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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please join us this Friday, April 15 for a new session of Sensing the
Unseen, a seminar series to discuss current scholarship on the sensory and
media modes that people employ to access realms of existence and experience
outside the immediately visible.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>All seminar meetings are free and
open to the public - no registration is required. <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
18.0pt'><a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/obscure.html">The Obscure:
Photographing</a></span></font><br clear=all>
<font size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Friday, April 15, 2:30 - 5:00 PM <br>
@ MIT 56-114 (<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56">Whitaker Building #56</a>,
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Speakers: Karen Strassler (<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Queens</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>), Marianne Hirsch (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Discussants: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Emily Zeamer</st1:PersonName>
(MIT), Sandy Alexandre (MIT)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Karen Strassler The Aura of Power:
Ratu Kidul's Photographic Appearances</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Queen of the Javanese spirit world, commander of an invisible avenging
army, sexual predator, and lover of Central Java's traditional rulers, Ratu
Kidul is a potent figure in Javanese mythology who also has an active presence
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
modern media and political culture. Neither eluding nor haunting the
technological apparatus, Ratu Kidul instead claims photography as her
privileged medium; her photographic appearances reveal the persistence of an
ideology of power's obscurity in an era dominated by dreams of transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Karen Strassler is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Queens</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
of the City University of New York. Her book, Refracted Visions: Popular
Photography and National Modernity in Java (Duke UP 2010), examines how
everyday photographic practices have shaped the ways people in urban Java come
to see themselves as Indonesians. Her current research focuses on media and
political communication in the post-Suharto era, tracing the uncertain nature
of evidence and authority in the aftermath of authoritarianism and the age of
digital reproduction. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Marianne Hirsch "You dont see
me": The Subject of Class Photos</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This paper will reflect on the unseen through a genre of vernacular
photography that has received little, if any, critical attention the school
photo. As group images taken by commercial photographers with few if any
artistic aspirations and little desire to deviate from formulaic
representations, class pictures can nevertheless expose some fundamental
aspects of photography: the relationship between photographer and photographed
subject that they stage, their temporalities and ideologies, their framings and
re-framings, their social and emotional lives and afterlives, their multiple,
sometimes contradictory, meanings. The paper will look both at archival school
photos and at the work of several artists who reframe and comment on school
pictures in their work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Co- Director of the Center
for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. Most recently, together with
Leo Spitzer, she published Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in
Jewish Memory. Among other recent publications are Family Frames: Photography,
Narrative, and Postmemory, The Familial Gaze, a special issue of Signs on
"Gender and Cultural Memory," and Teaching the Representation of the
Holocaust. Her book of essays "The Generation of Postmemory: Gender and
Visuality After the Holocaust" is forthcoming.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>Please plan to join us after the
seminar for an informal reception.</span></font><u1:p></u1:p></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures to be held at MIT in
2010-2011, Sensing the Unseen is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
hosted by MIT Anthropology. Our website provides more details, including
upcoming seminars: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/</a>
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Maps & directions to the Sensing the Unseen seminar can be found here: <a
href="http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html">http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html</a><br>
Sign up to receive email reminders about upcoming seminars: <a
href="https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/unseen_list</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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