Who: Catherine Lutz, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Date: June 6, 2024
Topic: The Costs of War: A Public Project on the Hidden Damages of War
The Costs of War project conducts and publishes research to facilitate debate about the ongoing consequences of the United States post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere; the costs of the U.S. global military footprint; and the domestic effects of U.S. military spending. Created in 2010 and housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Costs of War project builds on the work of over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians from around the world.
We aim to raise awareness and foster discussion by providing the fullest possible account of the human, economic, political, and environmental costs of U.S. militarism, laying the foundation for better informed U.S. foreign and domestic policies.
Time: 5:30pm Meet & Greet & Hors d’oeuvres | 6pm Presentation | 7:30pm Dinner at Old Lyme Country Club
Cost: Members are Free | $20 non-member zoom or in-person access, non-members register at the bottom of this page
Location: Presentation: First Congregational Church of Old Lyme | Dinner: Old Lyme Country Club
About the Speaker:
Catherine Lutz is a cultural anthropologist and Co-Founder of Costs of War at Brown University. She is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Family Professor Emerita of Anthropology and International Studies, and is the author of a number of widely read books, including Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century, Unnatural Emotions, Reading National Geographic, Carjacked, and Schooled and editor of War and Health and The Empire of Bases and other work on security and militarization, gender violence, emotions, photography, education, and transportation. She has also consulted with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations on sexual exploitation and abuse among peacekeepers and with the government of Guam on the U.S. military’s environmental and social impact. She is past president of the American Ethnological Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Radcliffe Fellow.
Learn more about the Costs of War project at https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/.