Do the demands for heightened security in a post-9/11 world encroach upon our liberties and freedoms as members of a civil society? Can we protect ourselves as a country from future terrorist attacks without restricting the rights of individuals, particularly those who belong to racial and ethnic groups under special scrutiny since 9/11?We invite you to participate in an informal public forum on this timely topic. Convening faculty from across campus, this panel hopes to provoke a discussion about the impact on our civil liberties during the war on terrorism, as well as answer questions about the technologies of surveillance, and how crises of national security have played out in the past.

Prof. Jim Pfander (Law) will moderate. Panelists include:

• Prof. Tom Ginsburg (Law): international and comparative responses to terrorism; domestic civil liberties issues.
• Prof. Tom Huang (Electrical and Computer Engineering): intelligent computers; face visualization
• Prof. Sheldon Jacobson (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering): aviation security strategies
• Prof. Mark Leff (History): national security hysteria of the 1950s; crises of tolerance
• Prof. Todd Shaw (Political Science): African-American politics and ideology; public policy.