Dr. Ronald Deibert, founder and director of the renowned Citizen Lab, will be the H.T. Reid Lecturer at Acadia University. Dr. Deibert’s lecture, "War in the World Brain,” is based on his bestselling book, "Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace," in which he explores how the digital technologies that have innovated global communication also create spaces for digital security threats emanating from criminal enterprises, corporations, and state governments. Deibert’s lecture will be a provocative exploration of geopolitics, international and national security, and personal privacy in the digital age.

Free to the public. Doors open Friday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m.; lecture begins at 7 p.m.

Location: Acadia's Festival Theatre 

Event information: https://www.facebook.com/events/199937767103859/

Event contact: Dr. Rachel Brickner (rachel.brickner@acadiau.ca).

More information about Ronald Deibert and Citizen Lab is available here: https://citizenlab.org

H.T. Reid Lecture

Acadia University's H.T. Reid Lecture series, a collaboration of the Department of History and Classics and the Department of Politics, was established in 1958 in order to give the opportunity to an “eminent scholar or person of affairs” to publicly address the university community on issues of politics and history. Although the lecture was originally intended to address issues concerning the British Commonwealth, the committee is excited to explore contemporary social, economic, and political issues at global, national, regional and local levels. Nova Scotia’s rich and contested history (including Mi’kmaq /Settler relations, the Acadian Expulsion, and the Afro-Nova Scotian experience) offers an important context in which H.T. Reid Lecture awardees are able to explore historical and contemporary political issues.

The H.T. Reid lectureship has been held by eminent figures such as:

2015 Hon. Bob Rae, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

2009 Anna-Maria Tremonti, Foreign Cor. and Host of CBC’s The Current

2007 Naomi Klein, Activist, Author and Film Maker

1998 The Right Honourable Stephane Dion, Member of Parliament, Canada

1994 Dr.. Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo

1988 Dr. Moshe Maoz, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Northwestern University Chicago

1986 Mr. Thabo Mbeki, African National Congress, Lusaka

1985 Dr. Eduardo Rabossi, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of the Secretariat of Human Rights in Argentina

1983 Dr. Salim A. Hoss, Immediate Past Prime Minster of Lebanon

1981 Dr. B.G. Ramcharam, Special Assistant to the Director, Division of Human Rights, United Nations

1978 Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien, Editor, The Observer, London. Former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dublin Ireland

1977 Dr. William Hardy McNeil, Robert A. Milliken Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago

1975 The Right Honorable Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

1973 Professor Dennis Austin, Professor of Government, University of Manchester

1970 Dr. Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, Professor of History, Oxford University

1969 Dr. Gerald Graham Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, University of London

1967 Mr. Justice W.O. Douglas, Supreme Court of the United States

1965 Lord Caradon of St. Cleer, the British, Representative to the United Nations

1963 Professor Kenneth Robinson, University of London

1960 Professor Nicholas Mansergh, Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge

1958 His Excellency Norman Robertson, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.A.

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