PUBLIC LECTURE: Fear of Annihilation

The Institute of Advanced Studies presents a series of three lectures by distinguished Australians, advocating for further discussion of the Australian human rights landscape.

9/11 left the world irrevocably changed. One thing is certain: we live in a more fearful world.

The first lecture in the series coincides with a world-wide month of commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the death of Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer, environmentalist, human rights activist and political leader of the Ogoni, an ethnic minority occupying Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region. Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian Government in November 1995.

Biographical note:

Dr Carmen Lawrence MP has long held an interest in the use of fear in developing public policy. This lecture is one of four she presented earlier this year at the Australian National University in Canberra, where she spoke about our fear of crime, our fear of the ‘the other’ and our fear of terrorism. Dr Lawrence is the Member for Fremantle and a former West Australian premier. In 2003, she was elected by the first popular ballot of ALP members as President of the Australian Labor Party. An active and vocal peace campaigner, speaking at rallies and forums around the country, she also speaks and writes regularly about refugee policy and democratic reform.

This event is supported by the International Commission of Jurists (WA Branch), International PEN, and the Centre for African Studies and the Faculty of Law at The University of Western Australia.

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