[ecrea] 1st CFP: North American In/Securities: A Local-Global Nexus

1st CFP, Abstract Deadline April 30, 2015

North American In/Securities: A Local-Global Nexus

October 1-2, 2015, University of Turku, Finland

The John Morton Center for North American Studies invites proposals for 
previously unpublished papers for a two-day symposium, “North American 
In/Securities: A Local-Global Nexus,” to be held at the University of 
Turku on October 1-2, 2015. The symposium seeks to bring together 
scholars, activists, and artists to discuss 21st century security 
concerns in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and their global 
implications. We are particularly interested in three tensions that 
characterize contemporary security concerns: 1) national security vs. 
human security, 2) policy measures vs. grassroots activism, and 3) 
scholarly discourses vs. artistic interventions. Underscoring the 
multiple scales at which security issues are explicated, experienced, 
and represented, the symposium points to their far-reaching geographic, 
political, socioeconomic, military, and cultural ramifications.

Topics for presentations may include, among others:

·        border in/security

·        contemporary urban uprisings

·        criminal/terrorist insurgencies

·        drug wars in public space

·        trans/national drone wars

·        para/military strategies

·        grassroots activism

·        visual interventions

Please email abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute presentations, 
together with a max. 150-word bio, including name, institutional 
affiliation and position, phone number, and email address to (jmc /at/ utu.fi). 
The deadline for abstracts is April 30, 2015. Participants will receive 
notifications of acceptance by May 15, 2015. For further information, 
please see http://www.utu.fi/en/units/jmc/conferences/.


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