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Recurring Nightmare: The Endurance of American Torture

Open to the Public

Speaker: William d'Ambruoso, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

What explains the United States' repeated turn to torture as an interrogation method in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism campaigns? Using illustrations from the Philippine-American War through the post-2001 war on terror, this seminar shows that actors seek methods that are simultaneously nasty enough to be effective and sufficiently mild-sounding to evade condemnation.

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Register before the seminar here: 
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0odu2hqjMrHNQRt9FUJHlhDsvTDEgtzl3W

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Cartoon depicting the application of the "water cure" by United States Army soldiers on a Filipino. In the background soldiers representing various European nations look on smiling. The Europeans say, "Those pious Yankees can't throw stones at us any more", meaning that the USA no longer has the moral standing to criticize European colonial practices. Cover of Life magazine, Vol. 39, #1021 first published on May 22, 1902

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Speaker: William d'Ambruoso, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

What explains the United States' repeated turn to torture as an interrogation method in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism campaigns? Using illustrations from the Philippine-American War through the post-2001 war on terror, this seminar shows that actors seek methods that are simultaneously nasty enough to be effective and sufficiently mild-sounding to evade condemnation.

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Register before the seminar here: 
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0odu2hqjMrHNQRt9FUJHlhDsvTDEgtzl3W

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