Book Talk: Chemical Heroes

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 | 12:00 PM | Arrupe Hall Multipurpose Room, Georgetown University Main Campus

Due to COVID, this event is only open to the Georgetown Community (students, faculty, and staff). Mandatory RSVP.

Presented by the Gender⁺ Justice Initiative, DC Public Library, Anthropology Department, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Join us in welcoming Professor Andrew Bickford for a conversation on his book Chemical Heroes –Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Duke University Press, 2021), named a 2021 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Bickford analyzes the US military’s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological “supersoldiers” capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma. This talk is moderated by Sarah Wagner, Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University.

About the author:

Andrew Bickford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University, author of Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany, and co-author of The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, or Notes on Demilitarizing American Society.

Accommodation requests can be made at genderjustice@georgetown.edu