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(DEADLINE EXTENDED!) 2023 Call for Papers “Financialization and the Global Arms Industry”
Security in Context is issuing a call for papers on the theme of “Financialization and the Global Arms Industry.” Please submit 400-word abstracts/proposals or completed papers by March 30th, 2023 to: submissions@securityincontext.org Please use the email subject heading "Financialization & Global Arms Industry Paper Proposal." The results for accepted proposals will be announced by April 15, 2023.
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(DEADLINE EXTENDED!) 2023 Call for Papers “The Global South in an Era of Great Power Competition”
Security in Context, in collaboration with the Northwestern University Qatar Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South and the Center for Peace and Development at the University of Oklahoma, is issuing a call for papers on the theme of “The Global South in an Era of Great Power Competition.”
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Security in Context Media Roundup: September 23 - October 7, 2022
Security in Context Media Roundup: September 23 - October 7, 2022. Includes this week's most relevant security news from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Developing Asia, as well as stories on key security issues worldwide.
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Security in Context Media Roundup: September 9 - September 23, 2022
Security in Context Media Roundup: September 9 - September 23, 2022. Includes this week's most relevant security news from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Developing Asia, as well as stories on key security issues worldwide.
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Security in Context Media Roundup: September 2 - September 9, 2022
Security in Context Media Roundup: September 2 - September 9, 2022. Includes this week's most relevant security news from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Developing Asia, as well as stories on key security issues worldwide.
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What is Security in Context?
An introduction to the SiC initiative, an international research initiative on peace, conflict, and international affairs.
Pedagogy
Critical Texts on Afghanistan
This series features short annotated entries on key topics covering politics, history, gender, political economy and culture. The list is meant to be a resource for educators and instructors as well as the interested public.
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Climate Change in an Unequal World with James K. Boyce
A discussion with James K Boyce.
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Book Panel February 18th: Inter-imperiality by Laura Doyle
Please join us for a panel to discuss "Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance" with author Laura Doyle, Kate Bedford, & Scarlett Cornelissen & moderated by Mark Laffey.
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Mega Dams and Human Insecurity in East Africa: A Discussion with Edward Stevenson
Join us for a discussion with Edward Stevenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University
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Global Carceral States: Violence, Transgressions, and Methodologies of Imprisonment
This conference on May 21-22 2021 presents an opportunity for scholars to contribute to our understanding of prisons, torture, violence, securitization and related issues..
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Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
Book Discussion with Michael Truscello
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Construction Jihad, Iran's Foreign Development Agency: Eric Lob
Firat Demir spoke with Dr. Eric Lob, a member of the SiC multipolarity working group and associate professor of International Relations at Florida International University, about his research on Iran's Foreign Development Agency "Construction Jihad."
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Globalization of China's Development Finance: Bo Kong
Professor Bo Kong, a member of the SiC Multipolarity working group discusses his research on the globalization of China's Development Finance Model particularly in the Energy Sector.
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Infrastructural Brutalism: Book Panel with Michael Truscello
On March 24th, 2021, Security in Context's Endemic Infrastructures working group hosted its first public event, a discussion with Michael Truscello on his book Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure (The MIT Press, 2020).
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Self-Devouring Growth: Dr. Julie Livingston
Dr. Julie Livingston discussed her latest book "Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable As Told From Southern Africa" as part of the collaboration between the University of Oklahoma's Center for Peace and Development and Security in Context.
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Lecture with Dr. Julie Livingston
Join SiC and OU CPD for a lecture with Dr. Julie Livingston, author of "Self-Devouring Growth: A planetary Parable as Told From Southern Africa" (Duke University Press, 2019)..
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The Kolbers of Rojhelat (Iranian Kurdistan) with Dr. Ahmad Mohammadpour
Part II of a discussion with Dr. Ahmad Mohammadpour about his ongoing research in Iran on Kurdish issues, including pioneering research on the cross border traders knowns as the Kolbers.
