Lisa Parks: “Drone Matters: Vertical Mediation in the Horn of Africa”

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Lisa Parks is interested both in the discourses that have been used to expose covert US drone interventions and in the ways that drone operations themselves function as technologies of mediation.

Screening of Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Filmmakers Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione spent months on the front lines documenting North Dakota’s violent response to the peaceful water protectors.