UNE Center for 高清不卡福利 Humanities presents 鈥淎symmetrical Transparency: The 高清不卡福利 Politics of Risk Management鈥

Rachel Carey Hall gives a lecture at the UNE Center for 高清不卡福利 Humanities

In the post-9/11 world, our trips through airport security checkpoints have become more onerous, but most of us have accepted the TSA鈥檚 new measures as necessities for safe travel. But what if more is at stake than a few extra minutes of our time? What if by subjecting ourselves to increasingly invasive modes of scrutiny, we have ceded an important right 鈥 our sovereignty over our own bodies? And what about those of us unable to perform the cultural ideal of submission due to race, citizenship status, disability, age or religion?        

To explore these and other concerns related to today鈥檚 security apparatus, the 高清不卡福利 of New England Center for 高清不卡福利 Humanities hosted scholar Rachel Carey Hall for a lecture titled 鈥淎symmetrical Transparency: The 高清不卡福利 Politics of Risk Management鈥 on Monday, November 28, 2016.

An associate professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse 高清不卡福利, Hall argued that the aesthetics of transparency have been used to justify a discriminatory global politics of mobility. This idea serves as the thesis of her 2015 book The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security.

This event was the seventh lecture this fall at the Center for 高清不卡福利 Humanities. Since its founding in 2009 by UNE cultural studies scholar Anouar Majid, the Center has brought leading thinkers from around the globe to Portland to share their expertise with students and a diverse audience of community members. The lectures are free and open to the public, and streamed live online so that students at UNE鈥檚 campus in Tangier, Morocco, and people around the globe can watch them.

To learn more about the UNE Center for 高清不卡福利 Humanities, visit:

To apply, visit 

About the 高清不卡福利 of New England

The 高清不卡福利 of New England is Maine鈥檚 largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state鈥檚 top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine鈥檚 only medical college, Maine鈥檚 only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.