Leyla Belle Drake: Slutseminarium

Leyla Belle Drake ventilerar sitt avhandlingsmanus, med den preliminära titeln "Antiwar witness testimony and subversive knowledge production at the 1967 Russell Tribunal". Opponent: Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota.

Abstract

The dissertation examines witness categories and witness practices at the 1967 Russell Tribunal, an international activist inquiry into American war crimes in Vietnam. By studying the epistemological claims, political meanings and emotional effects of the major witness categories to give evidence at the Tribunal – experts, factfinders, victims, and perpetrators – the dissertation shows how non-state actors developed and implemented pioneering methods for protesting and resisting asymmetrical wars and other injustices.

Bilden föreställer Tribunalens president Jean-Paul Sartre, jurymedlemmen Simone de Beauvoir samt den svenska läkaren och Tribunal-factfindern John Takman i Stockholm (Arlanda) inför Tribunalens första offentliga session. Bildkälla: Wikimedia Commons (image in public domain).