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Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi: Middle East Coverage and the Authoritarian Turn in Western Media
The Department of Communication and Media Studies at John Cabot University in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and International Affairs hosted our final talk of the Fall 25 DDD series with Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi. This talk examined the effects of Western coverage of the Middle East. Taking the BBC as a prime example, it argued that Middle East…
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Elisa Giardina Papa: AI, Labor, and Incomputable Data
In this talk, Elisa Giardina Papa outlined the theoretical and archival research which informs two of her video installations, Technology of Care and Cleaning Emotional Data. Presenting images, she collected while working as a “data cleaner” for various AI systems, she addressed the ways in which machines are disciplined and trained to see. Tracing, bounding-boxing, and labeling are…
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Mazen Kerbaj: Gaza In My Phone
Gaza in My Phone collects the complete drawings made by Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj in response to the ongoing genocidal campaign on Gaza. As early as the 9th of October 2023, Kerbaj started drawing in reaction to the horrors that all of us were, and still are, seeing daily on our screens and posting the images on his…
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TJ Demos: Gaza’s Genocide/Ecocide, Technolibertarian Warfare, and the Seeds of Survival.
Professor TJ Demos examines technolibertarianism’s devastating impact in Gaza, linking advanced weaponry, Al surveillance, and settler-colonial policy. Addressing both Lowenstein’s Palestine Laboratory and Vivien Sansour’s art, Demos discusses ongoing resistance, ecological endurance, and warns of dystopian futures where profit overrides life and land. This fusion of libertarian ideology and Israeli policy constructs a deeply troubling…
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Independent Journalism in Israel-Palestine: Navigating Crisis, Censorship, and Survival with +972 Magazine
972 Magazine is an independent, nonprofit online publication founded in 2010 by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Its mission is to deliver in-depth reporting, analysis, and commentary from the ground in Israel-Palestine. Over the years, it has become known for its critical, investigative journalism—particularly during the ongoing war on Gaza. Among its most…
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Molly Crabapple: Art & Creativity on the Frontline
Molly Crabapple talks about the last fourteen years she spent covering the frontlines of global conflict and protest with her sketchpad, from Ukraine and Palestine to her father’s island, Puerto Rico and her hometown of New York City. She speaks about the power of art in the age of ubiquitous images, the threats of AI…
