EDGS Book Talk: "Infrastructures of Impunity" with Elizabeth Drexler

Join the Roberta Buffett Institute's Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) Program for a book talk with Elizabeth Drexler, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Michigan State University, and author of , which explores the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66). Drexler argues that impunity for the initial killings, and for subsequent acts of political violence, has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once, together they can be described as a unified entity whose existence explains the persistence of impunity.

Doors will open at 12:00 p.m., and lunch will be served at 12:15 p.m.

Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.

About the Speaker

Elizabeth F. Drexler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Michigan State University. For more than 20 years, she has conducted research on human rights, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and impunity in Indonesia and Timor Leste. Drexler's ongoing research considers the arts, gender, and longitudinal peacebuilding in Aceh and Maluku. Her most recent book, , examines the creation and persistence of impunity after the 1965–66 genocide. She is currently conducting research on justice, meaning-making, and shared futures in the time of AI and imperiled democracy.

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