The first symposium sponsored by the Global Studies Initiative, titled “Torture and the Human Body,” illustrated what can happen when an issue of global significance is examined at great length and depth and in an interdisciplinary way with renowned experts on the subject, faculty and student panelists, and input from an audience that included the general public. More...
Whitman’s recent Symposium on Torture and the Human Body, sponsored by the Global Studies Initiative, was supposed to be a three-hour symposium. But it went longer – close to four hours, as noted authors on the subject, and Whitman student panelists and the general public continued on, not ready to end a significant intellectual exploration and discussion. More...