Global Studies Initiative Symposium: "Torture and the Human Body"

Whitman College's Global Studies Initiative sponsored its inaugural symposium on Torture and the Human Body on Saturday, Feb. 28.

Torture has emerged as a contemporary issue of great controversy in the war on terror, but it has a much longer and less visible history that has been largely forgotten.

The symposium included presentations by professors and authors Darius Rejali, Stephanie Athey and Mark Danner.

Rejali, professor of political science, Reed College, is the author of Democracy and Torture (Princeton University Press, 2007). Athey, associate professor of English, Lasell College, has published articles on representations of torture. Danner is an acclaimed journalist and contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books who also hold professorships at Bard College and The University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York Review of Books, 2004).

For more information: http://www.whitman.edu/content/global-studies

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