When: 
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 
Hugel 103
Presenter: 
Professor Cassie Hays, Gettysburg College
Price: 
Free
***Postponed to November 7***The word safari recalls a colonial past, resonates in the present, and reaches towards an imagined future of journey and exploration. Safari reverberates not only through time, but through space as well: across the Atlantic and the Sahara and into East Africa. This talk will explore the intimate relationship between perceptions of racial difference and both internal and external nature on safari in Northern Tanzania. Through the movement of safari, technologies of travel—like public media, conservation areas, automobility, photography, and the souvenir—not only enframe the world-as-view, but approach the more poetic aspects of techné. This enables both ‘native’ and natures to be viewed and consumed precisely because they are first fabricated, conjoined and commodified
Sponsored by: 
The Lafayette Forum on Technology and the Liberal Arts, Africana Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, Engineering Division, Engineering Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies

Contact information

Name: 
Benjamin Cohen
Phone: 
(610) 330-3058
Email: 
cohenb@lafayette.edu