Public Lecture
These events discuss the findings of a European Commission-funded project, DETECTOR.
Language: English Only
Registration: Not required
"Privacy, Intrusion and the Detection of Terrorism" <Mon. 31st October, 2011>
Lecturer:
Tom Sorell, John Ferguson Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham
Date : Monday 31st October, 2011
Time : 16:30 - 18:00,
Venue: Room 604, Bldg.11, Waseda University
Professor Sorell has published widely in philosophy, and has practical experience in human rights. Before coming to Birmingham he was co-director of the Human Rights Centre at Essex University. His research interests include the relationship between moral theory and human rights, failures of application of moral theory, and most areas of applied ethics and other fields in philosophy. He has also worked as a practitioner in business and human rights. He is a member of the Amnesty International (UK) Business Section and was a member of the UK Forum on Genetics and Insurance. His major publications include Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987); (with John Hendry) Business Ethics (1994); Moral Theory and Anomaly (1999); (Ed) Health Care, Ethics, and Insurance (1998). Professor Sorell studied at McGill University as an undergraduate and received both the BPhil and the DPhil at Oxford, where he was a Canada Council, Quebec Government and Graduate Scholar at Balliol. He has taught at Oxford, Essex and the Open University. In 1996-97 he was Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University.
"Profiling in Counter-Terrorism " <Wed. 2nd November, 2011>
Lecturer:
Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou, Research Fellow, DETECTER project.
Date : Wednesday 2nd November
Time : 16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Room 501, Bldg.11, Waseda University
From 2009-10 Katerina Hadjimatheou was a Part-Time Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, where she also completed her PhD in 2009. Previously, she worked as a researcher for the European Commission's Group of Policy Advisors' Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, for the Institute of Public Policy Research's Migration, Culture, and Communities Team, and for the Houses of Parliament.
Both of these events have been organized by the European Union Institute in Japan at Waseda University, in partnership with Birmingham University, and will be moderated by Dr. Paul Bacon, Deputy Director of the Institute.