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Ethics and The War on Terror: Event At University of Leicester

Event on Thursday 25th September at 5-6pm in the Bennett Lecture Theatre One at the University of Leicester

Human rights lawyer Phil Shiner is to give a public lecture at the University of Leicester entitled: 'The UK Torture Team: British Use of Coercive Interrogation Techniques from Northern Ireland to Iraq'.

His lecture, on Thursday 25th September, is a keynote talk in a seminar which is one of the final events in a series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, entitled 'Ethics and the War on Terror: Politics, Multiculturalism and Media'.

The series has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to ethical dimensions of the war on terror and this seminar will cover the three main themes of the series: politics, multiculturalism and media. It involves policy-related and practitioner participants as well as academics and research students

The ESRC research seminar series 'Ethics and the War on Terror: Politics, Multiculturalism, and Media' is coordinated by Gillian Youngs (University of Leicester), Simon Caney (University of Oxford) and Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham).

The talk by human rights lawyer Phil Shiner takes place on Thursday 25th September at 5-6pm in the Bennett Lecture Theatre One at the University of Leicester. It is hosted by the Department of Media and Communication, and is open to the public and free of charge.