{"id":38265,"date":"2010-11-22T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=38265"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:14:51","slug":"race-posthuman1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/22\/race-posthuman1\/","title":{"rendered":"'Antisocial Media' opens 'Race in a Post-Human World' series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of a Bates College series exploring the impacts of social and technological progress on concepts of race, author Lisa Nakamura offers a lecture at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Pettengill Hall’s Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<\/p>\n

Nakamura’s lecture, titled Antisocial Media: Understanding Racism and Homophobia in a Digitally Connected World<\/em>, will address social media’s influence on concepts of race and homosexuality, and will touch on the recent suicide of Rutgers first-year Tyler Clementi.<\/p>\n

The talk is the first public offering in the series Race in a Post-Human World<\/em>, which explores the collapse of social categories caused by advances in technology. Sponsored by the Bates College Lectures Committee, the series will include two more lectures and a dance performance, all of which will be open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact jgovinda@bates.edu.<\/p>\n

Post-humanism is a term expressing what many believe is our current condition as human beings. Thanks to technological advances — such as medical interventions like smart prosthetics and implanted defibrillators, and human-emulating capabilities such as artificial intelligence — the old boundaries between animal and machine are increasingly blurred.<\/p>\n

Similarly, post-humanism challenges long-held notions of other categorizations of humanity such as gender, race and species — making post-humanism a concept that is highly controversial, but extremely idea-rich across a wide range of academic disciplines.<\/p>\n

Nakamura is the director of the Asian American Studies Program and Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published numerous books including Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet<\/em> (Routledge, 2002).<\/p>\n

The series continues in 2011 with the lecture Ring, Ring, Ring: Popular Music and Mobile Technologies<\/em> by Alexander Weheliye, associate professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University, at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, also in Pettengill Hall’s Keck Classroom.<\/p>\n

Weheliye teaches courses in African American and African diaspora literature and culture, critical theory and popular culture. He is the author of the book Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2005).<\/p>\n

Alondra Nelson, associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, offers the lecture Roots Revelations: Genetic Ancestry Tracing and the YouTube Generation<\/em> at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, March 3, again in the Keck Classroom.<\/p>\n

Nelson specializes in race and ethnicity in the U.S.; gender and kinship; sociohistorical studies of medicine, science and technology; and social and cultural theory.<\/p>\n

Race in a Post-Human World<\/em> concludes with a performance by acting director and assistant professor of dance at Bates, Rachel Boggia. Her performance, In the Very Eye of the Night<\/em>, takes place in May (date TBA) and is conceived and directed by Marlon Barrios Solano, a Venezuelan dance and new media artist, teacher and researcher.<\/p>\n

Boggia, who has been on faculty at Wesleyan University, Dickinson College and Ohio State University, specializes in multidisciplinary collaboration with scientists, dance documentaries and multi-media performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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