Global 1968 Conference
18-19 April 105 Lawrence Hall, Colgate University
Professor Alfred McCoy
28 April (Monday) Golden Auditorium, 7 p.m.
“A Short History of Psychological Torture: Its Discovery, Propagation, Perfection, and Legalization”
Professor McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, and has authored fourteen books on politics in the Philippines, the drug trade, ethnicity and power in Southeast Asia, and most recently, on histories of interrogation and torture. His most recent book is A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the the War on Terror (NY: Metropolitan Books, 2006).