Visual Culture Research Focus Group Presentation
Laurie Monahan (UCSB)
Wednesday, December 1 / 4:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

This will be the first meeting of the Visual Culture Research Focus Group. For this first event, Laurie Monahan will be doing an informal presentation on the widely circulated photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison torture, focusing on the way in which these images were received and circulated in the United States particularly. Participants are asked to read a short story by Marguerite Duras, entitled "Albert of the Capitals," an autobiographical account of her own experience as a member of the French Resistance who participated in the torture of an informer. The reading will be available at the IHC main office, 6046 HSSB, 6th floor.

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