Religion, Gender, & the Politics of State Security

9-9.15am      Introduction

9.15-11am Roundtable: What is the Security State? What is the place of religion in the Security State

11.15-1pm Panel: Imperial legacies, transnational religious networks, and global security

2-3pm Keynote: Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability ~ Eyal Weizman

3:15-5pm Panel: Policing, militarization, and ‘terror’: religious lives that matter

 

9-10.45am Panel: Visualizing (In)securities: cultural economies, faith communities, and expressive forms

11-12.45pm Panel: Gendering slow violence in religious communities: time, intimacies, and affect

1.30-2.30pm Informal discussion: ethics and research in insecure spaces

2.30-4pm Roundtable: critique, policy, & political engagement: towards an ongoing dialogue

 

Events are free, space is limited. All events will take place at HGS (Hall of Graduate Studies), Rm 211, 320 York Street

 

With support from: the Henry Luce Foundation; the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; American Studies; Anthropology; Ethnicity, Race, & Migration; Religious Studies; WGSS Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Whitney Humanities Center; African American Studies; the Cetner for the Study of Race, Indigineity, and Transnational Migration

 

Contact and RSVP: statesurvgender@gmail.com

 

Special thanks to our participants:

Samar Al-Bulushi Maryam Al-Khawaja Asli Bali Catherine Besteman Rosie Bsheer Gavriel Cutipa Zorn Anila Daulatzai Jaskiran Dhillon	Neloufer de Mel Mayanthi Fernando Sahana Ghosh Inderpal Grewal Zareena Grewal Maja Horn Sylvester Johnson Cindi Katz	Ramzi Kassem Deepa Kumar Kathryn Lofton Catherine Lutz Mehammed Mack Najwa Mayer Melani McAlister Deepti Misri	Corinna Mullin Michael Nijhawan Eda Pepi Kevin O’Neill Junaid Rana Sasha Sabherwal Malcolm Shanks Ather Zia