12-14 September 2007
Where once it was the ‘Cold War’ whose ideological demands and material determinations shaped the structures, priorities and directions of all our lives, today it is the ‘War on Terrorism’. ‘The End of History,’ the death of ideology and the triumph of the liberal order, heralded in the aftermath of 1989, have been replaced by the ideology of neo-liberal governance. That ideology and its material demands today constitute the reality of everyday life – and death – of more and more people around the world.
This conference interrogated the basic idea which makes that possible: the notion of terror. First it analysed this notion and those that surround it: ideas such as ‘terrorism,’ ‘fundamentalism,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘freedom’. Second, it investigated the material and historical realities concerned: the Middle East; economic inequality; oil; and the marketisation of life and death.
Keynote speakers:
Suvendi Perera
Craig Murray
Duncan Campbell
Conference Programme
Wednesday 12 September 2007
10.45-11.45: Registration at MAYFIELD HOUSE, University of Brighton, Falmer
(Tea and Coffee available, Room 101, Mayfield House)
11.45-1.00: Room 129, Mayfield House WELCOME: BOB BRECHER KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SUVENDRINI PERERA
1.00-2.00: Lunch, Room 101, Mayfield House
2.00-3.30: Session 1
Panel 1 : Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, Room 102, Mayfield House
Shahrar Ali, University of London, UK
Is there a justifiable shoot to kill policy?
Karen Murphy, University College Dublin, Eire
Religious and cultural freedoms in the ‘post 9/11’ era:
exploring the balance between human rights & national security
Panel 2: The Meaning of Terror, Room 103, Mayfield House
Christos Boukalas, Lancaster University, UK
The war on terrorism discourse and the recurrence of Schmitt’s ‘political’: existential enemy and the new configuration of the ‘We’ subject
Bill Durodié, Cranfield University, UK
Misunderstanding the meaning of contemporary terrorism
Panel 3: Terrorism and Global Politics, Room 114, Westlain House
Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK
Fundamentalism and Iran
Adejoh Reuben, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
Historicizing the origin and contemporary dimension of religious fundamentalism in Nigeria
3.30-4.00: Tea and Coffee, Room 101, Mayfield House
4.00-5.30: Session 2
Panel 1 : Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, Room 102, Mayfield House
Arthur Cools, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Hegel’s logic of the appearing of terror
Ronen Shayovitz, Cardiff University, UK
The dialectical maelstrom of terror and counter-terror
Panel 2: Representing Terror, Room 103, Mayfield House
Julia Boll, The University of Edinburgh, UK
More authenticity? The use of testimony in the portrayal of terrorism and war on stage
Hugh Ortega Breton, Roehampton University, UK
The constitution of terror in a paranoid style
7.00pm: Conference Drinks
Thursday 13th September 2007
9.00-9.45: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DUNCAN CAMPBELL Room 129, Mayfield House
10.00-11.30: Session 3
Panel 1: Representing Terror, Room 102, Mayfield House
Stuart Price, De Montfort University, UK
The economics of utterance: mediated rhetoric and sign value in the ‘war on terror’
Rania Sweis, Stanford University, USA
Sufism’s othering: Islam, governmentality and the Orientalization of religious discourse, from past to present
Panel 2: Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, Room 103, Mayfield House
Fran Cetti, Refugee Studies, University of East London, UK
Seeking asylum in the shadow of Europe’s ‘war on terror’: the centrality of the refugee to the ‘politics of fear’ in the era of globalisation
Mark McGovern, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK
Ignatieff, Ireland and the lesser evil? Some problems with the lessons learnt
Panel 3: Conceptualising Terror, Room 114, Westlain House
Larisa Korobeynikova, Tomsk State University, Russia
Soft globalisation against terrorism
Jasdev Rai, Sikh Human Rights Group, London, UK
The emergence and survival of terror as an ideology against the near omnipotent state
11.30-12.00 Tea and Coffee, Room 101, Mayfield House
12.00-1.30: Session 4
Panel 1: The Meaning of Terrorism, Room 102, Mayfield House
Mats Fridlund, Technical University of Denmark
Learning to live with terror: domestication of fear and development of terror- mindedness during three regimes of urban terror, 1914-2007
Simon Speck, University of Derby, UK
Sociology as ideology? Anthony Giddens, the terrorist threat and the abuse of ‘risk’
Panel 2: Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, Room 103, Mayfield House
Anne Schwenkenbecher, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
How to define terrorism
Jeff Noonan Associate Professor University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Fundamentalism and cognitive disorder: the limits of philosophical criticism
1.30-2.30: Lunch, Room 101, Mayfield House
2.30-4.00: Session 5
Panel 1: Philosophy, Democracy and Terrorism, Room 102, Mayfield House
Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill University, UK
The clash of barbarisms: terror, normalisation and the end of ethics – barbarism and its consequences
Don Wallace, University of Central Missouri, USA
(Coauthor Akis Kalaitzidis, University of Central Missouri, USA)
Torture and the demise of the justiciable standard of the enlightened and civilized government: a U.S. perspective
Panel 2: Terrorism and Global Politics, Room 103, Mayfield House
Sebastiaan Garvelink, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Terrorism as an unlawful crime.
Loiuse Purbrick, University of Brighton, UK
Hunger strikes and the ‘war of position’: Long Kesh/Maze to Guantanamo Bay
7.00pm: Conference Drinks
Friday 14th September 2007
9.00- 9.45: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CRAIG MURRAY Room 129, Mayfield House
10.00-11.30: Session 6
Panel 1: Representing Terror, Room 102, Mayfield House
Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Photography, engagement and the Israeli occupation
Terry Meade, University of Brighton, UK
The destruction and rebuilding of domestic spaces in occupied Palestine
Panel 2: Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, 103, Mayfield House
Bettina Köthke, Institute of Philosophy, Leipzig University, Germany
The role of conventions in opposing the self defence argument for Palestinian terrorism
Panel 3: Terrorism and Global Politics, Room 114, Westlain House
Mikkel Thorup, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Anarchists and Partisans – terrorist figures from the history of irregular war
Martin Evans, University of Portsmouth, UK
Algerian politics and the war against terror
11.30-12.00: Tea and Coffee, Room 101, Mayfield House
12.00-1.30: Session 7
Panel 1: Representing Terror, Room 102, Mayfield House
Mahmoud Ali Hamed, University of Brighton, UK
Holy books and terror manuals
Judith Watson, University of Brighton, UK
“Wikipedia – war continued by other means?”
Panel 2: Philosophy, Democracy and Terror, Room 103,Mayfield House
Aaron Winter, University of Brighton, UK
American terror: remembering the Birmingham and Oklahoma city bombings in the post-9/11 era
Magnus-Sebastian Kutz, University of Dublin, Eire and University of Hamburg, Germany
Shaping public perception: The Bush adminstrations’ framing of the Iraq war 2003
1.30-2.30: Lunch, Room 101, Mayfield House
2.30-3.30: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PANEL DISCUSSION Room 129, Mayfield House
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