Military Training and Compelling Experience

MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a "compelling experience" for military simulation -- and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations.

The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International

MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA

Sohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."