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style="font-size:12.0pt">Please join the LJST Dept. at
Amherst College for the first lecture of our 2017-18
Series. Sept. 21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman",serif">2017-2018 LJST Lecture Series – LAW and
the VISIBLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif">THURSDAY – Sept. 21 -
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<b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif">Associate Professor of English
and member of the American Cultural Studies and African
American Studies Programs, Eden Osucha from Bates
College<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">“Between the Body Cam and the Black
Body: The Post Panoptic Racial Interface”<a
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
<b>“Between the Body Cam and the Black Body: The Post-Panoptic
Racial Interface<i>.</i>”</b> This is the first presentation
in a series of seminars that will take place this year on the
theme
<span style="color:#1F497D">“</span>Law and the Visible.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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, <i>The Post-Racial Past: Race,
Privacy and Identity Before the Obama Era,</i> which
examines historical productions of post-racial discourse in
U.S. law, literature, and media.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mlestes@amherst.edu">mlestes@amherst.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW AND
THE VISIBLE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">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? </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
Old Face",serif">Megan Estes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
Old Face",serif">Academic Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
Old Face",serif">Amherst College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville
Old Face",serif">Department of Law, Jurisprudence &
Social Thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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