[H-PAD] Fwd: Inaugural Ellsberg Lecture with Pulitzer Prize Winner Azmat Khan

Fri Nov 4 10:47:17 PDT 2022

An important announcement about the next presentation in the outstanding U.
Mass Confronting Imperialism series. The event and registration information
is attached.

Solidarity,

Margaret

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From: UMass Amherst History Department <communications at umass.edu>
Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 6:41 PM
Subject: Inaugural Ellsberg Lecture with Pulitzer Prize Winner Azmat Khan
To: Feinberg Series <feinberg at history.umass.edu>, Jessica Johnson <
johnson at history.umass.edu>, Christian Appy <appy at history.umass.edu>, Diana
Sierra Becerra <dianasierrab at umass.edu>

Dear All, Please see below for sharing widely! Thank you!

Join the Ellsberg Initiative for an address on the human toll of America's
air wars, based on Khan's 2022 Pulitzer-winning investigative reporting
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[image: Inaugural Ellsberg Lecture: The Human Toll of America's Air Wars
with Azmat Khan]
Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy
Tuesday, November 15, 7pm EST

In Person at the UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom
Online by Zoom
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The Human Toll of America's Air Wars

In recent American wars, the United States traded many of its troops on the
ground for an arsenal of aircraft, high flying drones, and precision
weapons, often directed by controllers thousands of miles away. Successive
U.S. administrations have boasted America’s air wars are the “most precise”
in the history of warfare, replete with pledges of transparency and
accountability. Investigative reporter Azmat Khan set out to test those
claims on the ground in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, and within
confidential troves of documents she obtained through years-long lawsuits
against the Department of Defense. In this lecture, Khan will detail the
culmination of her findings and the pattern of impunity within this new way
of war.
[image: Photo of a bombing in Aqyyarah, Iraq, by Azmat Khan]
Azmat Khan

Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter whose work
grapples with the human costs of war. She is a writer for the *New York
Times Magazine*, a Carnegie Fellow, and the Birch Assistant Professor at
Columbia Journalism School, where she also leads the Li Center for Global
Journalism. Khan is writing a book for Random House investigating America’s
air wars.

Her multi-part series in the New York Times, *The Civilian Casualty Files,
<https://umass.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6f8321707fe639459eff346b&id=fc7d21e16f&e=f886039a0d>*
was
awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. The project was
the culmination of more than five years of Khan’s reporting, including
ground investigation at the sites of more than 100 civilian casualty
incidents in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, more than 1,300 formerly secret
military records she obtained in a legal battle with the Pentagon, and
scores of interviews with military and local sources. Read more....
<https://umass.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6f8321707fe639459eff346b&id=244a68e011&e=f886039a0d>
[image: Azmat Khan in Kandahar]
The Ellsberg Lecture

The first annual Ellsberg Lecture is presented by the *Ellsberg Initiative
for Peace and Democracy
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The Ellsberg Initiative was inspired by the acquisition of the papers of
Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, by the *Robert S. Cox
Special Collections and University Archives
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at UMass. The Initiative’s mission is to promote public awareness,
scholarship, and activism on the overlapping causes that define Ellsberg’s
legacy: peace, anti-imperialism, democracy, truth-telling, nuclear
disarmament, and social and environmental justice.

This year's Ellsberg Lecture is co-presented by the 2022-2023 Feinberg
Series, Confronting Empire
<https://umass.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6f8321707fe639459eff346b&id=fbc256642a&e=f886039a0d>,
which is exploring histories of U.S. imperialism and anti-imperialist
resistance. The Feinberg Series is presented by the UMass Amherst History
Department
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Contact us. <feinberg at history.umass.edu>
Location Information

The UMass Amherst Student Union (41 Campus Center Way) is a short distance
from the Campus Parking Garage (1 Campus Center Way, off of Commonwealth
Ave, $1.75/hour). See map for free parking.

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The Feinberg Series is made possible thanks to Kenneth R. Feinberg '67 and
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