Secrecy and (In)Security: New Perspectives
5 November, 9am – 6pm
This workshop explores the ways in which the study of secrecy can add to our understanding of the causes and legacies of violent conflict. Contributors are invited to reflect on the ways secrecy may function as an essential part of the structures of power/knowledge in state and security-making, including through resistant and dissenting practices. This includes consideration of the interconnections between secrecy and practices of concealing, deceiving, lying, obfuscating, ignoring and de-sensing, and includes exploring the relationship between secrecy and the unseen and unheard, the hidden, the absent, the opaque and the fake through gendered, sexed, ableist and racialised ways of knowing. Confirmed speakers include: Edmund Clark, Oliver Kearns, Brian Rappert, Lisa Stampnitzky, Clare Stevens, Owen Thomas, Elspeth Van Veeren, William Walters.
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