Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii, at Manoa
Programme
9.00-9.15 –
Introduction
Dr Luis
Lobo-Guerrero, convenor of the Emerging Securities Research Unit
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
10.30-12.00 –
Keynote Address
Professor Michael
Shapiro (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Against
Explanation: Thinking politically after the aesthetic turn
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
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
-- 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/