December 5, 2006 @ 10:54 am
Public Perception of Torture: News and Entertainment - December 7, 2006
Thurs., Dec. 7, 7:00 p.m.
$15 series, single admission $8.
Theresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Webcast: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
As one of a three-part series on “Humanity and Torture,” sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, this panel discusses the power of the media to shape our ideas about acceptability of torture. A short composite film of excerpts from Hollywood movies, TV dramas, documentaries, and news footage precedes the discussion.
Moderator, Martin Fisher, cultural critic. Panelists: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!; Eugene Jarecki, filmmaker, Why We Fight and The Trials of Henry Kissinger; Martha Diaz, Hip Hop Association; Scott Horton, partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School; David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Scott Horton, president, International League for Human Rights, and partner with the law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP New York, who has worked with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch. This series continues on January 24, 2007.
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