Lecture: Lisa Hajjar
Saturday, November 2, 2 pm
Vollum lecture hall
This event is open to the public.
"Classified Memories: Trying to Try Terror Suspects Who Were Tortured by the CIA" Lisa Hajjar is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and writing focus on law and legality, war and conflict, human rights, and torture. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005) and Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science (Routledge, 2008). She serves on the editorial committees of Jadaliyya, Middle East Report and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is currently finishing a book about anti-torture lawyering in the United States. Cosponsored by the Public Policy Lecture Series and the department of anthropology. More information on related events is available online at this site.
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Submitted by Brittney Corrigan-McElroy.
Posted on Oct 1, 2013