From North America to Latin America, the Caribbean to Europe, and beyond, new politics of the left, center, and right have emerged, each experimenting with how they talk about class divides and economic identities.

Right-wing politicians, like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, have been described as “populists” and often claim to challenge some kind of cultural “elite.” Left-wing politicians, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have claimed to represent truer working-class constituencies, with a promise to challenge economic elites. All over the world, each definition of popular or elite class politics has been unsettled and conflicted, often refracted through race, gender, and other intersections.

In this panel discussion, leading scholars of class and racial formations will interpret the intersecting history of class, race, and the politics of economic identity to discuss how different paradigms have been manipulated or mobilized in the contexts of specific countries. The conversation will aim to clarify key patterns that may echo across multiple countries as rightist, centrist, or leftist political movements attempt to forge coalitions and realize their ambitions.

Panelists:

David Roediger (Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies, The University of Kansas)

Louis Römer (Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College)

Mary Hicks (Assistant Professor of History, The University of Chicago)

Tejasvi Nagaraja (Assistant Professor of History, ILR, Cornell University)

Wendy Muse (Doctoral Candidate of History, New York University)

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Class, Race, Global: An event series sponsored by Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Class, Race, Global brings together scholars, journalists, and activists for dynamic conversations on diverse topics in history and politics. We ask: How do class, race, and global inequalities and struggles intersect with one another? What links can be revealed between “domestic” issues and “foreign” regions?

The series is part of the Einaudi Center’s inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority.

Stemming from the rediscovery of Carl Schmitt, the recent work on political theology emphasizes the irreducibility of the theological in modern politics. Dating from the 1980s, a decade bookended by the Iranian Revolution and the Rushdie Affair, this work has attended to the persistence of religion and the crisis of secularism. As important, however, was the collapse of modernization theory with the disintegration of the Third World and its anti-colonial project.

Central to though rarely acknowledged by this research, Islam has come to represent the chief example of theology’s irreducibility. Yet Schmitt’s statement, about all political concepts being the secularization of theological ones, can also be read as a description of the latter’s evanescence in their very expansion. Rather than representing its persistence, contemporary Islam is defined by the loss of the theological as it is reproduced in capitalist ways.

Islam serves as both a repository and displacement of the theological for other religions. Yet its own spectacles of outrage and violence, over alleged insults to Muhammad, rehearse the absence of the theological. Emerging out of colonial capitalism, such controversies over representations of Muhammad have also secularized blasphemy and promoted the rise of offences against identity in Euro-American societies.

This two-day workshop aims to center analysis of the people, organizations and work that ultimately make and break cybersecurity. However, it aims to do so in a way that bridges the gap between two very different kinds of methods and theoretical perspectives: science and technology studies, which tends to adopt a grounded and “bottom-up” approach to analysis; and international relations, which tends to take more of a “top-down” approach that centers nation-states and the international system.

SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, JUNE 16 - 9:45 am - 5:00 pm (ET)

9:45—10:15 am Welcome and Lightning Round
Workshop participants will be asked to introduce themselves in 1-2 minutes.

Panel 1 -10:15 – 12:15 PM THREATS
Chair: Sarah Kreps, Cornell University
Discussant: Frank Smith, Naval War College

Whose Expertise? The Static, Contingent, and Recursive Strategies of Malware Analysis and Detection
Andrew Dwyer, Durham University

Dark champions: The Emergence of Commercial Cyber Threat Intelligence in Great Power Competitor States
JD Work, Columbia University

The Making of Cyber(in)security: Sociotechnical Practices and Anticipation of Future Threats
Lilly Muller, Kings College London

Protest, Police, and the Sociotechnical Construction of Threat
Jason Ludwig and Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University

Panel 2 -1:15 – 2:45 PM HACKERS
Chair: Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University
Discussant: Jesse Sowell, University College London

The Hack-and-Leak
Gabriella Coleman, Harvard University

Computer Security and Its Discontents: The Anti-Security Movement, 2000 – 2002
Matt Goerzen, Harvard University

Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace.
Ryan Ellis, Northeastern University; Yuan Stevens

Panel 3 - 3:30-5:00 PM MATERIALITY
Chair: Lilly Muller, Cornell University
Discussant: Aaron Gluck-Thaler, Harvard University

The Casual Counterfeiter in the Age of Desktop Publishing
Gili Vidan, Cornell University

Black sites: cybersecurity expertise and digital absence
James Shires, Leiden University

The Blurry Lines Between Operations and Information
Clare Stevens, Bristol University

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 9:30 am-1:30 pm (ET)
Chair: Lilly Muller, Cornell University
Discussant: Jon Lindsay, Georgia Tech

Panel 1 - 9:30 am-11:30 am ORGANIZATIONS
The Technopolitics of Cybersecurity Incident Response
Rebecca Slayton and Frank Smith

Collective Resistance in the Digital Domain: An Exploratory Case Study of the Cyber Partisans
Max Smeets, ETH Zurich

Global Innovation, Knowledge Management, and Cybersecurity: UK Universities as a Case Study
Madeline Carr, University College London

Operational Epistemic Authorities in the Internet's Infrastructure
Jesse Sowell, University College London

12:30 - 1:30 pm FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Open discussion of research gaps and next steps

SPONSORED BY
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
U.S. National Science Foundation Award # 1553069.

Register here : https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-yvqz4oE9Ld5SDfXOhPZkxFpC…