Rage Against the Machine: Torture, Bystanders, and the Failure of Journalism

June 2, 2011

The Robert H.. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture

"Rage Against the Machine: Torture, Bystanders, and the Failure of Journalism" with John Conroy: The Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., Memorial Human Rights Lecture series honors the life and work of Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., noted forensic pathologist and a founder of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program. Bio of speaker: John Conroy is the author of two books, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Globe, Mother Jones, Granta, the Village Voice, The Nation, and the Chicago Reader, and he is also the author of My Kind of Town, a play set against the backdrop of the Chicago police torture scandal, which he was instrumental in exposing. He now works as senior investigator for the Better Government Association, a Chicago-based, privately-funded, nonpartisan agency that investigates government misconduct, corruption, and waste. He lives in Oak Park with his wife and two children. This event is free and open to the public.

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