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Evidence and Human Rights in a Post-Truth World: A Multidisciplinary Symposium

A two-part lecture and workshop series, exploring the politics, aesthetics, affect, and interpretation of geospatial images.


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Digital model of the Cerro de Pasco mining operation in Pasco region of Peru. (Photo: SITU. Reprinted with permission.)


EVENTS
RSVP is required for admission. Click the RSVP button under each event to register. Click the title to learn more about the topics.

  • Cultural Memory under Fire: Documenting the Destruction and Preservation of Archives and Libraries in the Wars of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
    Thursday, January 16, 5:30 PM
    Exploration Room, UCLA Luskin Conference Center


  • Cultural Destruction, Technology, and the Future of Human Rights Practice
    Friday, January 17, 9:00 AM
    111 GSE&IS Building


  • Forensic Architecture: Socialising Evidence
    Friday, February 21, 5:00 PM
    UCLA James Bridges Theater


  • Evidence and Human Rights in a Post Truth World: Eyal Weizman and the Forensic Architecture Project
    Saturday, February 22, 10:00 AM
    248 Dodd Hall


ABOUT THE SERIES
The arena of human rights documentation has never been more critical to global justice, and is also undergoing radical change as a result of new systems of evidentiary production inspired by satellite and other innovative information technologies. Geospatial and sensing technologies include a range of tools used in the discovery, collection, presentation, analysis and management of location-based data. These tools are changing how we see and interpret suffering bodies, infrastructural destruction and cultural as well as human genocide. They are raising questions about whether mass atrocities and other violence committed against large numbers of civilians are demonstrable and prosecutable through new digital forms of forensic practice. At the same time, they raise the hopes and expectations of survivors of victims and the missing, who are clamoring for evidence collected by citizens and NGOs to be accorded the same evidentiary authority as that created by government authorities.

This two-part lecture/workshop series explores the politics, aesthetics, affect, and interpretation of geospatial images as well as the architectures of knowledge production and the challenges that emerge when using these technologies. By inviting key leaders in the field for two 2-day events during Winter Quarter 2020 (January 16-17 and February 21-22), we will engage in discussion concerning how social scientists, lawyers, human rights advocates, architects and artists use these technologies to produce composite knowledge about critical events.


SPONSORS
Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of Anthropology, UCLA Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross-Campus Affairs, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, The Re-thinking Justice Project, UCLA Arts Initiative, UCLA Center for Information as Evidence, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,The Wende Museum


ORGANIZERS (UCLA)
Kamari Clarke (Anthropology), Anne Gilliland (Graduate School of Education & Information Studies/Archival Studies), Laurie Kain Hart (Anthropology/Global Studies), Saloni Mathur (Art History), Susan Slyomovics (Anthropology/Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)


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Published: Wednesday, January 8, 2020

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