Events - Keele University

Events

The Emerging Securities Unit is actively involved in a number of events.

The Work in Progress seminar series runs in the autumn and spring semesters, offering a forum for the presentation and discussion of ongoing research projects within the university. To download the schedule for the autumn series, please follow this link.

The Emerging Securities Unit will be hosting the 2012 Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium. The colloquium provides a friendly environment for students to present their ideas and receive feedback from other students and scholars in the field, as well as to engage in some lively debates about the future of critical scholarship. The ALGC is organised by students and for students with the support of academic staff. e are inviting abstracts of individual papers as well of panels of three to four papers on any area of critical and post-structuralist approaches to global politics.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words must be sent to Corey Walker-Mortimer no later than 1 March 2012 at the following address: c.b.walker-mortimer@ilpj.keele.ac.uk.

For more information, please visit the ALGC 2012 by clicking on this link.

The Emerging Securities Unit has also been involved with an ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitical Security, which hosted four workshops during the period from November 2008 to February 2011. For reports on the seminar series and the workshops, please follow this link. The most recent workshop, entitled 'Problematising Danger' has a dedicated website with podcasts of the various panels that were held. To visit the website, please follow this link.

On the 7th November 2011, the Emerging Securities Unit will be co-hosting a workshop on the 'Epistemologies of the Political, the Global and the International' with the BISA Poststructuralist Politics Working Group. For more information, please refer to the workshop website, which is available through this link, or the workshop brochure, available through this link. 

Further event information is held on the Biopolitics of Security website. Please follow this link for details.