World Affairs Council of Western North Carolina
Presents:
“NSA Spying and the Constitution”
Mark Gibney – Dept. of Political Science at UNCA
The development and expansion of technology and its impact on the culture and society has always been a problem and presented a conundrum for political power and public policy – especially in democracies. Most of us have our favorite stories and inventions where government are “always catching up” or having to adapt to new technology. Think: the printing press, the steamboat, the minnieball, telegraphy, ad infinitum.
What can we make of recent revelations about cell phone data gathering in the service of national security and what it means constitutionally.
Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at UNC-Asheville. His most recent book projects include: The Sage Handbook of Human Rights (Sage, forthcoming), Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations: Alternative Judgments (Routledge, 2014) and Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films (Paradigm, 2013) (www.watchinghumanrights.com). Gibney recently he served as a juror at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, the largest human rights film festival in the world.
Co Sponsored by The Department of Political Science, and the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at UNCA.
Tuesday, 6 May
7:30 PM
Manheimer Room
Reuter Center
UNCA
No admission charge to WAC members or UNC-A students. All others $10.00
For further information
gpeery@mhu.edu
828-242-6380
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