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Ontologies of Conflict | Conference Programme and booking details

Monday, June 9th, 2014

Dear all, we are very happy to inform you that we finally have our interdisciplinary conference held over 16th-17th June in Grand Parade. Booking for the conference can be found here. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested.

 

Ontologies of Conflict

Conference Programme

Monday, June 16th

Time
Location
9:00-10:30
Grand Parade foyer
Welcome and registration
10:30-12:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Keynote lecture: Vlasta Jalušič, Peace institute, Ljubljana
Understanding violence (and power) in contemporary conflicts
12:00-13:30
Grand Parade Cafeteria
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Lars Cornelissen, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
‘Like a Dog’: The Human Condition in a Neoliberal World
Regimantas Juras, Vilnius University, Lithuania
The problem of suffering in the structure–agency debate: three conceptions of agency
Paddy Tobias, University of New England, Australia
A Cycle of Conflict: the loss of identity when global contradicts local
Matthew Crowley, University of Brighton
Amicable Young Men? or, The Absence of Change: The (Re)Construction of Masculine Identities in Monica Dickens’s The Happy Prisoner (1946) and J.B. Priestley’s Three Men in New Suits(1945)
15:00-15:30
Grand Parade Cafeteria
Coffee break
15:30-17:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Kevin Buton, University of Lyon III, France
Time and Tactics: A Forgotten French Argument
Mark Devenney, University of Brighton
The violence of ontological arguments
Liesbeth Schoonheim, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
The Impotence of the New: Claude Lefort on Political Change in an Age of ‘Invisible Ideology’
17:00
The Wooden Belly
Conference dinner

 

Tuesday, June 17th

Time
Location
10:00-10:30
Grand Parade foyer
Coffee
10:30-12:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
German Primera, University of Brighton
The signature of Life: From Butler’s social ontology to Agamben’s politicization of ontology
Tim Huzar, University of Brighton
An “Insurrection” of Ontology? Judith Butler’s Poetics of Politics
Heather McKnight, University of Brighton
Towards Violent Utopias?  Butler and Agamben in the ‘darkness of the lived moment’
12:00-13:30
Grand Parade Cafeteria
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Mike Diboll, University of Brighton
Primordialist Faultline or Political Society Struggle? Huntington, Chatterjee and Ontologies of Violence in Bahrain
Elizabeth Johnson, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa
Interface of Global War and Domestic Insurgencies: Taming Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
Adriana Roque Romero, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Normativities of Violence: Colombia on the Verge of Reconciliation
Jeremy Evans, University of Brighton
The epistemology of inshore fishing: socio-ecological resilience beyond marine conservation zones
15:00-15:30
Grand Parade Cafeteria
Coffee
15:30-17:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Keynote lecture
17:00-18:00
Boardroom, Grand Parade
Closing plenary
18:00
Town
Drinks