Joint Meeting on 'Teaching and ResearchingTerrorism'
Sponsored by the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Group and the Teaching About Terrorism Special Interest Group of C-SAP. Supported by the Consortium for Research on Terrorology and Political Violence.
15th - 16th September 2010
School of Social Sciences, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester
The goal of the meeting is to encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue between academics dealing with the issue of terrorism.
A selection of the best papers will be published as part of a special issue or section in the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge).
Subsidised accommodation is available for all participants.
There are limited funds for subsidising PhD students (and equivalent) to attend. This money will be allocated after the conference. Interested participants should contact Piers Robinson: piers.robinson@manchester.ac.uk as soon as possible.
Conference themes
- The emerging and ongoing difficulties of teaching about 'terrorism' and political violence in the current climate
- Definitions, practices, historical trajectories and questions of how to counter (Western) state terror
- The challenges and opportunities of researching terrorism