Saturday
October 28, 2006 10 am
– 5 pm
Wetmore
Hall 21 Classic Avenue
at Spadina
New
College, University
of Toronto
Theme:
“National Security and the Treatment of Difference”
This conference for the past four years has attracted over
300 each year - scholars, students, activists, writers, lawyers, community
and cultural workers from a wide spectrum of interests. This year our
concern is with the threat to freedom of expression in the current war
on terror and the criminalization of people who are deemed
“different.” The conference is free and open to all. Lunch
will be provided. Please register well ahead of the date so we can
cater for lunch for everyone. To register email the programs secretary
at: nc.programs@utoronto.ca
or call 416-978-5404.
Some of the issues:
- democracy and state terrorism
- Muslim identity in Western construction, i.e. “moderate,”
“extremist,” “terrorist”
- national security, official racism and the threat to
difference
- the threat to the tenure of scholars and others who
speak out
10 am Keynote
Speaker: Henry Giroux (who had to leave the US due
to death threats against him and his family)
Currently the
Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster
University, and author, among others, of Beyond the Spectacle of
Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media and
Stormy Weather: Katrina and the politics of Disposability.
Topic: “Dirty
Democracy and State Terrorism: the Politics of the New Authoritarianism”
1 pm Panel
Discussion: Muslims, Terrorists and the Law Speakers: Abdullah Arain Amina Sherazee Rocco Galati
3.30 pm Keynote Speaker:
Ward Churchill (death threats, with attempts made to fire him, despite
tenured professorship at the University
of Colorado)
Former Chair, Ethnic
Studies, University of Colorado, and author, among others, of A
Little Matter of Genocide, Fantasies of the Master Race, and
Struggle for the Land
Topic: “Rules
for Thee but Not for Me”
Supported
by the Office of the Principal, New College, and APUS
