Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:46:45 +1100
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Security Bytes
Security/Life/Terror
Interdisciplinary Colloquium 

July 17th - 19th 2004
Department of Politics & International Relations
Lancaster University

Security bites. Security identifies 'life' as that which needs
securing.  But what is the 'life' that is to be secured?  And why is it
that in 'securing life', life itself is always threatened?  From the
microbe to the machine to the machinegun, security breeds insecurity. 
By considering how security bytes, this colloquium focuses attention
upon the increasing convergence of digital networks, images, and formats
with biopolitical, post-biological, and subatomic 'life'.

The Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster
University is hosting this interdisciplinary conference from July
17th-19th  2004 to address  emerging debates at the nexus of
securitization, digitialization, and molecularization and their
implications for a broad understanding of global politics and
developmental life.

Confirmed speakers include:

Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual
Michael Shapiro, author of Violent Cartographies
Kathryn Hayles, author of How we became post-human
Richard Doyle, author of Wetwares:  Experiments in Postvital Living

Confirmed panels include:

The Terror, Locating Security, PeaceWar, Society Must be Defended,
Aesthetics of Fear, Beyond Security, The Camp

Additional paper abstracts and panel proposals of no more than 400 words
are solicited from scholars in any discipline whose work creatively
engages with these themes.  Explorations of how security bytes using
digital media (short films, photo essays, small installations) are also
welcome.  

Please send proposals to Danielle Beswick, Conference Administrator,
Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster
University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, United Kingdom.  Email: 
d.beswick-AT-lancaster.ac.uk
See our website for further information and on-line booking forms at
http://www.lancs.acluk/users/politics 

Proposal Deadline: 1 March 2004
Booking Deadline: 1 April 2004


_______________________________________________________________

Dr. Anthony Burke
Lecturer in International Relations
School of History and Politics
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia
ph. 61 8 8303 5603 fax. 61 8 8303 3446
email: a.burke-AT-adelaide.edu.au

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