When: November 15, 2024, University of Pittsburgh Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. 4217 Posvar Hall , discussion will begin at 6:00pm (Hybrid)

The book for discussion is Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine, by Lisa Bhungalia. Lisa was a visiting professor on Contemporary and International Issues, at the University of Pittsburgh (2016).

"Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is... a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life... Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms."

The discussion will be facilitated by Lauren Banko, Lecturer, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.

Participants will receive a free copy of the book.

Register here: https://www.cerisnet.org/resource/ceris-educators-readers-forum