The program for ‘The Body of War’ Symposium at Lancaster in November has just been announced. It’s organized around four panels and three keynotes:
(I) The Drones Imaginaria
- Andreas GRAAE (University of Southern Denmark), The Bipolar Drone Queen: Intimacy and Distance in Showtime’s Homeland
- Peter LEE (Portsmouth), Death, Truth and Knowing in the Drones Imaginarium
- Claudette LAUZON (Simon Frazer University, Canada), Drones Gone Wild, and Other Unruly Bodies of War
ADAM HARVEY: Algorithmic control and violence through latent biometrics
(II) Drone warfare: evolution and new challenges
- Heather HAYES (Whitman College, USA), The Dawn of Humanitarian Weapons: Discourses of a Kinder, Friendlier Killing Machine
- Oliver DAVIS (Warwick), Theorizing the Advent of Weaponized Drones as Techniques of Domestic Paramilitary Policing
- Bianca BAGGIARINI (Toronto) & Sean RUPKA (CUNY), Remembering the Drone Wars: Disembodied Combat and the Trauma Lacuna
(III) Theorizing ‘Enmity’ in the age of global counterterrorism
- Edward FAIRHEAD (Kent, UK), The ‘Enemy’ of Obama’s Targeted Killing Regime
- Elisabeth SCHWEIGER (Edinburgh), Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed: The Political Connotations of the Concept of ‘Targeted Killing’ in International Law
- Elke SCHWARZ (Leicester), Flesh Vs. Steel: Antithetical Materialities in (Counter) Terrorism Warfare
DAVID COOK: The routinization of martyrdom operations in the age of IS and Boko Haram
(IV) The Bodies of the Enemy
- Caroline HOLMQVIST (Université libre de Bruxelles), Spectres of War
- Charlotte HEATH-KELLY (Warwick), ISIS and the Hysteric: Desiring the Enemy through Lacan
- Arthur BRADLEY (Lancaster), Lethal Force: Contract, Conflict, Killing
DEREK GREGORY: Drones and the prosthetics of military violence
You can find more information here.
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