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“Bars and Digits: Liberal Democracy in the Digital Age of Security”

September 19, 2013
8:00PM - 9:30PM
352 Drinko Hall, 55 W. 12th Ave.

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Add to Calendar 2013-09-19 20:00:00 2013-09-19 21:30:00 “Bars and Digits: Liberal Democracy in the Digital Age of Security” Event Host: Humanities Institute Bernard Harcourt, Law and Political Science, University of Chicago, will give a lecture titled "Bars and Digits: Liberal Democracy in the Digital Age of Security".This lecture will explore one of the most fundamental paradoxes of Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century: How is it that those liberal democracies that pride themselves on individual liberty and economic liberalism are the very same ones that hold the world record for persons detained behind bars and engage in forms of digital surveillance that would typically be associated with authoritarian regimes?For more info, visit huminst.osu.edu. 352 Drinko Hall, 55 W. 12th Ave. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Event Host: Humanities Institute


Bernard Harcourt, Law and Political Science, University of Chicago, will give a lecture titled "Bars and Digits: Liberal Democracy in the Digital Age of Security".

This lecture will explore one of the most fundamental paradoxes of Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century: How is it that those liberal democracies that pride themselves on individual liberty and economic liberalism are the very same ones that hold the world record for persons detained behind bars and engage in forms of digital surveillance that would typically be associated with authoritarian regimes?

For more info, visit huminst.osu.edu.

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