Security and Insecurity: An Inquiry into U.S. Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing World
Reed began its first classes in 1911. Committed to intellectual rigor and meritocracy; rejecting intercollegiate sports and fraternal societies; and imbued with a sense of academic freedom and nonconformity, Reed has for the past 100 years served as a groundbreaking model of the liberal arts while consistently preparing its graduates to be involved, with both independence of mind and pragmatism of thought, in the world around them.
This year’s Public Policy Lecture Series—honoring Reed’s centennial—addresses the connections and tensions between academia and government service, exploring the sometimes uneasy relationship between these interrelated traditions through a set of perspectives on the past, present, and future of U.S. national security policy.
All events are free and open to the public.
A Conversation with Joshua E.S. Phillips and Darius Rejali
Thursday, February 16
7:30–9 p.m.
Psychology 105
Joshua E.S. Phillips ’96, author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture has reported from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other publications. His radio features have been broadcast on NPR and the BBC. Phillips is the recipient of a Heywood Broun Award and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism for his American Radio Works documentary, “What Killed Sergeant Gray.”
Darius Rejali, professor and chair of political science at Reed College, is a nationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. He is the author of Torture and Democracy, an examination of the use of torture by democracies in the 20th century. The book won the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association and the 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide for the best non-fiction work in English that addresses the causes of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The lecture, sponsored by the David Robinson Memorial Fund for Human Rights and Reed’s political science department, is free and open to the public.