Rethinking Freedom in the Age of Health and Safety
Thursday 15 October 2009, 6pm (for a 6:30pm start) to 8:30pm
Committee Rooms 6 & 7, Leeds Civic Hall, Millennium Square, Leeds.
Speakers:
Yvonne Crowther, Youth Manager, Cardinal Youth & Community Centre, South Leeds.
Cath Follin, Leeds City Council, City Centre Manager
Phil Hadfield, Senior Research Fellow the University of Leeds Law School, and author of Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities.
Stuart Waiton, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay, Dundee, and author of The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics.
Dolan Cummings (Chair) Institute of Ideas, Editor Culture Wars.
With the seemingly unstoppable rise of the legislation and regulation of public space and personal behaviour - from ASBOs to smoking and drinking bans to the vetting of adults - are restrictions on individual liberties a price worth paying for the sake of our communal life, or do they actually harm civil society?
Come and join the debate. This is a free event, but a voluntary constribution towards costs will be asked for on the night.
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