Abu Ghraib: The Pornography of Warfare
Symposium
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 1-5 pm

What do the Abu Ghraib photographs tell us about the American War on Terror? About American beliefs and tastes? About visual culture as it relates to this and other wars? This symposium offers wide-ranging perspectives on the photographic legacy of Abu Ghraib by eminent scholars from the Chicago area.

Organized by Hannah Higgins, UIC Associate Professor
“State of the Union: Jesus Comes to Abu Ghraib”
— W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago

“The Abu Ghraib Effect: Art and the Apologetics of Power”
---— Stephen Eisenman, Northwestern University

“National Visual Culture and the War in Iraq”
— Shawn Michelle Smith, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“The Self-Shattering Peace: War and Sexuality”
— Gregg Bordowitz, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Peter Bacon Hales, UIC, Respondent