What about the victims? Writing a history of a terrorist attack

[Cindy McMurray]

An Ethics Institute colloquy with Dr. Steve Hewitt

Department of History and the Centre for the Study of North America

University of Birmingham

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

SUNY Plattsburgh Institute for Ethics in Public Life

Noon over Zoom (link to follow)

Steve Hewitt is associate professor of history at the University of
Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He has published extensively on past and
current security and intelligence matters within the context of the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Dr. Hewitt’s books include The
British War on Terror: Terrorism and Counterterrorism on the Home Front
since 9/11, Snitch: A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer, and Spying
101: The RCMP’s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997. He
is currently working on a history of lone-actor terrorism in the US, UK,
and Canada. Dr. Hewitt also is under contract with  McGill-Queen’s
University Press to publish a history of terrorism and counterterrorism in
Canada. It is this latter project he will be drawing our attention to
during the conversation on Wednesday. Using the case of the 1985 Air India
bombing in which 268 Canadians died, Dr. Hewitt will examine the place of
victims and their families in such events. He shall explore ways to
acknowledge them, but also focus on how to address topics they might find
painful and even disagree with.

Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to all members of the SUNY
Plattsburgh community.

For further information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the
Institute for Ethics in Public Life at slaterjr at plattsburgh,edu
<slaterjr at plattsbrugh.edu>.

The work of the Ethics Institute is generously supported by gifts to the
Plattsburgh College Foundation.
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