Value, Security and Life

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Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero

Posted on 22 January 2010 The Biopolitics of Value(s), the third workshop of the ESRC Contemporary Biopolitical Securities seminar series, co-organised by the Biopolitics of Security Research Unit at Keele (Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice (iLPJ), took place at the Moser Centre this week.

The workshop, convened by Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero (School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy/iLPJ), pictured above, was attended by 38 scholars of ten different nationalities and was used to explore the relationship between value, security and life.

The keynote address entitled 'Value and the subject of security: the Nietzschean moment' was delivered by Professor J. Peter Burgess, editor of the journal Security Dialogue and Leader of the Security Programme at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO).

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