Dr. Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara, discusses “The Afterlives of Torture: Putting the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ in Historical and Global Context” on Wednesday, Nov. 8, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Schoonover 145. President Donald Trump campaigned and won on an electoral platform that included the pledge to bring back waterboarding and other torture techniques. This begs the question of whether the United States could or should resurrect a torture policy. In this lecture, Hajjar will situate these contemporary developments and debates in the context of a longer history of U.S. torture and then explore how the post-9/11 torture program instituted by the Bush administration in 2001 continues to haunt national politics and international relations, despite that the program itself was cancelled by President Obama in 2009. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate, Making & Breaking the Law theme, and War and Peace theme.