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<h1 style="margin:0cm;line-height:30.0pt"><span style="color:black">Drone Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Symposium</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt"><span style="color:black">This three-day symposium brings together academics, artists and researchers to explore drone cultures from multiple perspectives and practices with the aim of generating dialogue across
disciplinary boundaries to better understand the diversity of drones and drone cultures. How has drone vision influenced contemporary visual culture? How do practices, aesthetics, techniques and technologies move back and forth between military and non-military
contexts? How have artists, writers and filmmakers critiqued, adopted and innovated drone technologies? How have drones changed how power is exercised and experienced? What cultures have sprung up around drones in conservation, activism, amateur photography
and other contexts? How are drones and other remote sensing systems shaping and shaped by our desires and imaginaries? What does the proliferation of drones mean for the future of the human?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Drone Cultures will be held live on Zoom, with Caren Kaplan’s Keynote lecture also streamed to YouTube Live and available for viewing after the event.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Session times and other information is available via the Eventbrite link below and at the
<a href="https://www.dronewitnessing.com/">Symposium Website</a>.</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-cultures-an-interdisciplinary-symposium-tickets-126484327027"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;border:solid #FFE600 6.0pt;padding:0cm;background:#FFE600">REGISTER
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<h3><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Keynote: Caren Kaplan, UC Davis
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<h3><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sensing Everyday Militarisms: Tracing the Transnational Circuits of “Pandemic Drones”</span></em><o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Perhaps it was inevitable that the emergence of a global viral catastrophe would engender media stories about “pandemic drones.” Amid the reports of small drones delivering medicine to remote locations
or, facetiously, dropping off wine bottles to vacationers stranded on cruise ships, and the ubiquitous use of drones to record images of emptied cities under lockdown conditions, we can discern other significant signs of the intersection of transnational capital,
regional and global conflicts, and operations of political and cultural power. Advocates of drones laud their precision, persistence, flexible mobility, and low-cost efficiency. These capacities undergird their burgeoning use in humanitarian and policing projects
and in fields such as environmental and earth sciences along with industries as widely varied as agriculture, logistics, entertainment, and news media. Yet the Coronavirus era reminds us all too pointedly that the same aerospace and electronics industries
that produce the drones that are in use in the violent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh or in Yemen are akin to those being marketed to domestic police forces, coast guards, and private entities. When we trace the transnational circuits of “pandemic drones,” from
Martuni, Azerbaijan to Westport, Connecticut to Mobile, Alabama to the Sea of Japan and elsewhere, we begin to sense the “everyday militarism” that structures air power in general and unmanned aerial vehicles in particular.</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Caren Kaplan</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> is Professor Emerita of American Studies at UC Davis. Her research draws
on cultural geography, landscape art, and military history to explore the ways in which undeclared as well as declared wars produce representational practices of atmospheric politics. Recent publications include Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Duke
2018) and Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (Duke 2017).<br>
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<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Plenary Presentation: Alex Edney-Browne, Melbourne</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span></b><strong><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">A Relational Analysis of US Drone Violence in Afghanistan</span></i></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">The increasing use of high-technology military drones in the conduct of warfare has removed people’s embodied and psychosocial experiences of
war from public view and understanding (at least in the West). When the harmful effects of drone violence on people are recognised and communicated, this is mostly within the confines of quantitative data such as civilian casualty statistics. This paper argues
that applying a relational approach to examining drone violence uncovers a far wider range of psychosocial and material/economic harms inflicted in drone violence. Focusing on U.S. drone violence in Afghanistan, it contends that the social relations between
U.S. Air Force drone personnel and Afghan people living under drones need to be understood as relations of domination. These relations of domination (re)produce racism, sexism, poverty and social alienation, and are psychosocially and materially/economically
harmful. To develop these arguments, the paper draws on interviews undertaken in Afghanistan, refugee camps in Greece and the United States in 2017.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Alex Edney-Browne
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">recently submitted her PhD in International Relations at the University of Melbourne. Alex’s research examines the lived experiences of drone
violence in rural Afghanistan and the U.S. Air Force: specifically, the social relations between Afghan people and U.S. Air Force drone veterans, and the psychosocial and material/economic harms produced in those relations. Her broader research interests are
in war and violence, security, counter-terrorism, legacies of colonialism and race and gender in international politics</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Michele Barker (UNSW)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">David Beesley (RMIT)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Olga Boichak (USyd)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">David Chesworth (RMIT)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Sarah Eleazar (UT Austin)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Adam Fish (UNSW)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jack Faber (Uniarts Helsinki)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Edgar Gómez Cruz (UNSW)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jennifer Smith-Mayo (Maine)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Mitch Goodwin (Melbourne)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kathrin Maurer (Southern Denmark)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Anna Munster (UNSW)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Kate Richards (WSU)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="line-height:12.6pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Drone Cultures</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> builds on the<b> Drone Futures Seminar Series</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>hosted by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://mediafutureshub.org/" title="https://mediafutureshub.org/">UNSW
Media Futures Hub</a>. You can watch those talks at the Media Futures YouTube Channel or listen along with additional interviews on 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;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;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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