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<h1 style="margin:0cm;line-height:30.0pt"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck) &
</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jairus Grove
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Martial Autonomies: Rise of the War Machines</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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?</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">Antoine Bousquet
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of
<i>The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and
<i>The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity</i> (Hurst & Columbia University Press, 2009).</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jairus Grove
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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
<i>Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World</i> (Duke University Press, 2019).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Time</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal">:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5pm
– 6:30pm</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> AEST</span></b><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-2-antoine-bousquet-and-jairus-grove-tickets-114085328288"><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">August 12: Ronak K. Kapadia
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(University of Illinois at Chicago),
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEcfCXKZ_4">recording available here.</a></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
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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">October 14: J.D. Schnepf
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">(University of Groningen, researcher on drones, domesticity and militarism)
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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 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
TBA</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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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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
Media Futures Hub</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">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>
<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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