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<h1 style="margin:0cm;line-height:30.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">A virtual public seminar with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On the Skin: Drone Warfare, Collateral Damage, and the Human Terrain</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This seminar will explore Kapadia's research into the contemporary multimedia art works by Iraqi American artist Wafaa Bilal and American artist elin o’Hara
slavick, as a meditation on how the violence of US imperial and aerial warfare across the long twentieth century has devastated humans, animals, and social ecologies in the Greater Middle East.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kapadia’s reading of
Bilal’s performances highlights the critical role of touch, embodiment, and the senses in forging what he terms a “queer calculus” to analyze the effects of US counterterrorism and their toxic afterlives. elin o’Hara slavick’s drawing and painting series<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Protesting
Cartography or Places the United States Has Bombed</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>offers an important intertext to Bilal’s corporeal mappings by confronting our collective failure of imagination about what bombs do to populations, bodies,
and topographies. Together, these artists powerfully attest to the violent expanse of postwar US geopolitical power around the globe and make palpable the “sensorial life of empire.” Through close readings of their insurgent aesthetic projects, Kapadia traces
an alternative affective map of the social worlds and populations disappeared by contemporary US drone strikes in Iraq and by extension in “Af-Pak,” Yemen, Somalia, Niger, and related sites of US forever warfare.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ronak K. Kapadia</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His first book,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the
Forever War<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Duke University Press, 2019), theorizes the queer world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. His new project, “Breathing in the Brown Queer Commons,”
examines race-radical queer and trans migrant futurisms to develop a critical theory of healing justice and pleasure across transnational sites of security, terror, and war in the wilds of ecological chaos and US imperial decline.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Time:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">10:00
am – 11:30 am AEST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Location:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drone-futures-seminar-1-ronak-k-kapadia-tickets-113940312542?ref=estw"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid #FFE600 6.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#FFE600">REGISTER
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<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Drone Futures</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">September 2: Antoine Bousquet</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(Birkbeck,
University of London, author of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">The
Eye of War: Perception from the Telescope of the Drone</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">)</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">and</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jairus
Grove</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(University
of Hawaii, author of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">A
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">).</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5PM
– 6.30PM (AEST)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">September 23: Katherine Chandler</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(Georgetown
University, artist and author of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Unmanning:
How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">).</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">11AM
– 12.30PM (AEST)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">November 6: Thomas Stubblefield</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(UMass
Dartmouth, author of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Drone
Art: The Everywhere War as Medium</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">)</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">10AM
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">November 26: Mahwish Chishty</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(UMass
Amherst,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.mahachishty.com/">artist</a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">)</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Time
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Media Futures Hub Eventbrite Page</b></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Drone Futures Seminar Series</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">will
culminate in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.dronewitnessing.com/" title="https://www.dronewitnessing.com/">Drone Cultures Symposium</a>, hosted virtually on the 8-10 of December by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mediafutureshub.org/" title="https://mediafutureshub.org/">UNSW
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<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stay tuned!
<b>Drone Futures </b>will be available as a limited series of the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/media-futures-podcast/id1506530595">
Media Futures Podcast</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Drone Futures and the Drone Cultures Symposium are funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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and their elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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