Please join in on a discussion of the recently published book Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France (Univ. of California Press, 2022), with its co-authors, Robert Desjarlais (SLC Anthropology Faculty) and Khalil Habrih (University of Ottawa). Robert and Khalil will discuss the book with four faculty members at Sarah Lawrence College: Parthiban Muniandy (Sociology), Elias Rodriques (Literature), Robin Starbuck (Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts), and Elke Zuern (Politics) - as well as all those attending.
In Traces of Violence, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.
Sponsored by the Donald C. Samuel Fund for Economics and Politics and the Anthropology Department.