Webinar on Julian Assange and Press Freedom

Webinar:
“Julian Assange and Press Freedom”

 

Time:  02:30-05:30 P.M., Monday, February 19, 2024
Organizer:  Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Chair: 

Chien-Yi Lu

(Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)

Discussants: 

Chien-San FENG (Professor, College of Communication, National Chengchi University)
Hsiu-mei CHUNG (Professor, Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University)
Chien-Yi Lu (Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)

https://youtu.be/79t3YSTX1w8
   
        Abstract:
     Internationally, academic studies on WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, continue to grow. Within Taiwan, however, such discussions are completely absent. As Assange enters his sixth year of solitary confinement in the Belmarsh Prison in the UK with neither a trial nor a conviction, a new wave of global discussion on the case has once again emerged. Just as future court rulings and political decisions will have a far-reaching impact on press freedom, freedom of speech and human rights world-wide, so the fate of Julian Assange will provide us some clues as to the direction the world, chaotic at the moment, might be heading.
Contact: Miss Lin, +886-2-3789-7222, pimei@gate.sinica.edu.tw