Corpses and Places
Professor Elizabeth Cullen Dunn addresses the question of how people displaced by war rebuild their lives in the dehumanizing space of a camp. Her lecture is based on fieldwork in the Republic of Georgia following the 2008 war with Russia.
Dunn is a professor in the Department of Geography and in the Department of International Studies at Indiana University. Her fieldwork in the former Soviet Bloc, including Poland, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, has led her to investigate the aftermath of societal collapse among factory workers, internally displaced people, and victims of ethnic cleansing. Dunn’s recent book, "No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement" (Cornell University Press), addresses the internal refugee crisis in the Republic of Georgia.