Images of Terror, Narratives of (In)security:
Literary, Artistic and Cultural Responses
Literary, Artistic and Cultural Responses
Confirmed Guest Speakers:
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES, Universidade de Coimbra/ Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick.
He is Director of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and Scientific Coordinator of the Permanent Observatory for Portuguese Justice. He is the coordinator of the research project ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French and German.
Prof. Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Liam Kennedy is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He has diverse research interests and teaching experiences, spanning the fields of American urban studies, visual culture, globalisation and transatlantic relations.
He is the author Race and Urban Space in American Culture (2000), Urban Space and Representation, City Sites and Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration. He is co-editor of Urban Space and Representation (1999) and City Sites: An Electronic Book (2000), and editor of Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration (2004).
He is currently researching a monograph on photography and international conflict, and preparing two edited books - on urban photography and on cultural diplomacy and US foreign policy.
Prof. David Murakami Wood (Queen’s University, Canada)
Murakami Wood is a recognised scholar in Surveillance Studies. He won an ESRC Research Fellowship for his project Cultures of Urban Surveillance, which looked at the globalization of surveillance in different global cities. He is Editor of the journal “Surveillance & Society.” He is a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society, the international journal of surveillance studies, and a founder-member of the Surveillance Studies Network. More recently he was one of the initiators of the European Science Foundation COST action, ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ (LiSS), of which he remains an associate member.
Prof. Kristiaan Versluys (Ghent University, Belgium)
Kristiaan Versluys is Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team. He obtained his Ph. D.-degree from Harvard University in 1979. He has published The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930) and many articles on urban literature, in particular the literature of New York. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and a regular guest professor at the summer session of Columbia University, where he teaches a course entitled “New York in Recent Fiction”. In 2004-2005 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), where he embarked on a study of the discursive responses to 9/11. He is the author of the monograph on literary approaches to 9/11, “Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel”.
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES, Universidade de Coimbra/ Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick.
He is Director of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and Scientific Coordinator of the Permanent Observatory for Portuguese Justice. He is the coordinator of the research project ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French and German.
Prof. Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Liam Kennedy is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He has diverse research interests and teaching experiences, spanning the fields of American urban studies, visual culture, globalisation and transatlantic relations.
He is the author Race and Urban Space in American Culture (2000), Urban Space and Representation, City Sites and Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration. He is co-editor of Urban Space and Representation (1999) and City Sites: An Electronic Book (2000), and editor of Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration (2004).
He is currently researching a monograph on photography and international conflict, and preparing two edited books - on urban photography and on cultural diplomacy and US foreign policy.
Prof. David Murakami Wood (Queen’s University, Canada)
Murakami Wood is a recognised scholar in Surveillance Studies. He won an ESRC Research Fellowship for his project Cultures of Urban Surveillance, which looked at the globalization of surveillance in different global cities. He is Editor of the journal “Surveillance & Society.” He is a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society, the international journal of surveillance studies, and a founder-member of the Surveillance Studies Network. More recently he was one of the initiators of the European Science Foundation COST action, ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ (LiSS), of which he remains an associate member.
Prof. Kristiaan Versluys (Ghent University, Belgium)
Kristiaan Versluys is Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team. He obtained his Ph. D.-degree from Harvard University in 1979. He has published The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930) and many articles on urban literature, in particular the literature of New York. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and a regular guest professor at the summer session of Columbia University, where he teaches a course entitled “New York in Recent Fiction”. In 2004-2005 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), where he embarked on a study of the discursive responses to 9/11. He is the author of the monograph on literary approaches to 9/11, “Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel”.