[eccr] Security Bytes Interdisciplinary Colloquium Lancaster University

>Security Bytes
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>Security/Life/Terror
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>Interdisciplinary Colloquium
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>July 17th - 19th 2004
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>Department of Politics & International Relations
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>Lancaster University
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>***Apologies for cross-posting***
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>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'.
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>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.
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>Confirmed speakers include:
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>Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual
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>Michael Shapiro, author of Violent Cartographies
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>Kathryn Hayles, author of How we became post-human
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>Richard Doyle, author of Wetwares:  Experiments in Postvital Living
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>Confirmed panels include:
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>The Terror, Locating Security, PeaceWar, Society Must be Defended, 
>Aesthetics of Fear, Beyond Security, The Camp
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>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.
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>Please send proposals to Danielle Beswick, Conference Administrator, 
>Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, 
>Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, United 
>Kingdom.  Email:  <mailto:(d.beswick /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>(d.beswick /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)
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>See our website for further information and on-line booking forms at
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><http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/politics/rsch/security 
>bytes.htm>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/politics/rsch/security%20bytes.htm
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>Proposal Deadline: 1 March 2004
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>Booking Deadline: 1 April 2004

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