This year’s ICS Lecture Series will explore relations between two current areas of interdisciplinary inquiry: biopolitics—the politics of life itself—and cyberpolitics—configurations of power in the digital realm.
Our first speaker will be Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English at Rice University and author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory; What Is Posthumanism? and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. Dr. Wolfe will speak Monday, April 14, 3:30-5:30 in BTSU 201.
On May 1, at 5 pm in 201 BTSU, Dr. Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Professor of American Studies at the University of Michigan, will speak on “Digilantes, Vulnerable Bodies, and Hyperbolic Violence on the Internet.” Dr. Nakamura’s publications include Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet; Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, and Race After the Internet.