Dear All,
Please find attached the program for the 'Epistemologies of The Political,
The Global and The International' workshop to be held at Keele University
on the 7th of November, welcoming Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii as
it's Keynote. Abstracts are also attached. To find out more or to express
interest in attending please email myself or check out our website:
http://epistemologiesofthepolitical.blogspot.com/
*Epistemologies of the Political, the Global and the International*
7th November 2011
Keele University, Claus Moser Building, CM0.12
Organised by the Emerging Securities Research Unit
Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii, at Manoa
Programme
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*9.00-9.15 -- Introduction *
Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero, convenor of the Emerging Securities Research Unit
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*9.15-10.30 -- Interventions on Investigatory Epistemology*
Chair: Professor Ronnie Lippens
Corey Walker-Mortimer (Keele) - /The Biopolitics of Design /
Rhys Machold (Balsillie) - /Urban Security "Best Practices": Toward an
anti(political) epistemology?/
Erzsebet Strausz (Aberystwyth) - /The epistemology of (IR) ontologies:
life on the "/" of power/knowledge/
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*10.30-12.00 -- Keynote Address*
*Professor Michael Shapiro (University of Hawaii at Manoa)*
*/Against Explanation: Thinking politically after the aesthetic turn /*
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*12.00-12.45 -- Lunch*
*12.45-2.00 -- Interventions on Reflexive Epistemology*
Chair: Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Andrea Rossi (Lancaster)- /The making of Man: Human sciences and the
politics of subjectivity/
Joscha Wullweber (Kassel) - /The post-positivist paradox. The power of
mainstream science and the struggle for objectivity /
Adam R. C. Humphreys (Brasenose, Oxford) - /On Faith and Realism: The
Politics of Causal Analysis in International Relations/
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*2.00-3.15 -- Interventions on Performative Epistemology *
Chair: Dr Pete Adey
Catherine Charrett (Aberystwyth) - /The Agency of Threat: Acting
politically in the performativity of securitizing terrorism /
Deirdre McKay (Keele) - /Everyday epistemologies of the global/
Cathy Elliott (University College London) -/A Pakistani Spring? The
Lawyers' Movement and the Articulation of Democracy/
Dr Martin Coward (Newcastle) - /Network thinking and the normalisation
of a politics beyond ethico-legal constraint'/
*3.15-4.00 -- Concluding roundtable *
Chair: Dr Barry Ryan
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Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
SPIRE
Keele University
http://www.keele.ac.uk/spire/staff/lobo-guerrero/
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of War Studies
King's College London
New book: Insuring Security -biopolitics, security and risk
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415583435/
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Corey Walker-Mortimer
PhD Candidate
Research Assistant to the Biopolitics of Security Network Website
Managing Editor to the InSpire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies
Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice
Claus Moser Building
Keele University, ST5 5BG
United Kingdom
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