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Women as War Criminals- Dr. Izabela Steflja
Dr. Izabela Steflja discusses her co-authored book, Women as War Criminals.
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Clements Hoffman on The Geopolitics of Decarbonization in the Middle East
Dr. Clemens Hoffman, a member of the SiC political economy of multipolarity working group, discusses his research project on the geopolitics of decarbonization in the Middle East.
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Inter-Imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance: Book Panel
Security in Context hosted a panel to discuss Laura Doyle's book Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance.
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Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe on Women's Empowerment in Uganda
Activist and educator Sister Rosemary Nyirube speaks of her work with women in Northern Uganda, the various insecurities they face, and her work to empower women socially and economically.
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Women, Human Rights and Insecurity in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones
Join the Oklahoma University Center for Peace and Development and Security in Context this Friday, February 5 (1-2 PM CST/ 2-3 PM US Eastern time) for a lecture with Dr. Izebela Steflja (Tulane University) on 'Women, Human Rights and Insecurity in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones. The event will be moderated by Dr. Zermarie Deacon, Associate Professor of Human Relations, University of Oklahoma.
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Military Spending and the Profit Rate under Capitalism: Adem Elveren
In this video, Professor Adem Elveren, a member of the Security in Context Financialization and Militarism working group, presents the main findings of his latest book The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective (Routledge 2019).
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Public Launch: Security in Context
Join us for our online public launch where we will discuss the Security in Context initiative and its various components, as well as introduce some of the people and networks involved. Click below for the full event video.
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The Turn to the Right Wing, Intervention, and Insecurity
A two-day conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 7th and 8th, 2020. Co-sponsored with CLACSO, ACSS, and the Latin East Initiative
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Daniel Mains "Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia"
Daniel Mains of the University of Oklahoma is interviewed by Firat Demir about his new book, Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia (2019 Duke University Press).
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Interview with Kamal Soleimani and Ahmad Mohammadpour
Firat Demir hosts Kamal Soleimani, El Colegio de Mexico, and Ahmad Mohammadpour, UMass Amherst
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Interview with Philippe Frowd
Philippe Frowd on borders and his book: Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa
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Dr. Giulia El Dardiry on the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies and SiC
Dr. Giulia El Dardiry discusses the work of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies collective, a working group within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences
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Dr. Shana Marshall explains Financialization and Militarization
Dr. Shana Marshall explains the Financialization and Militarization research track of Security in Context
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Dr. Lisa Hajjar Presents Legacies of the Global War on Terror Thematic Track
Dr. Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, provides an overview of the Legacies of the Global War on Terror thematic track.
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Professor Paul Amar presents Orfalea Center and SiC Collaboration
Professor Paul Amar, Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and Professor of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara on the Center's collaboration with SiC
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Professor Fikret Adaman on Boğaziçi University and SiC Collaboration
Professor Fikret Adaman of Boğaziçi University discusses the collaboration between the Human Development Research Center and SiC.
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Professor Nicole Grove Presents Endemic Infrastructures Research Track
Professor Nicole Grove, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i Manoa presents an overview of the "Endemic Infrastructures" thematic track.
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Professor Zaynab El Bernoussi Presents Dignity, Democracy, Development Research Track
Professor Zaynab El Bernoussi, assistant professor of international politics at Sciences Po Rabat, discusses collaboration with SiC around her research on Dignity, Democracy, Development
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Rabie Nasser on the Syrian Center for Policy Research and SiC Collaboration
Rabie Nasser, co-director of the Syrian Center for Policy Research discusses possible collaborations with SiC around questions of conflict, political polarization and transnational war economies
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Call for Submissions: Borders and the State in Light of Covid-19
In this round table, we invite critical scholars of borders to reflect on the question of borders and the state in light of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic response.
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Interview with Yasser Munif
Yasser Munif on his new book,"Syria's Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and Geopolitics of Death"
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