Simone Browne will give the Lecture:  “Four Women and One Robot” on October 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor main lecture hall (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL).  Through the stories of four women and one robot this talk situates blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, and questions how a realization of the conditions of blackness – the historical, the present, and the historical present – can help social theorists understand our contemporary conditions of surveillance. 

Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for this information item.

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