“NSA Spying and the Constitution” and recent revelations regarding cell phone data gathering will be the topic of the next World Affairs Council lecture, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center.
Mark Gibney, Belk Distinguished Professor in Humanities and professor of political science at UNC Asheville, will present this lecture. Gibney’s most recent publications include Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations: Alternative Judgments, co-edited with Wouter Vandenhole (Routledge, 2014), and Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films (Paradigm, 2013). Gibney developed the Political Terror Scale, an often used and cited online accounting of every nation’s human rights record. He was named the nation’s Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights by the American Political Science Association in 2011, and he is a past winner of the Human Rights Coalition of North Carolina’s International Human Rights Award.
The lecture is sponsored by the WNC chapter of the World Affairs Council, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNC Asheville, and the university’s Department of Political Science.
Admission to World Affairs Council presentations at UNC Asheville is $10 for the public; free to members of the World Affairs Council and UNC Asheville students. For more information, visit olliasheville.com/special-programs#world-affairs-council or call 828.251.6140.