Problematising Danger

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Posted on 25 February 2011

problematising danger The fourth and final event of the ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitical Security was organised by Dr Luis Lobo-Guerrero (SPIRE) at King's College London this week (w/c 22.02.11).  The workshop was the result of a collaboration between the Emerging Securities Research Unit at Keele and the Centre for International Relations, Department of War Studies, King's College London.

The event, 'Problematising Danger', explored the study of contemporary security away from traditional threat-based and risk-based approaches to the topic. Attended by fifty delegates, including participants from the EU and the US, it included papers on areas ranging from terrorism and national risk registers to synthetic biology and biosecurity. The keynote address was delivered by Professor Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam, under the title 'Networked Danger and Speculative Security'. The event was recorded in full and will be broadcast through the Emerging Securities Unit website.    The seminar series, convened by Dr Lobo-Guerrero, was launched at Keele in 2008.

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