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Call for abstracts: Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security, Nov 12-13, 2020
Dear colleagues, <br> <br> <br> <br>please see below the call for abstract for our workshop on “Making Europe <br>through infrastructures of (in)security” at Vienna University! <br> <br>Deadline: July 15, 2020 <br> <br> <br> <br>We are looking forward to your contributions! <br> <br>Nina Klimburg-Witjes & Paul Trauttmansdorff <br> <br>(on behalf of the organizing team) <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security <br> <br>Interdisciplinary Workshop <br> <br> <br> <br>12-13 November 2020 <br> <br>University of Vienna <br> <br> <br> <br>Keynote Speakers: <br> <br>Prof. Claudia Aradau (King´s College London) <br> <br>Prof. Annalisa Pelizza (University of Bologna) <br> <br>Prof. Johan Schot (University of Utrecht) <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Organizers: Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Paul Trauttmansdorff, Pouya Sepehr (Dep. of <br>Science and Technology Studies) Katharina T. Paul, Christian Haddad (Dep. of <br>Political Science), Philipp Knopp (Dep. of Sociology) <br> <br>Call for Abstracts <br> <br> <br> <br>With this interdisciplinary workshop, we aim to extend a longstanding concern <br>with the processes and practices of infrastructuring in STS, sociology, <br>political science, and other fields, to emergent forms of surveillance and <br>securitization in Europe. Furthermore, the workshop is inspired by the need to <br>investigate how different arrangements of infrastructures and practices of <br>in/security participate in the making of “Europe” (Aradau, 2010; Pelizza, <br>2019). <br> <br>Infrastructures have always been crucial objects of political promises, <br>desirable futures, and collective imagination, and they have been instrumental <br>for (re)configuring political practices and social values, for in/excluding <br>certain groups of users or enacting populations (Grommé & Ruppert, 2019). <br>Currently, we witness a return to infrastructures in the context of European <br>policies and discourses of in/security. Examples include the so-called <br>“Security Union” proposing technological interconnectivity and <br>interoperability as solutions to contemporary threats, concerns with cyber <br>in/security, infrastructural practices to govern borders and migrations, or <br>projects around “smart cities”. In the most recent moment of <br>infrastructural politics, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed contestations in <br>manifold ways in which different countries in Europe and beyond are responding <br>to in/security in relation to health diplomacy. <br> <br>The workshop will bring these various threads together and collect papers that <br>address the ways in which infrastructures of in/security are designed, <br>envisioned and assembled, and how these infrastructuring practices <br>co-construct “Europe” (Pelizza, 2019; Schipper & Schot, 2011). <br> <br> <br> <br>We invite both conceptual and empirical contributions that address, but are <br>not limited to, the following themes: <br> <br> <br>Practices of (de)securitization of European infrastructures (e.g. of health, <br>borders, space and defense, surveillance); <br>Promises and perils of futures of in/security that are imagined and enacted in <br>the making of “Europe”; <br>Processes and practices of infrastructuring in the construction of European <br>statehood; <br>Politics of in/visibility of in/security infrastructures <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Deadline: July 15, 2020. <br> <br>Please send your abstracts (max 300 words) to <br> <br>nina.witjes@univie.ac.at and paul.trauttmansdorff@univie.ac.at <br> <br> <br> <br>This workshop is jointly funded by the faculty of social sciences of the <br>University of Vienna within the framework of its interdisciplinary program <br>“Knowledge, Materiality, and Public Spaces” and the Horizon 2020 project <br>InsSciDE (grant agreement no 770523), 2018-2021 <br> <br> <br> <br>Travelling and accommodation expenses can be provided to a limited number of <br>participants. Please contact the conveners of the workshop in case you need <br>funding. <br> <br> <br> <br>As organizers we are aware that in current COVID-19 circumstances, the <br>planning of events and travel arrangements is uncertain and difficult. <br>However, maintaining a positive spirit, we intend to hold the workshop in <br>November in Vienna, while continuously evaluating the situation and keeping <br>alternative scenarios in mind, such as postponement or a virtual workshop. <br> <br> <br> <br>References <br> <br>Aradau, C. (2010). Security that matters: Critical infrastructure and objects <br>of protection. Security Dialogue, 41(5), 491–514. <br>https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010610382687 <br> <br>Grommé, F., & Ruppert, E. (2019). Population Geometries of Europe: The <br>Topologies of Data Cubes and Grids. Science Technology and Human Values, <br>1–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919835302 <br> <br>Pelizza, A. (2019). Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration <br>and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities. Science <br>Technology and Human Values, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919827927 <br> <br>Schipper, F., & Schot, J. (2011). Infrastructural Europeanism, or the project <br>of building Europe on infrastructures: An introduction. History and <br>Technology, 27(3), 245–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2011.604166 <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>-- <br> <br>Dr. Nina Klimburg-Witjes <br> <br>University Assistant (post doc) <br> <br>University of Vienna / Dep. of Science and Technology Studies <br> <br> <br> <br>Universitätsstrasse 7, 1010 Vienna <br> <br>Austria <br> <br>T +43-1-4277-49625 <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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