BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10939-1232d2da393470575b15b1ca332e3c2f@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260414T090911Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T173000 SUMMARY:2024 Center for Democratic Deliberation Kenneth Burke Lecture: Eric King Watts DESCRIPTION:\n“Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalypt ic Politics Devouring the World”\n\nPostracial Fantasies and Zombies exa mines the ghostly and horrifying figure of the zombie across several his torical contexts to examine how it functions as a mode of regenerating a fantasy involving its surveillance\, containment\, and destruction. Wat ts asserts that the zombie is a biotrope that gets repetitively deployed and enjoyed as a blackened biothreat body provoking rituals of securiti zation and weaponization. Beginning in the wake of the Haitian Revolutio n and nineteenth century pseudo-science\, the book charts a course throu gh the zombie’s appearance in early twentieth century films through the post-civil rights and Vietnam eras to show how the zombie becomes a fixt ure in our twenty-first century postracial moment. Watts contends that e ach iteration of the genre produces the zombie as a hate object as a par t of a fantasy involving the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. \n\nEric King Watts is an associate professor of rhetorical studies at t he University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research explores th e manner in which public voice is invented\, performed\, consumed\, and suppressed. In particular\, Watts examines the diverse phenomena of Afri can American public voice and its relation to the representation of the Black body\, the meanings of Blackness\, the shape of civic culture and community\; voice and voicelessness are understood as being impacted by the rhetorical agency of the subject\, the terms of one’s publicity\, an d the power relations that make up one’s various identities.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-burke-lecture_041724/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Postra cial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World”

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies examines the ghostly and horrifying figure of the zombie across several historica l contexts to examine how it functions as a mode of regenerating a fanta sy involving its surveillance, containment, and destruction. Watts asser ts that the zombie is a biotrope that gets repetitively deployed and enj oyed as a blackened biothreat body provoking rituals of securitization a nd weaponization. Beginning in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and ni neteenth century pseudo-science, the book charts a course through the zo mbie’s appearance in early twentieth century films through the post-civi l rights and Vietnam eras to show how the zombie becomes a fixture in ou r twenty-first century postracial moment. Watts contends that each itera tion of the genre produces the zombie as a hate object as a part of a fa ntasy involving the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty.

Eric King Watts is an associate professor of rhetorical s tudies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research explores the manner in which public voice is invented, performed, consum ed, and suppressed. In particular, Watts examines the diverse phenomena of African American public voice and its relation to the representation of the Black body, the meanings of Blackness, the shape of civic culture and community; voice and voicelessness are understood as being impacted by the rhetorical agency of the subject, the terms of one’s publicity, and the power relations that make up one’s various identities.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cdd-burke-lecture_041724/

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