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Grad/Faculty Seminar with Eyal Weizman - Forensic Aesthetics and Architcture

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Eyal Weizman
Rethinking Israel

In the aftermath of World War II, two notorious Nazi villains were exposed in different ways. Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem in 1960, beginning the ''era of the witness'' in the prosecution of human rights abuses. Josef Mengele escaped Germany and lived out his life hidden in Argentina. After Mengele's death in 1985, his body was identified on an examining table in a morgue by a group of forensic scientists in Brazil. Weizman and Thomas Keenan¿s Mengele¿s Skull, explores the emergence of the object in human rights, the conditions of its presentation, and the aesthetic operations involved in deciphering the ''speech of things.''RSVP REQUIRED at: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/weizman-seminar-signupEyal Weizman is an architect, professor and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007 and a co-recipient of the 2010 Prince Claus Prize for Architecture (with Sandy Hilal and Alessandro Petti for DAAR). Weizman¿s books include Mengele's Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sternberg Press 2012), Forensic Architecture (notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), and Civilian Occupation (coedited with Rafi Segal and David Tartakover; Verso, 2003).Eyal Weizman¿s visit is part of the ¿Rethinking Israel¿ series, which is generously sponsored by the Sara and E.J. Evans Fund.

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