We are delighted to be joined for this years annual conference by BISA Chair Professor Ruth Blakeley, who will be presenting the keynote about her research into the impacts of state violence, and by Faisal Hussain, Birmingham-based artist who will be exhibiting his work into the racist implications of security.
As well as the numerous panels, there will also be discussion provided for PhDs/early-career researchers on publishing, jobs, and grants, as well as breakout-room style conversations about CTS and Activism, and a more hands-on CTS and Creative Methods session. Lunch will be provided both days, and dinner also kindly subsidised by BISA.
10.00 Welcome by CTSWG (BISA) Convenors
10.15 Panel 1 – Contestations and Counter-terrorism in Security Politics
Chair: Raquel da Silva
11.45 Tea break
12..00 PhD/ECR Café (with Q&A): Writing, publishing, & jobs
Chair: Tom Pettinger
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Panel 2 – Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Continuities, Performativity, and Violence
Chair: Tom Pettinger
3.30 Tea break
4.00 Book launch
Ahmed Abozaid – Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror
4.30 Keynote Presentation
Professor Ruth Blakeley
6.30 Dinner
Ginger Orange, 50 Kenpas Highway, Coventry CV3 6BP
Weds 7 September
09.45 Panel 3 – Negotiating Counter-terrorism Policy and Practitioner Experience
Chair: Tom Pettinger
11.15 Tea break
11.30 Panel 4 – Reimagining Otherness and Narratives of Danger in Counter-terrorism
Chair: Raquel da Silva
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Artwork Exhibition
Faisal Hussain, TrueFormProjects
2.45 Breakout Rooms
3.30 Panel 5 – Improving ‘Security’? Counter-terrorism and Its Implementation
Chair: Raquel da Silva
Tarun Agarwal – Militarization, Emotions and Radicalization: A Study of Kashmir
Shaswati Das – Why Violence Prevails – Understanding Jihadist Recruitment in Kashmir through the Social Movement Framework
Nicola Mathieson – The Other Returnees: The missing trajectories of foreign fighters returning home and their consequences
Aitor Bonsoms – The Politics of “Foreign Fighters”: Terrorists, Citizens, and Refugees in the wake of the fall of ISIS Caliphate
Sinduia Umandi W. Jayaratne – Nexus Between Ideology and Leadership in Salafi Jihadi Militant Organizations and its Impact to Counter-terrorism
5.00 Final remarks by CTSWG (BISA) Convenors
Registration to close on 11 August 11.59pm.
You may also want to read the original call for papers.