Seminar: Valg i USA, evighedskrige, tortur og droner (førerløse fly)

TIME: Friday, 9 November, 14 – 16

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K.

Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the word, this seminar presents a moral history of American power during the last quarter century.

TIME: Friday, 9 November, 14 – 16

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K.

Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the word, this seminar presents a moral history of American power during the last quarter century.

It tells the grim and compelling tale of the true final years of the American Century, as the United States passed from the violent certainties of the late Cold War, to the ideological confusions of the post-Cold War world, to the War on Terror in the post-9/11 world, where there has been a declaration of an unending war against an enemy positioned outside the bounds of all legality.

Mark Danner will present his analysis of this moral history in the context of current debates about torture and drones, and inflected by the November 6 American presidential election.

Speakers:
– Mark Danner, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
– Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS
– Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Programme:

14.00-14.05: Introduction; Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS

14.05-14.50: The US Elections and the Forever War – Torture, Drones and the Age of Frozen Scandal; Mark Danner, Professor, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

14.50-15.05: Coffee Break

15.05-15.15: Discussant; Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Senior Researcher, DIIS

15.15-16.00: Discussion

Chair: Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and use the online registration form on the website no later than Thursday, 8 November at 12 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.