Monday, April 29, 2024 • 7:00 P.M. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center

Presentation by Zoë H. Wool  

WAR IS A THING THAT HAS NO EDGES

Materialities of US War-Making
and the Internal Violences of Empire

In the post-9/11 era, US wars have largely been understood as sequestered from civilian life— fought on distant shores by a smaller-than-ever percentage of the population, one that has been aggressively insulated from these wars’ manifold costs. However, in many ways, the materials of war are shaped by the materiality of US domesticity, and the necropolitics of war are contiguous with the logics of significant otherness that shape both intimacy and harm at home. This talk traces some of these links in an effort to more fully apprehend the relation between the displaced violences of US war-making and the materialities and intimacies of everyday civilian life.

Zoë H. Wool  

Professor Wool’s work spans anthropology, disability studies, queer theory, and feminist science and technology studies, with a focus on the materialities of post-9/11 war-making and military harm and the tyrannies of normativity in the contemporary United States. She is assistant professor of anthropology at University of Toronto, where she has joint appointments in the Center for Global Disability Studies and the Center for Urban Environments.

Open to the public free of charge.

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, and the Environmental Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Programs and supported by the Breckinridge Fund.

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