Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
Asymmetric Warfare: A Symposium
Opening Remarks | 2:30pm
Panel 1: Strategy, Law, and Narrative | 2:45pm
Asymmetric:Warfare::Politics:Partisan
Andrew Bacevich
Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
Moral Challenges of Asymmetric Warfare
Moshe Halbertal
Gruss Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Nuclear Weapons Eliminate the Right of Self Defense
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
Noah Feldman (Chair)
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Keynote Lecture | 5:00pm
Asymmetric War: Lawfare and Provocation in an Insurgency
Jeremy Waldron
University Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Panel 2: Cultures of Asymmetry | 6:45pm
ISIS: A Politics of the Surface
Faisal Devji
University Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University
You Just Can't Compare: On the Double Edges of Comparison in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Lital Levy
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
A-symmetry of Enemy Personality and the Paradox of Forever War
Emile Simpson
Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Homi Bhabha (Chair)
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center
