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Authority & Political Technologies 2016: Biopolitical Matters
What is biopolitics today? What are its discontents? Is there life after biopolitics?

University of Warwick, June 13-14
This event is free but online registration is essential. Deadline for registration June 6th

Key Notes
Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary: Geopower: biopolitics and matter after life
Celia Lury, Warwick: Better than you: a topological imaginary
Didier Fassin, Princeton IAS: The Rise - and Fall? - of Carceral Society
Organizers Claire Blencowe, Amy Hinterberger & Illan Wall

Papers

• Aécio Amaral: Recombination oriented biopower: On technoscientific objects of potential life
• Angela Last: The anti-totalitarian and anti-colonial experiments of cosmic materialism
• David Reubi: A Genealogy of Epidemiological Reason: Biopolitics, Surveillance and Global Health
• Oliver Davis: Prison and the senses
• Julia Bennett: Whose place is this anyway? A tale of a hill, a heath and some big weeds
• Julian Brigstocke: Exhausted Futures
• Kathryn Medien: Foucault in Tunisia: Biopolitical Critique as Anti-Imperial Praxis
• Kevin S Jobe: Agents of Disease: Neoliberal Agency, Biosecurity and the Legalization of Homeless Encampments
• Laura Hille: Biohacking as a Technology of Cybernetic Biopolitics
• Matthew Cooper: Governmentality and the bio-political regulation in the UK's benefit system since 2010 and in the 1930s.
• Michael S. Darke: National commemoration without nation: The affective production of spirituality without spirit
• Naomi Millner: Community Forestry a Film
• Nick Vaughan-Williams: Rereading Europe's boder and migration crisis: Deconstructive biopolitics and the affirmative potential of the autoimmune
• Rosemary Segurado & Marcelo Burgos Pimentel dos Santos: Occupy public spaces and the making of the common: Students political action in São Paulo public schools
• Stephen James Connelly: 'I must have a body, it's a moral necessity, a requirement'
• Thomas Clément Mercier: Resisting the Present: Biopolitics in the Face of the Event

Special Panel: Racialised (in)securities: race and migration in ‘post-racial’ global politics
Chaired by Hidefumi Nishiyama

• Gurminder K Bhambra: ‘These people can’t stop talking about race’: Migration Studies, Migration, and Race
• Hannah Jones: Dissonant Belongings: queering home, race and nation
• Maurice Stierl: Of Slave Traders, Trojan Horses of Ebola, and Humanitarian Saviours: EUrope’s Racialised Border Violence in the Mediterranean Sea

Authority & Political Technologies, IAS, Social Theory Centre, Sociology, Law – University of Warwick