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Two decades after the United States launched its “War on Terror,” this global campaign of surveillance and violence continues to disproportionately target certain ethno-religious groups domestically and abroad, through instruments operating outside the channels of government accountability, all in the name of domestic security. Charting the evolution of this largely invisible war and the central role that drones have played in enabling its international reach, this panel will lay out the state of counterterrorism policy today under the presidency of Joe Biden and look towards upcoming legal challenges in the US and in Europe, an oft-overlooked player in the realm of drone warfare.
Featuring:
Spencer Ackerman, journalist and author;
Sonia Kennebeck, filmmaker and journalist;
Chantal Meloni, International Crimes and Accountability, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR);
Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project;
Moderated by Madiha Tahir, journalist and filmmaker.
Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today
This event is part of the symposium Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today, organized by High Line Art and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, in collaboration with writer and researcher Arthur Holland Michel. The symposium is convened by High Line Art in the context of artist Sam Durant‘s High Line Plinth commission Untitled (drone) and the Vera List Center's As for Protocols Focus Theme and was preceded by As for Protocols Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View, September 20, 2021.
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The Vera List Center’s participation in Remote Control is made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Kettering Fund, as well as the members of the Vera List Center Board and The New School.
Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. High Line Art is supported in part, with a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by members of the High Line Plinth Committee and contemporary art leaders committed to realizing major commissions and engaging in the public success of the Plinth: Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Steve Ells, Kerianne Flynn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller and David B. Heller, J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard and Harvey Schwartz, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Amanda and Don Mullen, Douglas Oliver and Sherry Brous, Mario Palumbo and Stefan Gargiulo, Susan and Stephen Scherr, Susan and David Viniar, and Anonymous.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement and High Line Art.
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Hina Shamsi is the director of the ACLU National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. She engages in litigation, research, and policy advocacy on issues including the freedoms of speech and association, privacy and surveillance...
Madiha Tahir is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at ASU. Her current book project, Things Fall Out of the Sky, explores drone and digital warfare and transnational militarism in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands. She is also pursuing a collaborative, multimodal project on the afterlives of the ‘war on terror'...
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Chantal Meloni is associate professor of International criminal law and criminology at the University of Milan (Italy) and senior legal advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) of Berlin (Germany) working on international crimes and accountability. She is included in the list of assistant counsels before the International Criminal Court, where she currently represents victims in the situation in Palestine. She is a member of several national and international research projects on criminal law, international criminal law and victims’ rights. Her research interests focus on issues related to individual responsibility for the commission of international crimes, as well as accountability mechanisms for grave human rights violations, including the protection of the right to life in the context of asymmetric armed conflicts and the legal consequences of unlawful drone strikes. Chantal Meloni is the author of numerous scientific articles, papers and book chapters on international criminal law, including the book “Command Responsibility in International Criminal Law” (Asser T.M.C., 2010), and is the co-editor of the book “Is There a Court for Gaza?” (Asser/Springer 2012).
Hina Shamsi is the director of the ACLU National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. She engages in litigation, research, and policy advocacy on issues including the freedoms of speech and association, privacy and surveillance, discrimination against racial and religious minorities, unlawful use of force, and detention, and torture.
Madiha Tahir is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at ASU. Her current book project, Things Fall Out of the Sky, explores drone and digital warfare and transnational militarism in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands. She is also pursuing a collaborative, multimodal project on the afterlives of the ‘war on terror' funded by Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Tahir is the director of the short documentary film, Wounds of Waziristan, the cofounder of the bilingual, online journal Tanqeed with Mahvish Ahmad, and the co-editor of Dispatches from Pakistan (University of Minnesota Press), a volume of essays on timely issues spearheaded by Vijay Prashad. A former journalist, Tahir received her PhD from Columbia University.
Sonia Kennebeck is an award-winning director and producer and has released three critically-acclaimed independent feature films: NATIONAL BIRD (Berlinale Special 2016), ENEMIES OF THE STATE (TIFF 2020), and UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER (SXSW 2021). She received funding from ITVS, Logan Foundation, International Documentary Association, Sundance, and other foundations, and her work has been distributed by IFC Films, PBS, Netflix, and Hulu. Kennebeck received the 2021 Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award and she was on DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 list. In 2016, Foreign Policy magazine recognized Kennebeck as one of 100 Leading Global Thinkers and she was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Kennebeck is a first-generation college graduate and was born in Malaysia.
