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DESCRIPTION:On March 24\, 1945\, the United States Navy established the War Crimes Tribunals Program in Guam\, an American unincorporated territory and the southernmost island in the Marianas archipelago.  The first of its kind under naval jurisdiction\, the War Crimes Tribunals Program prosecuted individuals accused of "Class B" war crimes\, broadly defined as "conventional atrocities" or "crimes against humanity."  The accused subjects often included Asians and Pacific Islanders who worked as interpreters\, police officers\, and soldiers for the Japanese military in Micronesia.  In this talk\, I examine the ways in which the Navy construed and applied the concepts of law and territory\, crime and punishment\, in the aftermath of the war and in the making of the tribunals.  The threshold of incarceration and militarism\, I argue\, provided the foundational logics of violence through which these and other military tribunals are made possible\, or "exceptional."  This threshold\, or liminal zone of sovereignty\, persists into the contemporary global moment because of Americas self-projection as a democratic nation-state\, a process by which military tribunals have proven central to its historical expansion and development.
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LOCATION:Lucy Ellis Lounge\, 1080 Foreign Languages Building -- NEW LOCATION
SUMMARY:At the Threshold of Incarceration and Militarism: The Making of the U.S. Navys War Crimes Tribunals Program\, 1945-1949
ORGANIZER:American Indian Studies
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CONTACT:Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
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