Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Terrorism conspiracy theories

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Terrorism conspiracy theories
and
the 1978 Sydney Hilton bombing, Lockerbie, 9/11, and the London
7/7 bombings.

Speaker: Professor Clive Williams

On Monday, 15 March 2010

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Place: Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research,
Building 131, Garran Rd, ANU

Free admission

An ANU Public Lecture presented by Canberra Skeptics and the
ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Terrorism has been an increasingly visible part of life for the
last 40 years, and following 9/11, one of the defining features
of the early 21st century. There are, however, many who believe
that terrorist acts are the result of insidious covert
governmental organisations seeking to control the people they
claim to be acting on behalf of.

Professor Clive Williams from the Strategic and Defence Studies
Centre at the ANU will examine the nature of conspiracy
theories, particularly in relation to terrorist incidents -
including 9/11. Discover the covert role played by aliens, neo-
cons, shape shifters, Israeli agents, spin doctors, or neo-
Nazis in the significant events that have shaped our world.

Clive Williams has a career background as an officer in the
Australian Intelligence Corps, which included a number of
overseas intelligence appointments. After leaving the Army in
1981, he pursued a civilian career in Defence Intelligence,
working mainly on transnational issues. He was a Chevening
scholar at the War Studies Department, King's College, London,
in 1987. He has worked and lectured internationally on
terrorism-related issues since 1980, and started running
terrorism courses at the ANU in 1996. He left Defence in 2002,
and has since run terrorism and national security-related
Masters course electives at the ANU and a number of Australian
and overseas universities. He became an Adjunct Professor at
the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism
(PICT) at Macquarie University in 2006. He also became a
Visiting Professor at the School of Human and Social Sciences
(HASS) of the University of NSW at the Australian Defence Force
Academy (ADFA) in 2006. He is a member of the International
Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI), the
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the
Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers
(AIPIO), and an Associate of the International Academy of
Investigative Psychology (AIAIP).

Dinner will follow the lecture. To RSVP for dinner please
contact Nick on Nick on 6262 5966 or act1@skeptics.com.au.