European conference marking Statewatch's 20th anniversary

European conference marking Statewatch's 20th anniversary

STATEWATCHING EUROPE
Civil Liberties, the State and the European Union
Saturday 25 June 2011 - Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (map)
Statewatch's 20th anniversary conference was held at Conway Hall in London on Saturday 25th June 2011. More than 220 people from 18 EU countries registered and over 30 NGOs attended the conference. You can view videos from the conference here.
Agenda


10.00 - 11.00 Welcome: Ann Singleton
University of Bristol & Co-Chair of Statewatch Trustees

Keynote 1: Gareth Peirce on ‘The war on terror’
Solicitor & author of 'Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice'

Keynote 2: Tony Bunyan on ‘The state of Europe’
Director of Statewatch


11.00 - 11.30 Break


11.30 - 13.00
Workshops (parallel)

1. Border controls, migration and asylum

2. Mass surveillance and technologies of control

3. The Stockholm Programme and post-Lisbon EU


13.00 - 14.00 Lunch


14.00 - 15.30
Workshops (parallel)

4. Criminalising communities and the policing of protest

5. Racism, Islamophobia and the far-right

6. Defending civil liberties: strategies of resistance


15.30 - 16.00 Break


16.00 - 17.30 Panel: Looking back, looking forward

Tony Bunyan
Director of Statewatch

Shami Chakrabarti
Director of Liberty

Courtenay Griffith QC
Garden Court Chambers

Morten Kjaerum
Director of EU Fundamental Rights Agency

Aidan White
Secretary-General, International Federation of Journalists (1987-2011)

Workshop speakers

For latest version of conference agenda and details of workshop and speakers click here.

Heiner Busch Komitee fur Grundrechte und Demokratie

Deirdre Curtin University of Amsterdam

Staffan Dahloff Journalist, Denmark

Liz Fekete Institute of Race Relations

Nadine Finch Garden Court Chambers

Ben Hayes Statewatch

Paddy Hillyard Queen's University Belfast

Walter van Holst European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi)

Vassilis Karydis Deputy Ombudsman, Greece

Isabelle Caillol Migreurop

Jean Lambert MEP Green Party (UK) Steve Peers University of Essex

Asim Qureshi CagePrisoners

Minas Samatas University of Crete

Vicki Sentas CAMPACC

Gavin Sullivan ECCHR (Berlin)

Eric Töpfer Burgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP (Germany)

Rui Tavares MEP GUE, Portugal (TBC)

Cilius Victor Newham Monitoring Project

Yasha Maccanino Statewatch

Frances Webber Institute of Race Relations

Steve Wright Leeds Metropolitan University

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10.00 - 11.00	Welcome: Ann Singleton University of Bristol & Co-Chair of Statewatch Trustees Keynote 1: Gareth Peirce on ‘The war on terror’ Solicitor & author of 'Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice' Keynote 2: Tony Bunyan on ‘The state of Europe’ Director of Statewatch
11.00 - 11.30	Break
11.30 - 13.00	Workshops (parallel) 1. Border controls, migration and asylum 2. Mass surveillance and technologies of control 3. The Stockholm Programme and post-Lisbon EU
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Workshops (parallel) 4. Criminalising communities and the policing of protest 5. Racism, Islamophobia and the far-right 6. Defending civil liberties: strategies of resistance
15.30 - 16.00	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Panel: Looking back, looking forward Tony Bunyan Director of Statewatch Shami Chakrabarti Director of Liberty Courtenay Griffith QC Garden Court Chambers Morten Kjaerum Director of EU Fundamental Rights Agency Aidan White Secretary-General, International Federation of Journalists (1987-2011)