Annual
International Affairs Lecture, to be delivered this year by Professor Alison
Howell, from Rutgers University, Newark on April 21st at 6 pm in
Davis Auditorium.
Prof.
Howell is associate professor of Political Science at Rutgers
University, Newark, where she is also an affiliate members of Women’s and
Gender Studies. She has written on topics relating
to the international relations of medicine, technoscience, security and warfare
in order to advance feminist, critical race, and disability studies approaches
to global politics. Her first book, Madness in
International Relations examined the authority of psychological
knowledge in shaping global security practices in spaces as diverse as
militaries, post-conflict situations, and detention camps. Her second
book, Race and Security Studies, is under contract with Oxford
University Press and is co-authored with Melanie Richter-Montpetit.
The lecture is being co-sponsored by American
Studies, History, Gender Studies, Political Science and Psychology.