13.12.2016

Open Lecture. Extitutional Security: Surveillance and Democracy

Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary, University of London), Thursday, December 15th, 2016· 10 h c.t. · Lecture Room 24, Kupferbau

Jef Huysmans is <link http: www.politics.qmul.ac.uk staff huysmansjef.html external-link-new-window external link in new>Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously he lectured at the University of Kent and the Open University, where he also served as Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG).

He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal <link http: ips.oxfordjournals.org external-link-new-window external link in new>International Political Sociology. His research focuses onthe politics of insecurity, the securitization of migration, and critical methods in security studies and International Relations. Recently, he has been working on security and democracy in times of surveillance, and together with Claudia Aradau (King’s College London) on the social and political life of methods.

Jef Huysmans has published extensively in the field of Critical Security Studies. Among his works are the monographs Security Unbound. Enacting Democratic Limits (Routledge, 2014),Citizenship and Security. The constitution of Political Being (co-ed. with Xavier Guillaume) (Routledge, 2013), and The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU(Routledge, 2006).

This lecture, which is part of the "Discourses of Security" course but open to everyone, will be based on Jef's recent article "Democratic curiosity in times of surveillance" from the inaugural issue of the European Journal of International Security 1 (1), 73-93.