Forwarded by Eric Herring
http://www.bisa.ac.uk/2008/provisional_prog.htm


Dear All,

Some very good news: I have just heard that the BISA Conference Committee has accepted all four submitted panels for the Critical Terrorism Studies working group! Since my last update a couple of months ago, our programme has changed slightly. See the latest copy below, along with provisional panel times (from the BISA website). If you have yet to join BISA, you must do so before registering for the conference. Details of how to join BISA/register for the conference can be found on www.bisa.ac.uk Please note the late booking fee of £50 after 19 Sept, and the final deadline of 14 Nov. I will be in touch in the autumn with my new contact details at Kingston University.

Thanks again for submitting some very interesting papers, which will ensure that the working group has an excellent presence at BISA. Hope you all have a great summer.

Sam.

THE DISCOURSE OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE (Mon 15 Dec, 4-5.30pm)
Convenor: Sam Raphael (King's)
Chair: Tim Montgomery (Sheffield)
Verena Erlenbusch (Sussex) The Divine Nature of 'Terrorst' Violence: A Benjaminian Account of the Challenge of Sovereign Power
Chris Hendershot (York Centre for International and Security Studies, Canada) When Animalised-Terrorists Attack!
Karen Jacques (Lancaster) Pathways to Female Terrorism
Valentina Bartolucci (Bradford) Analysing the Language of Terrorism in Morocco

WAYS FORWARD FOR CRITICAL TERRORISM STUDIES (Tue 16 Dec, 2-3.30pm)
Convenor: Sam Raphael (King's)
Chair: Richard Jackson (Aberystwyth)
Eric Herring (Bristol) Critical Terrorism Studies: An Activist Scholar Perspective
Sam Raphael (King's) Exploring US State (Sponsorship of) Terrorism: A Post-9/11 Research Agenda
Alexander Spencer (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich) A Constructivist Terrorism Research Project: Shifting the Focus from Terrorists to Terrorism Experts

RETHINKING THE 'NEW' TERRORISM (Tue 16 Dec, 4-5.30pm)
Convenor: Sam Raphael (King's)
Chair: George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton)
Manni Crone (Danish Institute for International Studies) Doing Terror! Radical Islam and the Performance of Terror
Emmanuel Clivaz (St Andrews) Lethality and Religious Fanaticism
Birthe Hansen (?) Causes of International Terrorism and the Unipolar World Order
Antony Field (Warwick) The New Terrorism: Revolution or Evolution?

TERRORISM AND CULTURE (Wed 17 Dec, 9-10.30am)
Convenor: Sam Raphael (King's)
Chair: Helen Dexter (Salford)
Elaine Martin (Alabama) Cultural Representations of State Terrorism: From Heinrich Boll to Third Cinema
Lee Jarvis (Oxford Brookes) Remembering Terror in a Digital Age
William Josiger (Georgetown) Fear Factor: The Impact of Terrorism on Public Opinion
Martin Harrow (Danish Institute for International Studies) The Relations Between Militant and Non-Militant Islamists: Why Islamists Closed Down Their Number One Show!
Jennifer Pedersen (Aberystwyth) Raging Against the (War) Machine: The Raging Grannies in Post-9/11 North America