CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS GUANTÁNAMO PRISON

"Guantánamo: The Law and Politics of a U.S. Prison in Cuba" is the subject of a conference to be held Wednesday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas 110. Admission is free and all are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

The conference will examine the legal and political issues raised by the U.S. government's maintenance of a prison at a U.S. military base in Guantánamo, Cuba, for more than three years. Participants include Jeremy Elkins, associate professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College; Peter Brampton Koelle, an attorney and instructor in the Spanish department at Bryn Mawr; and Burton Caine, professor of constitutional law at Temple University.

The prisoners at Guanánamo were captured in Afghanistan and other locales. "Although the U.S. government has released some of these prisoners, it has given no indication as to how long it will keep in captivity the overwhelming majority of the prisoners seized more than three years ago," says Koelle. Participants in the conference will consider this question in light of issues of politics as well as international and U.S. constitutional law.

The program is sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Departments of History, Political Science and Spanish; the Office of Intercultural Affairs; the Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy; and the Bi-College Peace and Conflict Studies Program. For more information call 610-526-5049.

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