Military Imaginaries: Exhibition & Symposium

Military Imaginaries is an immersive exhibition that critically examines the visual regime of the U.S. military and the broader militarization of culture. The images were captured in 2012–2013 at Fort Irwin California where soldiers train in simulated Middle Eastern villages in the U.S. desert. Framed as “cultural training” meant to save lives these simulations raise pressing questions about the role of operational images and how they circulate within military and media infrastructures.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a day-long symposium on the 27th.

How can you participate? Register to join us in person (select both morning and afternoon to attend the entire day) or online via Zoom or by watching live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOJMoIqrd5vJDPIWZz7s_Q

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

SCHEDULE:

MAY 27 

10am: Doors open

10:30am-12pm: Selling (In)Security through the Commercial War Image - Opening Keynote by

Shimrit Lee Ph.D. Associate Faculty Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

12pm-1:30pm: Lunch break

1:30-3:30pm: Mediating violence: Visual Culture & Countervisuality in Times of Conflict -

Roundtable + Q&A. Speakers: Gabrielle Marcoux Ph.D. Milena Buziak MA Marie-Hélène

Leblanc Ph.D. Natalia Espinel-Quintero MA; moderator: Alexandra Martin Ph.D.

4pm-5:00pm: War Subjects: Of and Against the Environment of Terror - Closing

Keynote (virtual mode) by Svitlana Matviyenko Ph.D. Associate Professor School of

Communication Simon Fraser University

5pm-6pm: Expo - Open visit

MAY 28

10am-12pm: Expo - Open visit

12pm-2pm Expo - Guided visit + Public exchange with the artist-researcher and the curator

2 pm - Expo closes