Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror"

Jameel Jaffer, Director, ACLU National Security Project

Larry Siems, Director, PEN American Center Freedom to Write Program

Paul Auster, Author

Matthew Alexander, former Senior Military Interrogator

David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Am Homes, Author

Aasif Mandvi, Correspondent, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Alice McDermott, Author

Laura Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

Jack Rice, former CIA Special Agent

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.)

Susan Shreve, Author

Ben Wizner, Attorney, ACLU National Security Project

Georgetown University Law Center

McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Members of Congress, artists, writers and others will read from recently declassified documents regarding the alleged abuse and torture of detainees in U.S. custody.

The event will include a visual presentation by artist Jenny Holzer.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, American Civil Liberties Union and PEN American Center.

A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.