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Agent Orange Conference |
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Agent Orange Conference: May 7 - 9, 2009.
at the California Museum of Photography
Co-Sponsored by University of California Office of the Pacific Rim Grant Foundation, Center for Ideas and Society, Program of Southeast Asian Studies (SEATRiP), Department of Media and Cultural Studies, and Center for Women in Coalition
Organized by Christina Schwenkel (Anthropology), David Biggs (History) and Lan Duong (Media and Cultural Studies)
By bringing together a diverse and international set of artists, activists, scholars, and veterans, this conference explores how people interpret and depict the war’s multiple legacies, as these legacies persist in haunting the land, human body, and memory. We will organize a series of dialogues that discuss Agent Orange and its impact in multiple discourses: legal, technological, scientific, medical, photography, art, and film. The aim of this conference is not to reproduce existing scientific, political, or disciplinary perspectives on Agent Orange but rather to consider the production of knowledge about Agent Orange and other technologies of war through visual, discursive, and performative modes of representation. Our objective is to bridge disciplines, nationalities, experiences, and generations to interrogate the different discourses surrounding Agent Orange more than three decades after the war has ended. It will feature three inter-disciplinary panels comprised of both persons studying Agent Orange issues and others working on issues related to the underlying theme of the technologies of war. The conference will also showcase the renowned artwork of Goro Nakamura, Doan Duc Minh, Dinh Q. Le, and Binh Danh.
Imagery
- From Binh Danh's series on Agent Orange
- "Damaged Gene" from Dinh Q. Le
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