The New Dark Age

11 April 2011 — Statewatch

Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf
Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html

Institutions £30
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Students / Unwaged £5
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Programme

10.00 – 11.00 Welcome: Ann Singleton
University of Bristol & Co-Chair of Statewatch Trustees

Keynote 1: Gareth Peirce on ‘The war on terror’
Solicitor & author of ‘Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice’

Keynote 2: Tony Bunyan on ‘The state of Europe’
Director of Statewatch

11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00

Workshops (parallel)

1. Border controls, migration and asylum
2. Mass surveillance and technologies of control
3. The Stockholm Programme and post-Lisbon EU

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30

Workshops (parallel)

4. Criminalising communities and the policing of protest
5. Racism, Islamophobia and the far-right
6. Defending civil liberties: strategies of resistance

15.30 – 16.00 Break

16.00 – 17.30 Panel: Looking back, looking forward
Tony Bunyan
Director of Statewatch

Shami Chakrabarti
Director of Liberty

Courtenay Griffith QC
Garden Court Chambers

Morten Kjaerum
Director of EU Fundamental Rights Agency

Aidan White
Secretary-General, International Federation of Journalists (1987-2011)

Workshop speakers

Please note that this list is still being finalised.
We will provide a full list of speakers for each workshop in due course…

Heiner Busch Komitee fur Grundrechte und Demokratie
Deirdre Curtin University of Amsterdam
Staffan Dahloff Journalist, Denmark
Liz Fekete Institute of Race Relations
Nadine Finch Garden Court Chambers
Ben Hayes Statewatch
Paddy Hillyard Queen’s University Belfast
Walter van Holst European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi)
Vassilis Kardyis Deputy Ombudsman, Greece
Alessandro dal Lago University of Genoa
Jean Lambert MEP Green Party (UK)
Steve Peers University of Essex
Asim Qureshi CagePrisoners
Minas Samatas University of Crete
Vicki Sentas CAMPACC
Gavin Sullivan ECCHR (Berlin)
Eric Toepfer Burgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP (Germany)
Rui Tavares MEP GUE, Portugal (TBC)
Lorenzo Trucco ASGI (Italy)
Sophie in’t Veld MEP ALDE, Netherlands (TBC)
Frances Webber Institute of Race Relations
Steve Wright Leeds Metropolitan University
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