Inspired by this year’s First-Year Seminar common book “Little Brother,” the topic will be personal privacy, surveillance, and counter terrorism monitoring systems.  HPU students, faculty, staff and interested community members are welcome to come and observe and participate in this event.  Speeches from the audience and discussion will be held after the conclusion of formal speeches.

Participating faculty include:

• Jarod Buna, International Studies
• Matt LoPresti, Philosophy
• Serge Marek, Geography

The Mixed Plate Debate is a series featuring students and faculty from multiple disciplines debating on topics relevant to the HPU community.

For more information on Mixed Plate Debates or future topic suggestions, contact Rose Helens-Hart, Director of Debate at (808) 544-9378 or rhelens@hpu.edu. Also see http://www.hpu.edu/debate for information about the HPU Debate Team.

Image courtesy of Jonathan McIntosh on Flickr via a Creative Commons license.

Erping Zhang, Director of Association for Asian Research in New York City, will examine the role of the Internet in China’s social change today, especially in light of the government’s strive to censor certain websites and the Chinese netizens’ effort to counter the censorship. He will explain why Beijing is so concerned with information control on the Internet and what are the available solutions to the censorship.

Zhang’s research focuses on social change, political economy, and human rights in China. He has also spoken for the rights of Falun Gong and written on Internet censorship in China. He graduated from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Contact Professor Carlos Juarez at cjuarez@hpu.edu for more information.

Please join us for his address followed by a question and answer period in the Warmer Auditorium on Thursday, November 19th from 6-7:30pm. Everybody is welcome.

For more information contact Dr. Allison Gough, chair of the Common Book Committee, at agough@hpu.edu