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Lecture — "Burning Iraq: Reckoning with Military Injustice"

Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:30–2:00 PM
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    The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, in partnership with its Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Working Group, as part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, proudly offer a four-part lecture series over the 2024–25 academic year. The series focuses on U.S. imperialism and U.S. military and humanitarian involvement in the Middle East, and in particular Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Graduate students serve as discussants after each lecture, prior to Q&A with the audience. The series conducts a critical evaluation of U.S. policy in the Middle East and calls for a reassessment of the nature and function of a U.S. presence, and the implications posed for peacebuilding practitioners and contemporary global affairs scholarship.
    The United States used "burn pits" to dispose of military waste on its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. These massive incineration fields caused respiratory illness, cancer, and death for thousands of soldiers. Iraqi and Afghan communities continue to endure the consequences of exposure to burn pits as just one form of harm to their health and livelihoods. Recently returned from fieldwork in Fallujah, Iraq, Kali Rubaii, cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, reports on the condition of Iraq's environment, 20 years since the 2003 US invasion. Her talk poses the question: What are the routes to justice and accountability for the most privatized war in human history? Richard "Drew" Marcantonio, assistant professor of environment, peace, and global affairs, will serve as a respondent. 
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    https://events.nd.edu/events/2024/11/07/burning-iraq-reckoning-with-military-injustice/

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