[Hamp-law] Fwd: Amherst College LJST Lecture Series: Law and the Visible - Sept. 21 "Between the Body Cam and the Black Body"

[Flavio Risech]

Please join the LJST Dept. at Amherst College for the first lecture of 
our 2017-18 Series.  Sept. 21

*2017-2018 LJST Lecture Series – LAW and the VISIBLE*

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*_THURSDAY – Sept. 21 - _*

*_Associate Professor of English and member of the American Cultural 
Studies and African American Studies Programs, Eden Osucha from Bates 
College_*

*“Between the Body Cam and the Black Body: The Post Panoptic Racial 
Interface”*

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On Thursday, Sept. 21 at 4:30pm in the Alumni House at Amherst College, 
Eden Osucha, Associate Professor of English at Bates College will 
present a paper entitled *“Between the Body Cam and the Black Body: The 
Post-Panoptic Racial Interface/./”* This is the first presentation in a 
series of seminars that will take place this year on the theme “Law and 
the Visible.”

Professor Osucha’s research and teaching focus on U.S. literature and 
culture and critical approaches to the intersecting histories of U.S. 
citizenship, sexuality, and racial formation.  She is currently working 
on her forthcoming book titled, /The Post-Racial Past: Race, Privacy and 
Identity Before the Obama Era,/ which examines historical productions of 
post-racial discourse in U.S. law, literature, and media.

To receive a copy of the paper which will consider the rise  of 
body-worn cameras in the practice of American policing in relation to 
racial alienation, please email the LJST Dept. Coordinator at 
mlestes at amherst.edu <mailto:mlestes at amherst.edu>.

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/ljst/events

*_ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW AND THE VISIBLE_*

With the rise of new technologies for seeing and recording the world, we 
have entered an era in which perception seem infinite.  The drone, for 
example, extends the possibilities of cellphone imaging technology, 
capturing life in real time from seemingly impossible vantage points.  
Whether searching out an enemy behind national borders, scoping out 
illicit activities on nominally private property, or stretching a 
regulatory eye into places and events heretofore unreachable, such 
technologies offer the promise of a decentered, all-seeing eye that can 
attack and attest, invade and rescue, without evident human presence.  
The proliferation of cameras monitoring city streets and buildings, 
police dashboard cameras, and cellphone videos are everywhere. 
Boundaries and jurisdictional lines become porous in this depersonalized 
new surveillance regime as all-seeing cameras act both as an extension 
of the human eye and will, and as mechanisms seemingly acting with their 
own agency.

This series will explore the questions: What pressures do such 
technologies place on liberal legal regimes?  How might they alter our 
conceptions of property, privacy, and jurisdiction; or reorient liberal 
assumptions about human responsibility and agency; or inflect new 
technologies of state or private violence?  In what ways do they alter 
the landscape of policing and proof?  Do they generate a new aesthetics 
or epistemology of legal visibility?

Megan Estes

Academic Coordinator

Amherst College

Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought

PO Box 5000

Amherst, MA   01002

413-542-2380

mlestes at amherst.edu <mailto:mlestes at amherst.edu>

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