The Costs of War
Catherine Lutz
Dickinson will host “The Costs of War,” a lecture on the consequences of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Stern Center, Great Room, at 208 West Louther Street.
Brown University professor Catherine Lutz will report on the efforts of scholars and practitioners to assess the human, social, political and economic impact of these wars. Lutz will discuss the range, scale and longevity of those effects and how this knowledge might circulate within the contemporary political landscape of the U.S.
At Brown, Lutz is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies. She also is the author or co-author of many books and articles on security and militarization, gender violence and transportation, and has consulted with a variety of civil-society organizations as well as with the U.N. Department for Peacekeeping Operations and the government of Guam. Her research focuses on war, gender, photography and emotions, as well as the U.S. car system. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, and numerous book awards. She is past president of the American Ethnological Society.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
Audio and video of past Clarke Forum events are available through Clarke Forum podcasts. Podcasts of numerous college speakers as well as course podcasts also are available via Dickinson's iTunes U channel.
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Published February 3, 2015