[CS] March 13 public lecture: “Everyday Militarization” by Caren Kaplan, Ph.D. MLH at 5:30 p.m.

[Paula Harmon]

The inaugural Lester J. Mazor Memorial Lecture at Hampshire College will 
be held on March 13, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. in Franklin Patterson Hall (in 
the Main Lecture Hall).

In honor of her mentor, *Caren Kaplan 73F* will give a talk entitled 
“Everyday Militarization.” Kaplan is a professor of American Studies at 
the University of California, Davis.

Professor Kaplan, a Hampshire College graduate, earned her PhD. at the 
University of California, Santa Cruz. She taught at Georgetown 
University and the University of California, Berkeley, before taking up 
her current position at UC Davis.

Mazor was a founding faculty member of Hampshire College. He joined 
Hampshire in July 1970. For nearly four decades, Professor Mazor taught 
and mentored Hampshire students interested in law and related fields. He 
established the Law Program at Hampshire. This lecture series is made 
possible by the generous funding of the Lester J. Mazor Endowment at 
Hampshire College. It is free and open to the public.

*Lecture Abstract:*  In the modern period, we assume that there is a 
necessary and comfortable gap between civilian and military life that 
keeps war contained in specific spaces at a distance. Yet this division 
obscures the blurry middle ground between military and civilian culture, 
particularly in the arenas of architectural design, techno-culture, 
digital arts and entertainment, and many fields and disciplines. 
"Everyday Militarization" poses a series of questions such as: When is 
wartime and where does it occur? Can wars be said to begin and end or do 
they disturb our sense of time and continuity? Are the boundaries of 
battlefields discrete or do they move into other spaces and sites? This 
talk will focus on the visual culture of wartime to explore examples of 
continuity and disruption in the space and time of modernity.


-- 
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu
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