[Hamp-law] Caren Kaplan lecture: Everyday Militarization (Mazor Memorial Lecture), March 13, Hampshire College

[Jennifer Hamilton]

*MAZOR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES: EVERYDAY MILITARIZATION*

Please join us for the inaugural Lester J. Mazor Memorial Lecture at
Hampshire College on March 13, 2012.Our first lecturer is Dr. Caren
Kaplan (73F), Professor of American Studies at the University of
California, Davis.In honor of her mentor and Hampshire College founding
faculty member Lester J. Mazor, Dr. Kaplan will give a talk entitled
"Everyday Militarization."

Date: Tuesday March 13, 2012

Time: 5:30pm

Place: Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH), Hampshire
College. Reception to follow in the FPH lobby.

*EVERYDAY MILITARIZATION*

*Dr. Caren Kaplan, UC-Davis*

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.

Dr. Caren Kaplan graduated from Hampshire in 1977.She received her PhD.
from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and taught at Georgetown
University and UC Berkeley before taking up her current position at UC
Davis.

Professor Emeritus Lester J. Mazor (1936-2011) was a founding faculty
member at Hampshire College.He joined Hampshire in July 1970. For nearly
four decades, Lester taught and mentored Hampshire students interested
in law and related fields.He established the Law Program at Hampshire,
the first undergraduate legal studies program in the United States.

This lecture series is made possible by the generous funding of the
Lester J. Mazor Endowment at Hampshire College.

This lecture is free and open to the public.For more information, please
contact Jennifer Hamilton at jhamilton at hampshire.edu
<mailto:jhamilton at hampshire.edu>.




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