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Secrecy Today: Two FPA Research Excellence Chair Events
March 9, 2023 — March 10, 2023
| Cost: | Free |
Image: Parlour (1947) by Julio Pomar; photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simões.
How does secrecy work in liberal democracies today? What does it mean for questions of justice, accountability and contestation? Please join us for these two events dedicated to exploring old and new forms of political secrecy. These events are organized by Professor William Walters, holder of the FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-22).
Public Lecture Thursday, March 9
At the Limit of Politics: Third Party Rule, Five Eyes and Oversight of the Secret Services
Didier Bigo (Sciences-Po, Paris, and Kings College London)
5.00 – 6.30 pm, reception to follow
2220-2224 Richcraft Hall
All are welcome
Didier Bigo is Professeur de Sociology : Sociologie Politique Internationale (IPS) Sciences-Po Paris-CERI and Research Professor in the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. He is Director of the Centre d’ Études sur les Conflits, la Liberté, la Sécurité (CECLS). He is a co-editor of the journal Cultures et Conflits– L’Harmattan-CECLS (See review) as well as Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS). His recent publications include the co-edited books The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies (2020) and Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights (Routledge 2019). Further information at https://didierbigo.com
This event is funded by the FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-2022), the Department of Political Science, and the Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy.
Symposium Friday, March 10
Secrecy, Invisibility, Ignorance
1.30 – 6.00 pm
2017 Dunton Tower
All are welcome
Participants:
Didier Bigo (Sciences Po, Paris/Kings College London), Stéphane Lefebvre (Independent Scholar), Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London / Radboud University), Pedro Rony Ribeiros (São Paolo), Elspeth Van Veeren (Bristol) (virtual), William Walters (Carleton), Christiane Wilke (Carleton), Helyeh Doutaghi (Carleton), Hijaab Yahya (Carleton).
Recent scholarship in the social sciences is increasingly moving beyond questions of knowing in order to examine different ways by which we consciously and strategically avoid or limit knowing. Treating unknowing and nonknowing not as a mere absences of knowledge but in terms of strategic acts, silences, invisibilities and absences, this work complicates what we understand by secrecy, ignorance and absence within politics and law. This one-day symposium will advance this research by promoting conversation amongst researchers working on topics of ignorance, invisibility, truth-telling and secrecy.
This event is funded by the FPA Research Excellence Chair (2019-2022), the Department of Political Science, and the Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy.