The clash between the war on terrorism and traditional civil liberties will be examined by distinguished scholars at this year's University of Colorado at Boulder Morris Colloquium on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12.
"Balancing Liberty and Security After 9/11" coincides with the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. All colloquium events are free and open to the public.
The first session, "Civil Liberties Challenges After 9/11," will take place in Old Main Chapel on Sept. 11 at 5 p.m.
On Sept. 12, speakers will address the topics of "Detentions and Deportations" from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., "The Idea of the Enemy" from 10:45 a.m. to noon and "Homeland Insecurity" from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. From 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., a closing roundtable discussion on "Balancing Liberty and Security" will take place. All the Sept. 12 sessions will be held in the British Studies Center on the fifth floor of Norlin Library.
A variety of viewpoints and disciplines will be represented in the discussions. Sept. 11 speakers will include Ruth Wedgwood, Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University and member of the United Nations Committee on Human Rights, and Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a public interest litigation organization in New York City.
The Sept. 12 sessions will feature CU-Boulder professors Juliet Gilbert of law and Claudia Mills of philosophy. Angelia Means, a professor of government at Dartmouth College who has worked with The Hague Tribunal investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, also will speak. Other speakers include the University of Denver's Alan Gilbert, professor of political science, and David Goldfischer, director of the Homeland Security Studies Program, as well as Boulder attorney Adam Chase.
The topic of the 2003 conference would have been of special interest to the late CU-Boulder philosophy Professor Bertram Morris, the colloquium's namesake. Morris was a distinguished scholar, teacher and community member who was noted for his resistance during the McCarthy era. A reception in his honor is the final event of the conference, to be held Sept. 12 at 4 p.m.
Because of the broad significance of its topic, this year's Morris Colloquium is supported not only by the philosophy department and Center for Values and Social Policy but also by the Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment, Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law.
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