UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
16th May 2008
11.00 am – 4.00 pm
Room S0.52, Social Studies Building
Border Effects
An International Interdisciplinary Symposium
11.00
:
Introductory Remarks
11.15 – 12.30 :
"Producing Illegality: Interdictive Border Controls and the
Securitisation of Asylum"
Vicki Squire
RCUK Research Fellow at The Open University's Centre for
Citizenship, Identities and Governance
12.30 – 1.15 :
Intermission for Lunch (please note that lunch will not be provided)
1.15 – 2.30
:
"The Production of Culprits: The Politics of Immigration in
the United States in the Aftermath of Antiterrorism"
Nicholas De Genova
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies,
Columbia University (New York), AND
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations, University of Warwick
2.30 – 2.40
:
Break
2.40 – 4.00
:
"Border as Method, or the Multiplication of Labour"
Sandro Mezzadra
Associate Professor of the History of Political Thought in the
Department of Politics, Institutions, History at the University
of Bologna, AND
Eminent Research Fellow (2006-2008) in the Centre for
Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney
(Australia)