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Restrictions on Media Freedom at War Time: The Case of the Israel-Hamas War

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Location
English Building 109
Date
Sep 17, 2024   12:00 - 1:15 pm  
Contact
Anastasiia Strakhova
E-Mail
as261@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Amit Schejter is a professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In his talk, he describes legal tools used to limit press and speech freedoms in the Israel-Hamas war and sets them in the context of similar and dissimilar tools used by other regimes in times of war in recent years. Lunch provided. 

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