[GPSCC-chat] FW: [action_condi] [ethics-and-war] 3/6 screening of "Human Terrain" and conversation with the filmmaker, Joseph Felter, and Norman Naimark

[Brian Good]

It's not just journalists embedded in the military, not just psychologists and MD's assisting
the torture programs--it's social scientists aiding counter-insurgency.




  


    
  
  
      -- This event is open and free to the public. Please feel free to
    invite guests. --

    

    

    
    
    
    
      
        
          
            
              
               Film
                        Screening
              Cosponsored by the
                        Anthropology Department, the Center for
                        International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
                        and the History Department
               
              “Human






                        Terrain”
              &
              Post-Film
                        Discussion
               
              Featuring:
              James Der
                        Derian
              Co-Director and Executive Producer, “Human
                      Terrain”
              Professor (Research), Watson Institute for
                      International Studies, Brown University
               
              Joseph






                        Felter
               Senior






                      Research Scholar, CISAC 
               
              Norman






                        Naimark (moderator)
               Professor






                      of Eastern European Studies; Professor of History;
                      CISAC Affiliated Faculty; Europe Center Research
                      Affiliate and FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy
               
              When: Tuesday,
                      March 6, 2012 
              3:30-5:30PM
              Where: Encina Hall
                      (2nd Floor), Central Conference Room
              Free and open to the public.
                        Refreshments will be served. 
              No RSVP is required.
               
              Information is located at: http://cisac.stanford.edu/events/humanterrain_2012
              

                
              From the film’s website: ‘Human Terrain’ is two
                      stories in one.  The






                      first exposes a new Pentagon effort to enlist the
                      best and the brightest in a struggle for hearts
                      and minds.  Facing






                      long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.
                      military initiates ‘Human Terrain Systems’, a
                      controversial program that seeks to make cultural
                      awareness the centerpiece of the new
                      counterinsurgency strategy.  Designed to
                      embed social scientists with combat troops, the
                      program swiftly comes under attack as a misguided
                      and unethical effort to gather intelligence and
                      target enemies.  Gaining






                      rare access to wargames in the Mojave Desert and
                      training exercises at Quantico and Fort
                      Leavenworth, ‘Human Terrain’ takes the viewer into
                      the heart of the war machine and a shadowy
                      collaboration between American academics and the
                      military.
               
              The other story is about a
                      brilliant young scholar who leaves the university
                      to join a Human Terrain team.  After working
                      as a humanitarian activist in the Western Sahara,
                      Balkans, East Timor and elsewhere, and winning a
                      Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael
                      Bhatia returns to Brown University to take up a
                      visiting fellowship.  In the course of conducting
                      research on military cultural awareness, he is
                      recruited by the Human Terrain program and
                      eventually embeds with the 82nd Airborne in
                      eastern Afghanistan.  On the way to mediate an
                      intertribal dispute, Bhatia is killed when his
                      humvee hits a roadside bomb.
               
              War becomes academic,
                      academics go to war, and the personal tragically
                      merges with the political, raising new questions
                      about the ethics, effectiveness, and high costs of
                      counterinsurgency.
               
               
            
          
        
      
    
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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      Zhila Emadi
       Assistant to Elizabeth Gardner, Associate Director &

        Public Affairs Associate

        Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC),
        Stanford University

        616 Serra Street, Encina Hall, Second Floor

          Stanford, CA 94305-6165

          Tel: (650) 736-0414

          Fax: (650) 724-5683

        
       http://cisac.stanford.edu
        
         

      
    
    

  


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