70 NON-profit, Continuing Legal Education available

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