Conference Update: Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives – Registration and Program

by Thomas Hoppenheit on March 2, 2019

With the program mapped out you can now register for the conference via this form.

To see the program you can download it here as a pdf.

Conference Program

Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives

University of Oslo, March 28 – 29, 2019

Room: HF-12

Faculty of Humanities 

Niels Treschows Hus, 12th floor

Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, 0313 Oslo

March 28, 2019 

09:30 Registration & Coffee 

10:00 Welcome by organizers 

Session 1

10:15 -10:45

Moral and Ethical Challenges in Ethnographic Observation in Prison Settings

Catarina Frois

10:45 -11:15

Staging Sovereignty: Punitivity, Xenophobia, and the Frail Society

Victor L. Shammas

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Session 2 

11:30 – 12:00

Security State, Honor, and Anti-Establishment Resentment 

Tereza Kuldova

12:00 -12:30

Honor as the Moral Culture of Russia’s Security Establishment

Jardar Østbø

12:30 -13:00

‘Securing the Island’: Paradoxes of Fear and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu

Tom Bratrud

13:00 -14:30 Lunch Break

Session 3 

14:30 -15:00

A State of Suspicion: Countering ‘radicalization’ into ‘violent extremism’ in Norway

Sindre Bangstad

15:00 -15:30

‘How to Prevent Radicalization: Narratives and Logics in the Policy of Preventing Islamist Radicalization of Adolescents in Germany

Leonie Thal

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Lecture

Constructing the ‘Crimmigrant Other’: Towards the Moral Economy of Migration Control

Katja Franko

17:00 – 18:00 Refreshments & Socializing

March 29, 2019 

9:30 Coffee & snacks

Session 1 

10:00 – 10:30 

Humanitarianism, Security and the Resilience Agenda: The Ethical Quandaries of Aid in Jordan and Lebanon

Malay Firoz

10:30 – 11:00

Contesting the Moral Frames of Aid Work: Humanitarian Ideology on Trial

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 2

11:15 -11:45

Knowledge Makes You Safe: Risk Management Workshops and Production of (in)Security

Kamila Grześkowiak

11:45 -12:15

Self-protective Practices of Crime Victims and the Discourse on Security

Ulf Borelius & Stig Grundvall

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break & EASA Anthropology of Security Network Meeting

Session 3

13:30 – 14:00 

The Morality of Studying Security: Divergent Perspectives and the Dilemmas of the Anthropologist-expert

Tessa G. Diphoorn & Erella Grassiani

14:00 – 14:30 

‘We Defend Healthy Moral Values’: Theorizing the Nexus Between Security and Morality

Ana Ivasiuc

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

Session 4

15:00 – 15:30

Claims on Community: Moral Authority and Racialized Security Logics in U.S. Community Policing

Jessica Katzenstein

15:30 – 16:00 

Internal Affairs: Family Expectations and Entanglements for Mexican Police Officers

Adina Radosh Sverdlin

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00 

Book Launch of Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision ed. by Tessa Diphoorn and Erella Grassiani 

17:00 – 18:00 Refreshments & Discussion about possible publication venues 

The conference is jointly funded by EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), University of Oslo, and LMU Munich. 

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