[NetBehaviour] [GENT] CEVI Workshop: After 9/11 - The Politics of Terror and the Terror of Politics - Monday 12 March 2012

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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








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