Conference Program
Security and Morality
Critical Anthropological Perspectives
University of Oslo
March 28 – 29, 2019
Room: HF-12
Faculty of Humanities
Niels Treschows Hus, 12th floor
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, 0313 Oslo
Please register for the conference here: https://skjema.uio.no/112912
March 28, 2019
09:30 Registration & Coffee
10:00 Welcome by organizers
Session 1
10:15 -10:45
Moral and Ethical Challenges in Ethnographic Observation in Prison Settings
Catarina Frois
10:45 -11:15
Staging Sovereignty: Punitivity, Xenophobia, and the Frail Society
Victor L. Shammas
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Session 2
11:30 - 12:00
Security State, Honor, and Anti-Establishment Resentment
Tereza Kuldova
12:00 -12:30
Honor as the Moral Culture of Russia’s Security Establishment
Jardar Østbø
12:30 -13:00
‘Securing the Island’: Paradoxes of Fear and Moral Regeneration in Vanuatu
Tom Bratrud
13:00 -14:30 Lunch Break
Session 3
14:30 -15:00
A State of Suspicion: Countering ‘radicalization’ into ‘violent extremism’ in Norway
Sindre Bangstad
15:00 -15:30
‘How to Prevent Radicalization: Narratives and Logics in the Policy of Preventing Islamist Radicalization of Adolescents in Germany
Leonie Thal
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Keynote Lecture
Constructing the ‘Crimmigrant Other’: Towards the Moral Economy of Migration Control
Katja Franko
17:00 -18:00
Refreshments & Socializing
March 29, 2019
9:30 Coffee & snacks
Session 1
10:00 - 10:30
Humanitarianism, Security and the Resilience Agenda: The Ethical Quandaries of Aid in Jordan and Lebanon
Malay Firoz
10:30 - 11:00
Contesting the Moral Frames of Aid Work: Humanitarian Ideology on Trial
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Session 2
11:15 -11:45
Knowledge Makes You Safe: Risk Management Workshops and Production of (in)Security Kamila Grześkowiak
11:45 -12:15
Self-protective Practices of Crime Victims and the Discourse on Security
Ulf Borelius & Stig Grundvall
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch break & EASA Anthropology of Security Network Meeting
Session 3
13:30 - 14:00
The Morality of Studying Security: Divergent Perspectives and the Dilemmas of the Anthropologist-expert
Tessa G. Diphoorn & Erella Grassiani
14:00 - 14:30
‘We Defend Healthy Moral Values’: Theorizing the Nexus Between Security and Morality
Ana Ivasiuc
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
Session 4
15:00 - 15:30
Claims on Community: Moral Authority and Racialized Security Logics in U.S. Community Policing
Jessica Katzenstein
15:30 - 16:00
Internal Affairs: Family Expectations and Entanglements for Mexican Police Officers
Adina Radosh Sverdlin
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:00
Book Launch of Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision ed. by Tessa Diphoorn and Erella Grassiani
17:00 - 18:00
Refreshments & Discussion about possible publication venues
The conference is jointly funded by EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), University of Oslo, and LMU Munich.