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Apologies for cross posting List members may be interested in attending: 'Securitising Mobilities and Circulations' a workshop to be held at the Claus Moser Research Centre, University of Keele, 27-28 November 2008 Please register with Rosie Shepherd (see below). WORKSHOP PROGRAMME *_Thursday 27 November_* *_ _* *13.00 -- Registration and coffee* * * *13.30 -- Introduction: * Luis Lobo-Guerrero and Peter Adey (University of Keele) 'Securitising Mobilities and Circulations as a problem space' *14.00 --16:00 * *Panel 1: Biosecurities, Infectious microbes, and pollinators* Javier Lezaun (University of Oxford) ''A New Degree of Connectivity': Bees and Bureaucrats in a changing European landscape' Stefan Elbe (University of Sussex) 'Viral Sovereignty: Microbial Crises of Circulation and the Biopolitics of Security' Nick Bingham, (Department of Geography, The Open University) 'Mapping the multiplicities of biosecurity' Discussant: Ronnie Lippens, University of Keele *16.00 -- tea and coffee* *16.30* Keynote address: Prof. Mark Salter (University of Ottawa) Title to be announced *19.00 -- Drinks reception: Claus Moser Research Centre, lobby* *19.30 -- Workshop Dinner: The Terrace Restaurant, Keele Hall* *_Friday 28 November_* *9.00 Panel 2 * *Targeting circulation, protecting heterotopia* Martin Coward (University of Sussex) 'From 'shock and awe' to '7/7': Attacks on infrastructure as a lens for understanding the contemporary urbanisation of warfare' Peter Adey (University of Keele) 'Reaching through the milieu: air power, kinetics and the ecologies of effects- based targeting' Luis Lobo-Guerrero (University of Keele) 'Infrastructure as Strategised Space': the biopolitics of heterotopia and circulation, and the challenge of critical infrastructure protection' Discussant: Ben Anderson (University of Durham) *11.00-11.15 coffee* *11.30-13.30 * *Panel 3 -- Borders and Bifurcations* Craig Martin (Royal Holloway, University of London) 'Re-securing and the 'Ever-Presence' of the Accident' Emily Jackson (University of Durham) 'Art, freedom and re-thinking biopolitical security' Louise Amoore and Alexandra Hall (University of Durham) 'Taking People Apart: Digitised Dissection and the Body Border' Chris Rumford (Royal Holloway, University of London) 'Borders and Fetishised Mobilities: a cosmopolitan perspective' Discussant: Michael Dillon (University of Lancaster) *13.30-14.30 Lunch* *14.30-15.30 Roundtable and conclusion* For registration details please contact: Rosie Shepherd Claus Moser (Room CM1.12) Keele University Staffs ST5 5BG Telephone: 01782 733245 E-mail: [log in to unmask] All best wishes, Peter Adey and Luis Lobo-Guerrero -- Dr Peter Adey Lecturer in Cultural Geography Earth Sciences and Geography, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG UK [log in to unmask]