[csaa-forum] FW: Drone Futures Seminar Series: Antoine Bousquet & Jairus Grove, 2 Septemer, a Media Futures Hub Event

[Michael Richardson]

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A virtual public seminar with
Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck) &  Jairus Grove (Hawaii)
Chaired by Michael Richardson (UNSW)
Martial Autonomies: Rise of the War Machines


Over the last few years, an animated debate has cohered around the seemingly imminent emergence of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) endowed with the ability to decide independently on the use of deadly force and act upon it. Grave concerns have been expressed over the legal, ethical, and political implications of such systems, with anxiety extending to the very fate of the human species. But what does it really mean for our weapons to be “auto-nomous”, for them to be self-governing and literally give themselves their own “law” (nomos)? What does this technological trajectory imply for our presumed human autonomy and its role within armed conflict? And what if our present moment is only revealing what was true all along: that war possesses self-sufficient dynamics independent of its instrumentalisation for political designs or determination by other social forces?

Antoine Bousquet is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Hurst & Columbia University Press, 2009).

Jairus Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is the author of Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (Duke University Press, 2019).
SEPTEMBER
2

Time: 5pm – 6:30pm AEST

Location: Drone Futures seminars will be streamed live to YouTube, where participants can converse and post questions. If you can’t attend live, you can register to receive a link to a recording of the seminar.

REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE NOW<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drone-futures-seminar-2-antoine-bousquet-and-jairus-grove-tickets-114085328288>



Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social science scholars whose research intersects with the emerging field of drone studies. From the neo-colonial violence of contemporary wars in the Middle East and Africa to the strange histories of unmanned aerial vehicles to activist uses in struggles for justice, this seminar series looks to the past and present to think into the future. By showcasing inter-disciplinary scholarship, it aims to spark new connections and inspire debate about how to build more just drone futures.

August 12: Ronak K. Kapadia (University of Illinois at Chicago), recording available here.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEcfCXKZ_4>

September 23: Katherine Chandler (Georgetown University, artist and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare). 11AM – 12.30PM (AEST)

October 14: J.D. Schnepf (University of Groningen, researcher on drones, domesticity and militarism) 5PM – 6:30PM (AEST)

November 6: Thomas Stubblefield (UMass Dartmouth, author of Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium) 10AM – 11.30AM(AEDT)

November 26: Mahwish Chishty (UMass Amherst, artist<https://www.mahachishty.com/>) Time TBA
Register for upcoming seminars via the UNSW Media Futures Hub Eventbrite Page<http://unswmediafutureshub.eventbrite.com.au/?s=123375358>.
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The Drone Futures Seminar Series will culminate in the Drone Cultures Symposium<https://www.dronewitnessing.com/>, hosted virtually on the 8-10 of December by the UNSW Media Futures Hub<https://mediafutureshub.org/>.

Stay tuned! Drone Futures will be available as a limited series of the Media Futures Podcast<https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/media-futures-podcast/id1506530595>.

Drone Futures and the Drone Cultures Symposium are funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, particularly the Bedegal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.









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