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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:1.0cm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black">“Black Sites, Redacted Bodies:
The Torture and Death of Gul Rahman in the CIA Salt Pit”</span></b></p>
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color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Date:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> Wednesday 19 October</span></font></p>
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color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> 6:00pm-8:00pm</span></font></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Venue:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> Macquarie University, Y3A.212</span></font></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Speaker:</font></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;
color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> Associate Professor Joseph
Pugliese</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#000090">About the Topic:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">In
this paper, I examine the torture and death of Gul Rahman in the CIA secret
prison/black site known as the Salt Pit, located in northern Kabul,
Afghanistan. Virtually excised from the public record, his name and death are
mentioned in a footnote of the Classified Response to the U.S. Department of
Justice Office of Professional Responsibility Classified Report (2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This report, prepared by Counsel for
Jay S. Bybee, is a detailed and lengthy repost to the accusation made by the
Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that Judge Bybee’s memo (August 1,
2002) to Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, authorised some forms
of torture that contravened the U.S. Torture Statute, which defines torture and
declares it to be a federal crime.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">In
the course of my paper, I proceed to discuss the details of Gul Rahman’s
torture and death in the CIA Salt Pit (in the context of the Bybee memo and his
Counsel’s response to the OPR’s condemnatory report) in order to flesh out the
relations of legal and governmental power that were instrumental in
establishing U.S. regimes of torture and death in the CIA secret prisons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In delineating the forces that were
operative in the torture and death of Rahman, I proceed to identify two
intersecting modalities of violence – instrumental and gratuitous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In the concluding section of my paper,
I stage a critique of the practice of redaction, as that legal practice that
edits and censors a document of any secret or sensitive information. Redaction,
I argue, must be seen as producing, analogically, its own discursive black
sites of silence, loss and death.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#000090">About the
Speaker:</span></u></b></p>
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normal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Associate
Professor Joseph Pugliese is Discipline Leader of Cultural Studies in Department
of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He has published widely on race,
ethnicity and whiteness, refugees and asylum seekers, bodies and technologies,
and cultural studies of law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Recent publications include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Biometrics:
Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics</i> (Routledge), which was short listed for
the Surveillance Studies Book Prize (2010), and an edited collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories,
Geopolitical Spaces</i> (Peter Lang).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Earlier this year, he was invited to present his current research on
U.S. torture as the keynote address at the U.S. Association of Law, Culture and
the Humanities annual conference, University of Nevada.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">For more
information please contact Holly Randell-Moon (</span><a href="mailto:holly.randell-moon@m%E2%80%8Bq.edu.au"><u style="text-underline:
#1F1F1F"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#441579;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;text-underline:#1F1F1F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">holly.randell-moon@mq.edu.au</span></u></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#1F1F1F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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