Rebecca Hester, Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of “The somatic-security industrial complex: theorizing the political economy of informationalized biology,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol 20, issue 1, 2020, 98-124.

This piece is co-authored with Owain D. Williams, Lecturer in International Relations, School of Politics & International Studies, University of Leeds.

Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of their work, so it is best to read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent to you upon registration.

Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceGvrzwrHNSicEtRjCZE3DAdUR….

Organizers:

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology Studies and is part of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) Reading Group Series.

About the speaker:

Rebecca Hester is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society and an associate director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech. She received her PhD in Politics from the University of California Santa Cruz. She was subsequently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a faculty member in the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Hester's research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of migration, health, the body, and security. Her current research examines contemporary accounts of “biological danger” and the social, political, and scientific implications of preempting, preventing, and eradicating such danger.