Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper:
Torture, Human Rights, and American Values
With Darius Rejali, Author of Torture and Democracy

Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 * 5:30-7 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Are there "clean" torture techniques? Do they work? How does a democracy, such as the United States, hold on to its human rights values in this dangerous world? Darius Rejali is an Iranian-born professor of political science at Reed College and the author of Torture and Democracy, winner of the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association. He has focused his research on the contemporary causes and consequences of torture, drawing on such diverse fields as philosophy and sociology, anthropology and political science. As a Carnegie Scholar, he was awarded a grant that has funded his most recent book, Approaches to Violence; he has also written Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran and many articles. The supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

On campus as a guest of the Institute for Advanced Study, Rejali will deliver a Branigin Lecture on "Torture, Democracy, and Our Future," Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 101. The event is free and open to the public.

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