A new Urban Terrorism in Europe-project publication has just been released. Written by Katharina Karcher and Evelien Geerts, “Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany” analyzes the racist terrorist murders committed by the right-wing extremist Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund in Germany, and that against the backdrop of the hyperexceptionalization of 9/11 as a terrorist event. … Continue reading “New publication: “Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany””
Author: Evelien Geerts
New team publication: “European Urban (Counter)terrorism’s Spacetimematterings”
The first Urban Terrorism in Europe team project piece has recently been published in Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies (a Routledge volume edited by Alice Martini & Raquel da Silva). The piece in question combines posthumanist political philosophy, Baradian agential realism, critical terrorism/security studies, and critical theory to retheorize (counter)terrorism in situationscaping time, while … Continue reading “New team publication: “European Urban (Counter)terrorism’s Spacetimematterings””
Call for papers: “The Somatechnics of Violence: Affective, (Im)material and Digital Transformations.”
As a follow up to the UrbTerr “(Im)materialities of Violence” conference that took place in November 2021, a special issue call for papers has recently been announced. You can read the call for papers below or download a PDF copy here. Call for papers: “The Somatechnics of Violence: Affective, (Im)material and Digital Transformations.” Special issue … Continue reading “Call for papers: “The Somatechnics of Violence: Affective, (Im)material and Digital Transformations.””
The More-Than-Human Power of Memorials & Memes – roundtable video
UrbTerr-project team member Dr Evelien Geerts was recently invited to the “Posthumanism: Cinema, Philosophy, Media: A Roundtable Series”, organized by the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in partnership with Brock University’s Posthumanism Research Institute (Canada). During the roundtable series, she presented her digital cartography of critical new materialisms as an … Continue reading “The More-Than-Human Power of Memorials & Memes – roundtable video”
Announcement: New series of digital research events (25-27 November 2021)
(Im)materialities of Violence (25-27 November 2021) A series of digital research events (Im)materialities of Violence (25-27 November 2021, University of Birmingham, UK) is an interdisciplinary series of digital research events dedicated to addressing contemporary violence in its haunting (im)material manifestations, and that specifically through the entangled foci … Continue reading “Announcement: New series of digital research events (25-27 November 2021)”
New publication on political violence, 9/11’s aftermath & disposable bodies
Kif Kif recently posted a longread (in Dutch) written by the Urban Terrorism-project’s Research Fellow , Evelien Geerts. The piece, titled “Political violence since 9/11: Hypermediatization & the creation of disposable bodies,” touches upon political violence, 9/11’s aftermath & disposable bodies against the backdrop of contemporary pandemic crisis. The full essay can be read here.
Memory Studies Association 2021 – 5th Annual Conference – an UrbTerr recap
The Memory Studies Association’s 5th Annual Conference was held digitally in Warsaw, Poland, this year, and that during the 5th and 9th of July 2021. Titled “Convergences”, this year’s pandemic edition explored various subsets of thought and innovative explorations within the field of memory studies, and that with an extra focus on the academic and … Continue reading “Memory Studies Association 2021 – 5th Annual Conference – an UrbTerr recap”
New project publication: A philosophical longread on Belgium’s far-right pandemic politics and the Conings case
A new UrbTerr project publication has just been published. This philosophical longread, written in Dutch, re-spotlights the now notorious Conings case and Belgian pandemic politics, but does so by zooming in on the Flemish far-right, processes of terrorist and extremist (non)-labeling, and some of the conspiracy theories that were circulating right after the announcement of Conings’ … Continue reading “New project publication: A philosophical longread on Belgium’s far-right pandemic politics and the Conings case”
New project publication on pandemic politics & Belgium’s far-right extremism
A new project publication on pandemic politics and Belgium’s far-right extremism in the context of the Jürgen Conings case has just been published by The Conversation. The article addresses the Conings case – a Belgian soldier, currently wanted for threatening Belgium’s top virologist Marc Van Ranst and the illegal possession of weapons in a terrorist … Continue reading “New project publication on pandemic politics & Belgium’s far-right extremism”
Expert seminar with Prof. Em. Nina Lykke – recap
On the afternoon of May the 25th, 2021, the Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence (UrbTerr) project team at The University of Birmingham had the wonderful opportunity to virtually meet and engage in posthumanist critical theoretical conversations with Professor Emerita Nina Lykke (Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA) – Gender Studies at … Continue reading “Expert seminar with Prof. Em. Nina Lykke – recap”