Featured Speaker: Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University 

Made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Speaker: Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine

... Read more about Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited"

War was return of earth to ugly earth,
War was foundering of sublimities,
Extinction of each happy art and faith
By which the world had still kept head in air.
Protesting logic or protesting love,
Until the unendurable moment struck —
The inward scream, the...

Opening Remarks | 2:30pm

Panel 1: Strategy, Law, and Narrative | 2:45pm

Asymmetric:Warfare::Politics:Partisan
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University