May 11, 2012
| Co-Sponsored Event: Literature { } Religion: First Annual Conference for the Study of Literature and Religion at UCI 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Humanities Gateway 1010 Keynote Address: Jack Miles, "Literary Art as Religious Revelation Lunchtime Discussion Group: "Interdisciplinary Encounters on Religion, Law, and Ethics" Presenters include: Michael Bruner (Azusa Pacific University); Charles DiSimone (Stanford University); George Dutton (UCLA); Keren He (Stanford University); Brian Ingraffia (Calvin College); Adam Kaiserman (UC Santa Barbara); Keith Nelson (UC Irvine); Haein Park (Biola University); Theresa Tinkle (University of Michigan); Shaina Trapedo (UC Irvine); Chaludia Yaghoobi (UC Santa Barbara); Devin Zuber (Graduate Theological Union) Closing Plenary Session: Liam Corley (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona); Jack Miles (UC Irvine); John H. Smith (UC Irvine/U. Waterloo); Craig Woelfel (Claremont McKenna College) The final panel will be followed by a wine and cheese reception with musical accompaniment provided by George Macias (UC Irvine). All are welcome. For more information, please contact the organizing committee (Brian Garcia, Ali M. Meghdadi, and Tae Sung) through the conference website: literatureligion.tumblr.com This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, Associated Graduate Students, and the Center in Law, Society and Culture. For a copy of the flyer, click here. |
May 17, 2012
| Kelli Moore: “Visualizing the Battered Woman Syndrome: Affinities Between the Science of Expert Testimony and Visual Evidence” 12:30 to 2:00 PM, SBSG 1517 Kelli Moore is a doctoral student at the UCSD Department of Communication. Her work deals with the circulation of photographic evidence in cases of domestic abuse. Working at the intersection of critical legal studies, social informatics and visual arts, she examines the role of digital technology on the production of visibility of battered women and situates these practices within ongoing debates about copyright, embodiment, and court-room aesthetics. Before coming to UCSD, Kelli was a Research Associate at the Center for Court Innovation in New York City.ABSTRACT: In 1978 psychologist Lenore Walker adapted “learned helplessness,” a scientific finding among tortured dogs in the field of animal behaviorism to describe battered women’s behavior. The term Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) described complex agency in the context of repeated subjection to violence originally observed through acts of laboratory and clinical surveillance. BWS profiles women’s passivity and non-cooperation in prosecuting batterers and frequent return to abusive relationships as well as describes instances where battered women kill their partners. This resulted in a debate about the clinical and scientific validity of BWS which this talk traces through U.S. case law, legal procedures and ethnographic research in a domestic violence court. More specifically, BWS is considered in context of the Daubert evidentiary standard (replacing the Frye rule in 1993), empowering judges to determine whether scientific evidence is “generally accepted” by the scientific community. And the photographic practices of surveilling battered women in the domestic violence courtroom are crucial to the gradual normalization BWS despite strong claims to its weak scientific validity. Paying close attention to the transition from analogue to digital photography of battered women and the emergence of new medical instruments, the talk details several innovative policing strategies that visually document battered women in order to stabilize complex subjectivity. It then traces the emergence of police photography of battered women to exiled feminist avant-garde art photography. The photojournalism of Donna Ferrato, art installation of Ana Mendieta and self-portraiture of Nan Goldin are examples of feminist photography documenting domestic violence. By considering how the image of battered woman moves into and out of art and legal practices this talk inquires about the significance of an anti-essentialist feminist art criticism that moved to evacuate the female body from representation at the very moment violence against women came to the fore as a political issue adjudicated in U.S. courts by circulating photographic evidence.This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Women's Studies; Criminology, Law and Society; Culture and Theory; Asian-American Studies; and African-American Studies. This event is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be provided.
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May 24, 2012
| Sarah Haley, "The Other(ed) Woman: Criminalization, Gendered Racial Terror, and Jim Crow Punishment" 12:30 to 2:00 PM, SBSG 1517 Sarah received her PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies from 2010-2011. Over the past several years she has also worked in the labor movement, organizing in the academic and hospitality sectors. Sarah began her position as Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Ralph J. Bunche Center Faculty Associate in Fall 2011. Abstract: This talk will examine black women's experiences in Georgia's southern penal regime in the late 19th and early 20th century, discussing both legal and ideological apparatuses of criminalization as well as the institutionalized violence to which black women were subjected in southern convict camps. Black women's experiences on southern convict lease camps and chain gangs provide a lens through which to understand their broader symbolic and material importance to the development of Jim Crow. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies and will be followed by a workshop lead by Prof. Haley for graduate students and faculty interested in black women’s history and the United States carceral system. Please contact Akhila at aananth@uci.edu for more information and to RSVP for the lecture and workshop. |
Descriptions of CLSC's events from 2004 to 2011 can be viewed on the Past Events page.