Programme (see abstracts below)

Claus Moser Building, CM0.12,  Keele University

7th November 2011

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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

Eddy S. Fang (Cambridge) - International Political Economy, Post-structural Politics and Islamic Finance

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