Hume Seminar Series: Can Human Rights Survive Technology?
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Virtual via Zoom; Link provided upon registration.
Open to students, faculty, and alumni from Virginia Tech and all other IC CAE institutions and CCI affiliations.
About the Event
While illuminating some of the most alarming facets of the effects of technology on contemporary global politics and society, this lecture highlights a few issues exemplifying the complex ways in which technology is both advancing and imperiling human rights in three key areas: privacy, advocacy, and warfare.
About the Speaker
Dr. Laura Belmonte
Laura A. Belmonte is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Professor of History at Virginia Tech. She received her B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Georgia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. She is the author of The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Penn, 2008); co-author of Global Americans: A Transnational U.S. History (Cengage, 2018); and editor of Speaking of America: Readings in U.S. History (2nd edition, Cengage, 2006).