Activity Type:
Lecture
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Date:
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Please note ROOM CHANGE to 4130 Posvar Hall
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A dialogue between Deborah Cowen, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, and Brian Holmes, internationally known art critic and cultural theorist.
Deborah Cowen has written extensively on militarism, violence, and security, cities and social justice, and geographies of citizenship and labor. Her most recent book is The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade.
Brian Holmes is a key contributor to Southwest Corridor Northwest Passage, a project on supply chains by Midwest artists/activists, and in 2014 co-organized a series of events in Chicago under the title, Foreign Trade Zone: A People’s Consultancy. His books include Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society.
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
The Humanities Center
the Provost's Year of the Humanitites Initiative
the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies
Department of English
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Department of Studio Arts
Non-University Sponsors:
Global Studies at Carnegie Mellon University
World Regions:
International