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SUMMARY:Derek Gregory - 'Deadly embrace: war\, distance and intimacy' - Pr
 ofessor Derek Gregory
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DESCRIPTION:Free for CUGS members\, £2 for non-members\n\n"It has become 
 common place to claim that contemporary wars are fought from a distance: T
 he iconic version is the drone missions flown over Afghanistan\, Pakistan 
 and elsewhere from the United States.\n\nYet wars have been waged at a dis
 tance throughout history\, and we need a surer sense of the historical cur
 ve through which military violence has shaped (and been shaped by) the fri
 ction of distance. \n\nBut we also need a sharper calibration of wars geog
 raphy\, including the media used to convey the theatre of war to distant a
 udiences\, the logistics that convey military forces to those distant thea
 tres\, and the introduction of new weapons systems that threaten new forms
  of time-space compression.\n\nAnd yet for all these changes the 'death of
  distance' - and the distance of death - in the liquid world of late moder
 nity has been greatly exaggerated\, and there remains a stark intimacy to 
 many killing spaces that also requires careful reflection."\n
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Geography Department\, Downing Site
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