MEMO in conversation with Kali Rubaii: Iraq, the US and the environmental impact of war

Join us for a conversation with Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University Kali Rubaii. 


Dr Rubaii has studied the environmental and health impacts of the US occupation of Iraq including birth defects, rapid climate change,  soil degradation and the outbreak of disease. 

We discuss how the US occupation still impacts Iraq's health and environmental sectors with disastrous consequences. 

Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. She is currently conducting two research projects: Taking toxicity as an analytic for material politics, she is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq and how it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.