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…

A reversal of Roe vs. Wade by the United States Supreme Court has implications for individual and population health, health equity, and norms of democracy and law in the United States and globally. Protection of reproductive rights is a key indicator of health outcomes and health equity for women and children around the world. Restricted access to reproductive health services disproportionately affects low-income populations and people of color.

This webinar brings together a cross-disciplinary panel of experts to investigate the implications of this decision going forward.

Moderator: Charley Willison, Cornell University Department of Public & Ecosystem Health

Panelists:

Khiara M. Bridges - University of California Berkeley School of Law
Tiffany L. Green - University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Elizabeth J. King - University of Michigan School of Public Health
Rebecca J. Kreitzer - University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Public Policy