http://www.independent.com/news/2013/feb/25/ucsb-symposium-examine-use-drone s-humanist-perspec/ http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2949 UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 28 will have a symposium: "Life in the Age of Drones" to begin at 2 p.m. in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building. The event is free and open to the public. Speakers to include: * Keynote address, "After the Drones," by Arthur Kroker, the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Theory at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; * Marko Peljhan, professor of media arts and technology at UCSB and co-director of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, will discuss "The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems -- A Brief History"; * Lisa Parks, professor of film and media studies, and director of UCSB's Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), will discuss "Targeted Homelands: Networked Visions of the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan"; * filmmaker Casey Cooper Johnson, will screen and discuss his film "UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey"; * and Nancy Mancias, a CODEPINK campaign organizer, whose talk is titled "Much Ado About Drones: New Media to New War." Al Mac = Alister William Macintyre 2013 Feb I become temporarily famous: http://cryptome.org/2013/02/drone-nations.htm _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE