Perspectives on European Security Culture

10Nov2010 13:00 - 15:30

Conference

This event is organized and sponsored by the NWO-Vidi project ‘European Security Culture' at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and the MA programme ‘EU in a Global Order' at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam.

Seminar and discussion at the University of Amsterdam

Potgieterszaal, University Library, Singel 425, Amsterdam.

  • 14.00-14.15 Opening and welcome
    Marieke de Goede
  • 14.15-16.30 Lectures and discussion
    chaired by Otto Holman

    William Walters (Carleton University, Canada)
    ‘European States in Motion: Migrations and Political Intervention'

    Irma van der Ploeg (Hogeschool Zuyd)
    ‘Migration and the Machine-readable Body'

    Huub van Baar (University of Amsterdam)
    ‘Security and the Irregularization of Romani Mobility in Europe'

    Discussant: Chris Bickerton, University of Amsterdam

    Followed by drinks

This event is organized and sponsored by the NWO-Vidi project ‘European Security Culture' at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and the MA programme ‘EU in a Global Order' at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam.

About the speakers

William Walters is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University and author of 'Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration. He has written extensively on borders, mobility, citizenship and power.

Irma van der Ploeg is at Zuyd University and director of the DigIdeas project, an ERC-funded research project on social and ethical aspects of digital identities.

Huub van Baar is completing his PhD at ASCA, University of Amsterdam, on Roma in Europe. He has published widely on this subject.

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Free. Everybody is welcome. Registration is recommended, with Thamar Zijlstra: T.Zijlstra@uva.nl.

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