The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents:
Professor Caren Kaplan, American Studies, UC Davis
Affiliated faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies
"The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpretation and Deception in Militarized Aeromobility" PRE-LECTURE READING
When: Monday, November 14, 2011
Time: 7:00 - 9:00PM
Location: Communications 139
Optional Reading: Caren Kaplan, "'A Rare and Chilling View': Aerial Photography as Biopower in the Visual Cultue of '9/11,'" Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11:2 (2011), launched June 30 at http://reconstruction.eserver.org/112/Kaplan_Caren.shtml
Caren Kaplan is Profesor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies at UC Davis. She is author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discources of Displacement (Duke 1996) and the co-author and co-editor of Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001/2005), Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999) , and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994) as well as two digital multi-media scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. Her current research focuses on aerial views and militarized visual culture.
Presented by: Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Arts and Visual Culture
For more information, contact: visualmedia@ucsc.edu
Or visit: http://arts.ucsc.edu/calendar and click on "Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia"