CarnegieCouncil.org EVENT ALERT May 26, 2005 ----------------------------------------------- MODERATED PANEL DISCUSSION: "The Question of Torture" http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/page.php/prmID/284 The Carnegie Council, The New York Public Library, and "The New York Review of Books" invite you to attend a panel discussion on the question of torture, featuring Mark Danner, Mark Bowden, Elaine Scarry, and Darius Rejali (see details below). DATE: Wednesday, June 1 TIME: 7:00-9:00 PM VENUE: New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum. For map and directions, go to: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/admin/grdfloor.html ATTENDANCE DETAILS: Tickets are $10; to sign up, call 212/868-4444 or go to: www.smarttix.com NOTE: A limited number of free tickets are available for Carnegie Council members and friends, limit of two per person. To register, please email Rebecca Kraley at rkraley@cceia.org. ****************************** PANELISTS: * MARK DANNER, author of "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror" http://www.markdanner.com/ * MARK BOWDEN, "Atlantic Monthly" contributor and author of "Black Hawk Down" http://www.theatlantic.com/about/people/mbbio.htm * ELAINE SCARRY, author of "The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World" http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~english/people/facultyprofiles.html * DARIUS REJALI, author of the forthcoming "Torture and Democracy" http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/rejali/index.html MODERATED BY: ARYEH NEIER, president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch http://www.soros.org/about/bios/b_neier Panelists will address questions such as: * What is torture? Are any measures to coerce information from a reluctant captive ever appropriate? * What "laws" should govern the treatment of captives? * Should a war on non-state terrorists have different rules than those of a so-called "conventional war"? * What is the larger significance of the recent American torture scandals, and who is ultimately to blame? * To what extent is torture, especially during war, inevitable? And if it is inevitable, how can a nation control it? SEE ALSO: Related Carnegie Council Resources * The Moral Implications of Torture (Web exclusive) http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5086 * America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power (Carnegie Council-Eckerd College Lecture) http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/5133 Please feel free to pass on this notice to a friend or colleague. I look forward to seeing some of you on June 1st. ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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