YSU Videos to focus on terrorism

A speaker will discuss terrorism and human rights.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University is sponsoring video presentations and lectures on terrorism and its impact.
Terrorism and how it relates to engineering is the focus of a free video series sponsored by the Rayen College of Engineering and Technology at Youngstown State University.
"Global Terrorism: Impacts and Consequences for Engineering and Technology" begins 2 p.m. Friday with the showing of "The World Trade Center: Anatomy of a Disaster," in Schwebel Auditorium in Moser Hall.
The second video, "Why the Towers Fell: An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the WTC," will be shown at 2 p.m. Oct. 31 in Schwebel Auditorium.
The third video, "Dirty Bomb: Terrorism's Low-Tech, High-Impact Weapon," is scheduled for 2 p.m. Nov. 21, also in Schwebel Auditorium.
Free lecture
"The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights" is the topic of a free lecture by David Luban, the Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C.
He is the speaker for the annual YSU Albert J. Shipka Speakers Series at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Chestnut Room of YSU's Kilcawley Center.
A specialist in legal ethics, Luban has published eight books and more than 200 articles and chapters. In 1998, he was chosen by the American Bar Foundation for the Keck Foundation Lecturer Award in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Before joining the Georgetown law faculty in 1997, Luban taught at Kent State University and the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.
He has been visiting professor at the Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Dartmouth College, the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Shipka Speaker Series is sponsored by YSU's department of philosophy and religious studies.
For more information, call (330) 941-3448.