2008-09-25: Ben O'Loughlin to speak at ESRC Seminar on 'Ethics and the War on Terror'

On 25-26 September the University of Leicester is hosting an ESRC Research Seminar Series: Ethics and the War on Terror: Politics, Multiculturalism and Media. Ben O'Loughlin will present a new paper co-authored with Giles Moss (University of Leeds) entitled, Media, Democracy, Ethics: Al-Jazeera as a moment in the re-assembly of a democratic public? The event is organised by Gillian Youngs (University of Leicester) and will include a plenary lecture by human rights lawyer Phil Shiner entitled: ‘The UK Torture Team: British Use of Coercive Interrogation Techniques from Northern Ireland to Iraq’.