The Elliott School of International Affairs Book Launch Series cordially invites you to a lecture featuring Professor Sarah Wagner's new book, "What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War" (Harvard University Press).
The event is free, on the record and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be provided and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
The event will be hosted on:
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30pm
Rm 505, Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Event timeline:
5:00 pm Event begins, introductory remarks by Dr. Andrew Bickford.
5:05 pm - 6:00 pm Lecture by the author.
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm Moderated Q&A with the audience.
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm Book signing.
About the Book
Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the Vietnam War are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah Wagner tells us the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who identify the dead using bits of unearthed bone, to the relatives who press government officials for news on their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war.
For a more detailed description of the book, please consult:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988347.
About the Author
Sarah Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University. She is a social anthropologist who works in the former Yugoslavia and the United States, and her research has explored connections between the destructive and creative forces of war, focusing on the identification of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the US military's attempts to recover and identify service members Missing In Action (MIA) from the past century's conflicts.
Her specializations include war and memory; nationalism; biotechnology and forensic science; post-conflict social reconstruction; forced migration and diaspora; interventionism; and military culture. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and is also the author of Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide and To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing.
About the Moderator
Dr. Andrew Bickford is a professor of anthropology at Georgetown University and author of "Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany" (Stanford University Press) and "Chemical Heroes: Biotechnology, Psychopharmacology, and Armored Life in the United States Military" (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
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