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AUDIO: Amnesty Lecture 2005: Michael Ignatieff speaks at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

category dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | feature author Monday January 17, 2005 20:36author by kevin - imc éire Report this post to the editors

Listen to the MP3 recordings of the lecture, and the Q + A session afterwards.

A recording of the 2005 Amnesty Lecture at Trinity College Dublin which took place on Thursday January 13th, is now available for download. The lecture was entitled "American Exceptionalism & Human Rights" and was given by Professor Michael Ignatieff. Lecture MP3 Here. Q&A MP3 Here

A comprehensive biography of Michael Ignatieff is available here.

In this lecture in the Edmund Burke Theatre in Trinity College Dublin, Ignatieff deals with what he terms "American Exceptionalism" and Human Rights in todays world. He talks about the many contradictions that the current US administration operates under. Controversially, he describes the US as both a leader and an outlier of human rights, and talks about this in relation to the US "project" of democracy in the Middle East. He also brings into question the concept of our own neutrality, among many other topics and values that the liberal communties and human rights advocates tried to achieve in the run up to the war in Iraq.

You can download and listen to this lecture. There are two MP3 files to download.

The first audio download is 41 minutes long, and the filesize is 39 Megabytes. This contains the introduction to the talk by Ron Hill, professor of political science at Trinity College Dublin, and then the Amnesty Lecture by Michael Ignatieff.

The second audio download is 29 minutes long, and the filesize is 27 Megabytes. This is an edited recording of the Questions & Answers session afterwards, which was chaired by Olivia O'Leary, a well known Irish radio & TV journalist.

If you would like a CD copy of this lecture, please contact Indymedia Éire.

Download the Lecture by right-clicking (Mac Users Ctrl-Click) here and saving the MP3 to your computer

Download the Questions and Answers session by right-clicking (Mac Users Ctrl-Click) here and saving the MP3 to your computer

Thanks to Amnesty Ireland for facilitating the recording of this lecture. Amnesty Ireland is part of Amnesty International, an international organisation fighting for human rights worldwide. You can find out more information at their website at www.amnesty.ie

Michael Ignatieff with Olivia O'Leary
Michael Ignatieff with Olivia O'Leary

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Ignatieff is a craven intelectual     Badman    Mon Jan 17, 2005 21:08 
   a neat trick     fogy    Tue Jan 18, 2005 19:52 
   "Ahem…..except he happens to be Canadian!!!!!"     Badman    Tue Jan 18, 2005 20:05 
   easy their comrade     ff    Tue Jan 18, 2005 23:33 
   For the love of pedants     Badman    Tue Jan 18, 2005 23:43 
   Didnt agree with his talk...     thinking    Wed Jan 19, 2005 14:34 
   re: thinking     Joe    Wed Jan 19, 2005 14:43 
   How about not supporting dictatorial regimes?     R. Isible    Wed Jan 19, 2005 17:57 
   Response     Badman    Thu Jan 20, 2005 02:59 
 10   link loop     pc    Thu Jan 20, 2005 03:28 
 11   CounterPunch Deconstructs     BP    Fri Jan 21, 2005 21:28 
 12   Selective Human Rights     Austin O'Sullivan    Mon Jan 24, 2005 13:47 
 13   Badman is bang-on     web'serf'er    Sat Jan 29, 2005 20:18 


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