Lisa Stampnitzky, who is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University, will be the guest presenter for the 2016 York Sociology Annual Lecture on March 23 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in the Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Building.
Stampnitzky’s lecture is titled, “How Political Violence Became Terrorism” and is based on her first book, Disciplining Terror: How Experts and Others Invented “Terrorism” (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Her remarks trace how the problem of “terrorism” and the field of terrorism expertise took shape from the 1970s to the present, and how this shaped the post 9/11 “war on terror.” Full Story