Kelsey Kitzke (BC '23, BCRW Post-Baccalaureate Fellow)

“Support the Troops”: the Solider, the Citizen, and Our Ongoing Attachment to Militarism in post-9/11 America

Jan 17, 2024

Barnard Professor of Anthropology Nadia Abu El-Haj’s recently released book Combat Trauma elucidates the ways in which a rising focus on the psychological consequences of war on American combat personnel has dovetailed with ubiquitous calls to “support the troops” so as to undermine criticisms of US militarism in the post 9/11 era. Abu El-Haj tracks […]

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9/11, militarism, ptsd, trauma, war

Lynn Chu Classroom, LL002 Milstein Center
Sep 28, 2023 | 6:30PM

Gender Without Identity

Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.

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gender, psychoanalysis, trauma

Online
Apr 12, 2022 | 6:30PM

The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire

Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan  

Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.

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art, Madness, trauma