#5: Frames of War 23/01/2019
Wednesday 23 January | 5 - 6.30pm | LHRI | All welcome A Happy New(ish) Year from Quilting Points! We have a few changes to announce. Firstly, our sessions will now take place on Wednesday evenings (23 January, 13 February, 6 March and 27 March). Secondly, and more excitingly, this semester’s programme includes the following two special events: Film Screening , 27 February: Paris Is Burning (a collaboration with Leeds Cineforum) Guest Seminar , 27 March: Griselda Pollock on Anne Emmanuelle Berger’s The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theatre of Gender The first session of the semester will take place on Wednesday 23 January. We will be reading from Butler’s ‘ Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag’ from Frames of War (2009). Written as a critical response to Sontag’s On Regarding the Pain of Others, the essay uses the Abu Ghraib torture photographs to ask whether Sontag is correct to argue that photography has lost its