[p2p-research] Fwd: Touching War publicity for April --please distribute

Sun Mar 29 03:02:31 CEST 2009

Hi All
I dont know if you know anyone interested or if you are interested in this
and are near enough to attend , its 3 april in lanactser one hour from
manchester
it should be quite good.

cheers
athina

*******Touching War: April  *

*******The Final**************** Event******** (for now)*

********

********

*******Touching War*, which I******** have been directing this academic year
with the Politics/IR department, under IAS and LU Film Society sponsorship,
formally******* concludes this month* with the theme******* Bodies of
War*. Open
to all.******* *
***http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/touchingwar/*<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/touchingwar/>.

Professor Christine Sylvester, Politics/IR
(***c.sylvester at lancaster.ac.uk*<c.sylvester at lancaster.ac.uk>
)

*******Workshop: Where Are the Bodies of War?*

*******Friday, April 3, 9:45-5:30, IAS room 2/3. Wine Reception Follows*****
***.* Sponsored by IAS.

*******Talks by*********

*****Brigitte Holzner*, Director of Gender and Development at the Austrian
Development Agency. Author of numerous articles on overseas development,
most recently of “Legal Pluralism in the Family Law: Implications for
Development Policy,” in***** Family, Law, Religion. Debates and Cases in the
Muslim Worlds* (2009), “Agrarian Restructuring and Gender – Designing Family
Farms in Central and Eastern Europe,”***** Gender, Place and Culture*
 (2008), “The Theatre of War,”***** Forced Migration Review* (2007), “Gender
Habitus und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Stärken und Grenzen Bourdieu’scher
Konzepte,” in***** Politik - Programme - Projekte. Menschenorientierte
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Sinne von Bourdieu* (2007), and “Youth,
Sexuality and Sex Education Messages in Indonesia: Issues of Desire and
Control,”***** Reproductive Health Matters* (2004).

*****Athina Karatzogianni* (Media, Culture and Society, Hull) Author
of***** The
Politics of Cyberconflict* (2006), co-author of***** Power, Conflict and
Resistance: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies* (2009), and editor
of***** Cyber Conflict and Global Politics* (2009). She has also written
on cross-disciplinarity, the open source movement, and war coverage in
global hotspots.

*****Adi Kuntsman* (Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures,
Manchester) A Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Research Institute for
Cosmopolitan Cultures, Kuntsman is co-editor of***** Out of Place:
Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality* (2008), and author
of***** Figurations
of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in
Cyberspace and Beyond* (forthcoming).

*****Pat Noxolo* (Geography, Loughborough) A lecturer in Human Geography,
Noxolo has written “Negotiating Security: Governmentality and
Asylum/Immigration NGOs in the UK,” in***** Spaces of Security and
Insecurity: New Geographies of the War on Terror*, eds. K. Dodds and A.
Ingram (forthcoming) and “Freedom, Fear and NGOs: Balancing Discourses of
Violence and Humanity in Securitising Times,” in***** Development and
Colonialism: the Past in the Present*, ed. M. Duffield and V. Hewitt
(forthcoming)

*****Cami Rowe* (Politics/IR Lancaster). An IR PhD student with a
performance background, Rowe has presented papers at several International
Studies Association (ISA) conferences in the USA, most recently on "Violent
Women for Peace" and "That Whole Gender Paradigm: Antiwar Veterans
Redefining Security." She also helped script and perform the Collaging IR2
innovative panel at the ISA (2009) organized by Professor Christine
Sylvester.

*****Workshop Schedule*******

*****9:45 Coffee*

*10:00-10:10 Introduction by Professor Christine Sylvester,* Director of
Touching War

*****10:15-11:00 Keynote Address: Dr. Brigitte Holzner* (Gender and
Development at the Austrian Development Agency), “ Peace and Security
Through Gender Policy?

Development policy and practice are increasingly challenged by the
consequences of war and armed conflict that not only destroy livelihoods but
also are more and more fought on women’s bodies. I shall present policy
responses to the human rights violations of women in war and armed conflict
as stipulated by resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and
taken up in National Action Plans. The discussion will concentrate on
notions of gender, gendered security, and gender justice in those policies,
and weave in issues of war crimes at Srebrenica and the work of the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission in Liberia.

*****11:00-11:30 Discussion led by Christine Sylvester*

*****11:30-12:00 Pat Noxolo* (Geography, Loughborough) “Securitisation,
Migration and NGOS Since 9/11,”

Examines short-term and potential long-term changes in the spatial practices
and spatial imaginary of UK-based NGOs concerned with asylum/immigration, in
response to an asylum/security nexus arising around the terrorist attacks on
September 11th (9/11) and July 7th (7/7).

*****12:00-12:30 Discussion led by Brigitte Holzner*

*****12:30-1:45 Lunch*

*****1:45-2:15 Adi Kuntsman* (Cosmopolitan Cultures, Manchester) “The
Cybertouch of War: Visuality, Circulation and Affect”

Based on studying the Russian-speaking Internet as post-Soviet ‘diaspora
space,’ Kuntsman explores the growing Islamophobia, Orientalism and racial
hatred in Russian-language websites, blogs and discussion forums against the
backdrop of a globalised ‘war on terror,’ post 9-11 US politics, and the
Russian-Chechenian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. Notes complex
connections between nationalism and migration, violence and reconciliation,
and the bloody materiality of wars and their reverberations in cyberspace

*****2:15-2:45 Discussion led by Pat Noxolo*******

*****2:45 Break for Coffee*

*****3:00-3:30 Athina Karatzogianni* (Media, Culture and Society, Hull),
“The Body and Technology in the War Machine”******

Addresses several body-erasing aspects of contemporary warfare. Included are
facets of the revolution in military affairs that emphasize unmanned
vehicles and especially ICTs, as well as soldiers-mercenaries, private
companies and contracts personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan who staff private
detention centres and are implicated in prison torture. Also considers the
body in resistance to such body-erasing strategies.

*****3:30-4:00 Discussion led by Swati Parashar*******

*****4:00******-4:30****** Cami Rowe* (Politics/IR, Lancaster), “Re-embodying
Unknown Soldiers”

Highlights performative antiwar protest actions by American veterans of the
"War on Terror" and demonstrates the ways that veterans are rescuing notions
of soldierliness from pro-war rhetoric through dramatic references to
embodied violence and victimhood.

*****4:30-5:00 Discussion led by Christine Sylvester *

*5:00-5:30 W******ays forward led by Brigitte Holzner and Christine
Sylvester*******

*****5:30 Wine Reception *

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*Sponsored by*

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-- 
Dr Athina Karatzogianni
Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society
The University of Hull
United Kingdom
HU6 7RX
phone: ++44 (0) 1482 46 5790

Check out Athina's work:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cyberconflict+edge+of+chaos%3a+cryptohierarchies+and+self-organisation...-a0194549147

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Resistance-Conflict-Contemporary-World/dp/0415452988/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-conflict-Politics-Contemporary-Security-Studies/dp/0415459702/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyberconflict-Routledge-Research-Information-Technology/dp/0415396840/

http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/135.php

http://www.socialissuescollection.com/

scissec.scis.ecu.edu.au/anzsys08/proceedings/2002/papers_full/07.pdf

Press interviews:

France:http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-924253,0.html
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/180599/Monde-La-Chine-a-soif-d-informations.php
Greece:http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=78490200
Brazil:
http://jbonline.terra.com.br/editorias/internacional/papel/2007/11/04/internacional20071104008.html
http://jbonline.terra.com.br/editorias/internacional/papel/2007/05/20/internacional20070520003.html
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