Forthcoming SIRP Seminar: "Assange, Snowden and the Future of the Security State"

"Assange, Snowden and the Future of the Security State"

Professor Gavin MacFadyen Director the Centre for Investigative Journalism

18:00,3rd October, 2013

Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street

The Security and International Relations Programme is delighted to welcome Professor MacFadyen who will speak on privacy, journalists source protection, the growth of the secret police, the role of the mainstream media and the fight for the Internet.

 

Professor Gavin MacFadyen is the Director the Centre forInvestigative Journalism at City University in London and a television Producer and Director.

He was involved in the Amnesty Award winning Channel 4 Dispatches programme based on the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs and has spoken publicly on the subject of Transparency, Accountability and whistle-blowing.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism has trained over 1000 journalists and graduate students and has conducted training programmes in over 20 countries including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and numerous international conferences.

CIJ has recently established Britain’s first Whistle Blowers organisation to encourage more truth telling insiders to inform the public of their concerns with safety. It was this work which brought him into contact with Julian Assange in 2007

 

For further information please contact Dr Aidan Hehir@wmin.ac.uk

 

UPCOMING ROUNDTABLE ON SYRIA...

UNDERSTANDING THE SYRIAN CRISIS

September 26th, 18:00, Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street

 

Since March 2011 the crisis in Syria has continued largely unabated and dominated the international political agenda. This roundtable brings together an array of experts from the Department of Politics and International Relations to discuss various aspects of the crisis (see speakers and topics below) and its implications for contemporary, and future, international relations. All are welcome.

 

"Neither Washington nor Moscow, neither Riyadh nor Tehran: What happened to the Syrian revolution?"

Dr James Allinson (Lecturer in International Relations)

"We Must (Not) Act: Politics of Imperialism and Humanitarianism"

Dr Dibyesh Anand (Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Reader in International Relations)


"Lessons From Africa"
Dr Hannah Cross (Lecturer in International Relations)

"Russia and Syria"

Professor Roland Dannreuther (Dean of School and Professor of International Relations)

"Sectarian Narratives and the Escalation of the Conflict"

Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Reader in Politics)

"The Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect After Syria"

Dr Aidan Hehir (Reader in International Relations and Director of the Security and International Relations Programme)

"Iran, Syria and Lebanon"

Dr Farhang Morady (Senior Lecturer in Globalization and Development)