Hey All,

I wanted to remind folks (or make you aware) of the Networks and Power Symposium that will take place this Friday, Nov. 18th in the MacMillan Great Room. The Altman Fellows and Scholars have invited fantastic keynote speakers (i.e. Wendy Chun from Brown University and Lisa Parks from UCSB) who will present on topics that will surely be of interest to AIMS faculty, affiliates, and students. Some AIMS folks will be presenting as well, such as myself and cris cheek. Plus, Ron Becker and others will be talking about the highly successful Faculty Flash Mob that occurred last Thursday, an intervention that was part of the Networks and Power events. See the description below and the poster for more details. It promises to be an exciting day & we hope to see you all there.

If you could distribute the attached poster to those who might have interest and plug the event in your classes, that would be awesome! Thanks! 

Best Wishes,
Braxton

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Altman Scholars Fall Symposium: Networks and Power

Friday Novermber 18th, 2011. 8:30am to 5:00pm Macmillan Great Hall.

The Networks and Power symposium will feature panel discussions,
keynote presentations, and interventions by Altman Fellows and Altman
Scholars alongside invited guests. Together these will interrogate
interrelationships between networked environments, both old and new,
and varied forms of power. The symposium will raise questions about
how established forms of powers are becoming and being contested and
reconfigured by democratized uses of networks, as well as the
exploitative dimensions of networks as they are used for surveillance,
security, control, and regulation. It will bring a pertinent
contemporary urgency of enquiry into conversation with transhistorical
examples, to show that such dynamics are not only a pressing issue for
today but have deep and perhaps unexpected roots in the histories of
earlier forms of information production and circulation.

Featured speakers will include:

Wendy Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
and author of "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of
Fiber Optics" and "Programmed Visions: Software and Memory." Her talk is
entitled: "Imagining Networks: Feeling Power." 

Lisa Parks, Professor of Film & Media Studies at UC-Santa Barbara and
author of "Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual." Her talk is
entitled: "Drone Media".