The Biopolitics of Resilience Workshop -Keele June 18-19 2009‏

ESRC-Biopolitics of Security Research Network Seminar Series on‘Contemporary Biopolitical Security’Second Workshop: THE BIOPOLITICS OF RESILIENCE Keele University, 18-19 June 2009Keynote Address: Prof Pat O’Malley, University of Sydney ‘Giving fear a respectable name’: Military resilience, liberalism andscientific governance Programme: Thursday 18 June 13.00 – Registration and coffee 13.30 – Introduction: -Luis Lobo-Guerrero and Peter Adey (University of Keele) ‘The Biopolitics of Resilience’ 14.00 –16:00 Panel 1: Ecologies Melinda Cooper (University of Sydney) and Jeremy Walker (University ofTechnology Sydney) ‘Genealogies of Resilience: from Systems Ecology to the Political Economy ofCrisis Adaptation’ Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin (University of Salford) ‘Urban Ecological Security’ A new urban paradigm? Doerthe Rosenau (King’s College London) ‘‘Leave it Alone!’ - Genetic Engineering and the (Counter-)Discourse ofResilience’ 16.00 – tea and coffee 16.30- 18.00 Keynote address: Prof. Pat O’Malley (University of Sydney) ‘Giving fear a respectable name’: Military resilience, liberalism andscientific governance 19.00 – Drinks reception: Claus Moser Research Centre, lobby 19.30 – Workshop Dinner: Keele Hall Friday 19 June 9.00-11:00 Panel 2: Scales Will Medd (Lancaster University) ‘Flood, drought and the neoliberal resilience’ Jon Coaffe and Marian Hawkesworth (Manchester University), and DavidMurakami Wood (Newcastle University) ‘We are all risk managers now! The everyday impact of urban resilienceagainst terrorism’ Nadine Voelkner (Sussex University/Keele University) ‘‘It’s about prevention’: human trafficking risk and resilience in Vietnam’ 11.00-11.15 coffee 11.30-13.30 Panel 3: Science and Systems Judith Verweijen (University of Utrecht / Netherlands Defence Academy) ‘Resilient communities: a new target of stabilization operations’ Christopher Zebrowski (Keele University) ‘The Resilience Apparatus: An interdisciplinary examination of resiliencestrategies’ Peter Adey (Keele University), Steve Graham (Durham University), BenAnderson (Durham University) ‘Preparing for the end of the world as we know it’ 13.30-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Roundtable and conclusion For more information in relation to the workshop rationale and abstracts ofpresentations, please visit:http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/research/BiopoliticsResearchUnit/index.html Please register your attendance with Rosie Shepherd(r.e.shepherd@ilpj.keele.ac.uk) -- Dr Luis Lobo-GuerreroLecturer in International RelationsSchool of Politics, International Relations and PhilosophyChancellor's BuildingKeele UniversityKeele, ST5 5BGUnited Kingdom Deputy-Postgraduate Research DirectorResearch Institute for Law, Politics and JusticeClaus Moser BuildingKeele University BPS-RU@ Keele Biopolitics of Security Research Unit @ Keelehttp://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/research/BiopoliticsResearchUnit/index.html