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Neda Atanasoski Lecture and Graduate Workshop

Professor Atanasoski, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC.
March 29, 2018
4:00PM - 5:30PM
250 Denney Hall | 352 Research Commons

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2018-03-29 16:00:00 2018-03-29 17:30:00 Neda Atanasoski Lecture and Graduate Workshop Neda Atanasoski is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and the director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She specializes in the areas of U.S. and Eastern European media and cultural studies, focusing particularly on the politics of religion and sexuality, postsocialism, human rights and humanitarianism, and war and nationalism. She is the author of the book Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), and has edited and published multiple works, appearing in places such as American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Catalyst, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies. She has also received numerous fellowships, including the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the Center for New Racial Studies, the Hellman Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Luce Foundation initiative on Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs. Professor Atanasoski is currently working on a co-authored manuscript with Kalindi Vora, titled, "Surrogate Humanity: Race, Technolibralism, and the Engineering of Contested Futures."Professor Atanasoski will be visiting campus in March for her lecture, "Surrogate Humanity," based on her co-authored book project. The discussion analyzes the raced and gendered social relations between bodies, both machine and human, which are not generally recognized as such. These relations, too, are part of the fabric of racial liberalism in which practices of reducing the humanity of (racialized) others’ functions continues to buttress and define the value of the human, and what makes us feel human. By tracking the surrogate human effect, Surrogate Humanity exposes how a seemingly neutral technological modernity is in fact infused with the racial, gender, and sexual politics of political modernity, based as they are in racial slavery, colonial conquest and genocide.Please join us in welcoming her to campus!A graduate workshop with Professor Atanasoski will be held on Friday, March 30th from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Research Commons room 352 (located in the 18th Avenue Library). To RSVP, please email Elysse Jones (jones.6187@osu.edu) by noon on Monday, March 26th, 2018. Lunch will be served at the workshop. Space is limited. 250 Denney Hall | 352 Research Commons Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public
March 30, 2018
11:30AM - 1:00PM
250 Denney Hall | 352 Research Commons

Date Range
Add to Calendar 2018-03-30 11:30:00 2018-03-30 13:00:00 Neda Atanasoski Lecture and Graduate Workshop Neda Atanasoski is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and the director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She specializes in the areas of U.S. and Eastern European media and cultural studies, focusing particularly on the politics of religion and sexuality, postsocialism, human rights and humanitarianism, and war and nationalism. She is the author of the book Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), and has edited and published multiple works, appearing in places such as American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Catalyst, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies. She has also received numerous fellowships, including the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the Center for New Racial Studies, the Hellman Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Luce Foundation initiative on Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs. Professor Atanasoski is currently working on a co-authored manuscript with Kalindi Vora, titled, "Surrogate Humanity: Race, Technolibralism, and the Engineering of Contested Futures."Professor Atanasoski will be visiting campus in March for her lecture, "Surrogate Humanity," based on her co-authored book project. The discussion analyzes the raced and gendered social relations between bodies, both machine and human, which are not generally recognized as such. These relations, too, are part of the fabric of racial liberalism in which practices of reducing the humanity of (racialized) others’ functions continues to buttress and define the value of the human, and what makes us feel human. By tracking the surrogate human effect, Surrogate Humanity exposes how a seemingly neutral technological modernity is in fact infused with the racial, gender, and sexual politics of political modernity, based as they are in racial slavery, colonial conquest and genocide.Please join us in welcoming her to campus!A graduate workshop with Professor Atanasoski will be held on Friday, March 30th from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Research Commons room 352 (located in the 18th Avenue Library). To RSVP, please email Elysse Jones (jones.6187@osu.edu) by noon on Monday, March 26th, 2018. Lunch will be served at the workshop. Space is limited. 250 Denney Hall | 352 Research Commons Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public

Neda Atanasoski is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and the director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She specializes in the areas of U.S. and Eastern European media and cultural studies, focusing particularly on the politics of religion and sexuality, postsocialism, human rights and humanitarianism, and war and nationalism. She is the author of the book Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), and has edited and published multiple works, appearing in places such as American QuarterlyCinema JournalCatalyst, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies. She has also received numerous fellowships, including the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the Center for New Racial Studies, the Hellman Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Luce Foundation initiative on Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs. Professor Atanasoski is currently working on a co-authored manuscript with Kalindi Vora, titled, "Surrogate Humanity: Race, Technolibralism, and the Engineering of Contested Futures."

Professor Atanasoski will be visiting campus in March for her lecture, "Surrogate Humanity," based on her co-authored book project. The discussion analyzes the raced and gendered social relations between bodies, both machine and human, which are not generally recognized as such. These relations, too, are part of the fabric of racial liberalism in which practices of reducing the humanity of (racialized) others’ functions continues to buttress and define the value of the human, and what makes us feel human. By tracking the surrogate human effect, Surrogate Humanity exposes how a seemingly neutral technological modernity is in fact infused with the racial, gender, and sexual politics of political modernity, based as they are in racial slavery, colonial conquest and genocide.

Please join us in welcoming her to campus!

A graduate workshop with Professor Atanasoski will be held on Friday, March 30th from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the Research Commons room 352 (located in the 18th Avenue Library). To RSVP, please email Elysse Jones (jones.6187@osu.edu) by noon on Monday, March 26th, 2018. Lunch will be served at the workshop. Space is limited.