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<br>Please see below the Call for Abstracts for a workshop on “Making Europe
<br>through infrastructures of (in)security” at Vienna University.
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<br>Deadline for submission: July 15, 2020
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<br>All the best,
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<br>Nina Klimburg-Witjes & Paul Trauttmansdorff (on behalf of the organizing
<br>team)
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<br>Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security
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<br>Interdisciplinary Workshop
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<br>12-13 November 2020
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<br>University of Vienna
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<br>Keynote Speakers:
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<br>Prof. Claudia Aradau (King´s College London)
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<br>Prof. Annalisa Pelizza (University of Bologna)
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<br>Prof. Johan Schot (University of Utrecht)
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<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 & oiip), Philipp Knopp (Dep. of Sociology)
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<br>Call for Abstracts
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<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).
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<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.
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<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).
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<br>We invite both conceptual and empirical contributions that address, but are
<br>not limited to, the following themes:
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<br>·         Practices of (de)securitization of European infrastructures (e.g.
<br>of health, borders, space and defense, surveillance);
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<br>·         Promises and perils of futures of in/security that are imagined and
<br>enacted in the making of “Europe”;
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<br>·         Processes and practices of infrastructuring in the construction of
<br>European statehood;
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<br>·         Politics of in/visibility of in/security infrastructures
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<br>Deadline: July 15, 2020.
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<br>Please send your abstracts (max 300 words) to
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<br>nina.witjes@univie.ac.at and paul.trauttmansdorff@univie.ac.at
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<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
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<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.
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<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.
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<br>References
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<br>Aradau, C. (2010). Security that matters: Critical infrastructure and objects
<br>of protection. Security Dialogue, 41(5), 491–514.
<br>https://doi.org/10.1177/096701061038268
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<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
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<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
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<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
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