Utica native and prominent American writer and educator Mark Danner will present a lecture, “Obama, Torture and Human Rights,” on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel, followed by a book signing. The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty office and is free and open to the public.
Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades, covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East, among other stories. He has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, and about violations of human rights during that time. His books include Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), and Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004).
Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is also professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities at Bard College.
Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades, covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East, among other stories. He has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, and about violations of human rights during that time. His books include Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), and Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004).
Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is also professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities at Bard College.
