CEVI Workshop AFTER 9/11 - THE POLITICS OF TERROR AND THE TERROR OF POLITICS http://www.cevi-globalethics.ugent.be/newsandevents#Upcoming
Monday 12 March 2012 - 13:00 - 18:00 Universiteit Gent, Blandijnberg 2, lokaal 0.34 Hosted and organized by CEVI-Ghent, in collaboration with CAPPE-University of Brighton, UK Bob Brecher _ Vivienne Matthies-Boon _ Sami Zemni _ Gaston Meskens _ Paul Reynolds _ Marko Stamenkovic Workshop Theme The 9/11 attacks shocked the world. The staging and impact of the attacks categorically transcend the local. The attacks, televised worldwide in real time, stunned and choked all of us viewers, leaving us wondering who ‘they’ were, and who, where and how ‘we’ were in this highly mediatised ‘danse macabre’ of violence. The attacks have increasingly become an ever more global event and meme, permeating and altering politics, diplomacy, trust, secrecy, international relations and warfare; but also identity. They were larger than life and left a permanent imprint on our collective ways of experiencing, thinking and dealing with terrorism, international politics and religion, and ultimately, with ourselves and others. Taking 9/11 as a cue, but also moving beyond, this one-day event seeks to question and explore the ways in which the politics of terror have touched, transformed and tainted our lives as extras on the stage of international politics. We also seek, however, to raise question about the terrors of the politics that have set the stage for, and have been imposed as a result of, the attacks, at once asserting and disrupting the comfort zone of ‘politics as usual’ as the rightful ‘us’ versus the evil ‘them.’ Format It is not our intention to stage a full-fledged conference, but rather to provide an informal and open space for discussion and thought. Presenters will give brief (20 minutes, or less) talks to kick off discussions. Provisional Program 13:00 Workshop Welcome 13:10 – 13:50 - Bob Brecher - Why There is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism 13:50 – 14:30 - Vivienne Matthies-Boon - What Counts as Terror? Comments on (Post)Mubarak’s Egypt 14:30 – 15:10 - Sami Zemni - The Terror of Crisis: What’s Up With Multiculturalism? 15:10 – 15:30 - Coffee Break 15:30 – 16:10 - Gaston Meskens - The Politics of Nuclear Terror and the Terror of Nuclear Politics (provisional title) 16:10 – 16:50 - Paul Reynolds - Discipline, Brutal Somatechnics and the Normalisation of Abjection: Biopolitics after 9/11 16:50 – 17:30 - Marko Stamenkovic - Not a Matter of Exposure (that destroys the secret but a revelation that does justice to it) 17:30 Workshop Close Abstracts here: http://www.cevi-globalethics.ugent.be/newsandevents Met vriendelijke groet, Prof. Dr. Tom Claes Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry (CEVI): http://www.cevi-globalethics.ugent.be/ Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
