Catherine Lutz: The Costs of War

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | What have been the consequences, short and long term, of the wars launched by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9/11? This talk reports on the efforts of a large groups of scholars and practitioners to assess the human, social, political, and economic impact of those wars in those two countries as well as in the United States. It demonstrates the startling range, scale, and longevity of those effects, and asks how this knowledge might circulate within the contemporary political landscape of the United States.

Catherine Lutz is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. Her research has variously focused on war, gender, photography, and emotions, as well as the US 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.