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ASPECT Conference
February 17, 2012
University Hall
8 pm
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SOVEREIGN VIOLENCE:
2009 lecture series
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R E T H I N K I N G E T H I C S , P O L I T I C S ,
H I S T O RY, A N D C U LT U R E
IN THE WAKE OF TERROR
A MINI-CONFERENCE
Virginia Tech
Graduate Life Center
MONDAY MARCH 12 TH GLC AUDITORIUM
PLENARY SESSION
7:00-9:00PM
On the Suicide Bomber:
Anatomy of a Political Fantasy
Dr. Richard Boothby
Loyola University Maryland, Department of Philosophy
“Not Seen, Not Heard”:
Framing Sovereign Violence on Islands
Dr. Alison Mountz
Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography and Environmental Studies
The Incomplete:
Liberal Subjectivity and National Sovereignty
Dr. Kennan Ferguson
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Political Science
TUESDAY MARCH 13TH GLC MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
SESSION 1(9:00AM-10:45AM)
GENEALOGIES OF SOVEREIGN VIOLENCE
SESSION 2 (11:00AM-12:45PM)
PRACTICES OF SOVEREIGN VIOLENCE
SESSION 3 (2:15PM-4:00PM)
DISCOURSES OF SOVEREIGN VIOLENCE
Sponsors:
Alliance for Social, Political,
Ethical, and Cultural Thought
(ASPECT)
ASPECT Students Association
(ASA)
Co-Sponsors:
Department of History,
Department of Philosophy,
Department of Political Science,
Department of Religion and Culture,
Program in Government and International Affairs
Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention

About Molly SESSION 3
DISCOURSES OF SOVEREIGN VIOLENCE
Chair: Edward Weisband
Discussant: Dr. Kennan Ferguson
(Political Science, VT)
(Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The Comfort Women Issue: Facing the Legacy of Yoshiko Yamada
2:15p
Sovereign Violence and the Discursive
(Florida International
Univ.)
Construction of ‘Postwar Japan’
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Economic Policy: Monetary Sovereignty or Sado-
Monetarism
Enclosing Insecurity: Biopolitics and
Mediterranean Migration as the State of
Exception
4:00p Two Counter-Memories: The Legacy of Michel
Foucault’s Work on Memory
4:00p
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4:15p
5:00p
-
6:30p
ASPECT Conference
Closing Remarks and Discussion
Dr. Amy Shuster (Political Science, VT)
Closing Reception
(Cranwell International Center)
Robert Kirsch
(ASPECT, VT)
Stefanie Georgakis
(PG&G, VT)
Jordan Hill
(ASPECT, VT)
ASPECT Conference
S O V E R E I G N V I O L E N C E :
R E T H I N K I N G E T H I C S , P O L I T I C S ,
Sponsors:
H I S T O RY, A N D C U LT U R E
IN THE WAKE OF TERROR
A MINI-CONFERENCE
March 12 - 13, 2012
Virginia Tech
Graduate Life Center
Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and
Cultural Thought (ASPECT)
ASPECT Students Association (ASA)
Co-Sponsors:
Department of History,
Department of Philosophy,
Department of Political Science,
Department of Religion and Culture,
Program in Government and International Affairs
Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention

Catering Services
7:00p
Opening Remarks and Introductions
-
Dr. François Debrix Dr. Amy Shuster
7:15p
ASPECT Director, VT
&
Political Science,VT
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author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s Return to Freud
(1991), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan (2001), and Sex on the
Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us about Sex and Gender (2005).
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Local Catering
ASPECT Conference
MONDAY MARCH 12 TH
GLC
Auditorium
PLENARY SESSION
Kennan Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His work focuses in political theory, broadly
conceived. He is the author of The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and
Political Theory (1999); William James: Politics in the Pluriverse (2007), and All in
the Family: On Community and Incommensurability (forthcoming).
ASPECT Conference
TUESDAY MARCH 13TH
GLC MULTIPURPOSE ROOM
8:00 Breakfast and Coffee
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Opening Remarks
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Dr. François Debrix
Tyler Suggs
9:00
ASPECT Director, VT
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ASPECT,VT
SESSION 1
GENEALOGIES OF SOVEREIGN Suspendisse
VIOLENCE
Chair: Marian Mollin
(History, VT)
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Richard Boothby
(Loyola
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University Maryland)
$6.99 / lb
9:00
The Problem of Referentiality and • Gravida Absolute leo Nulla Ryan Artrip $7.99 / lb
Power: In Search of a Political System • Lacus of Sodales (ASPECT, $9.99 VT) / lb
Reference
O Violence, Violence! Wherefore Art Thou Shien-Hauh Leu
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Violence?
(ASPECT, VT)
Imperial Laboratories of Violence: A Genealogy Alexander Barder
of the Nazi Lager
Vestibulum (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
10-45 The Banality of Evil Continues
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Hassell
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SESSION • Gravida 2 leo Nulla $7.99 / lb
PRACTICES OF SOVEREIGN • Lacus Sodales
VIOLENCE $9.99 / lb
Chair: Clair Apodaca
Discussant: Dr Alison Mountz
(Political Science, VT)
(Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography
and Environmental Studies)
11:00
Pollution Prevention, Dumping Prohibitions, and Sarah Surak
Control of State Exports in the Posuere Case of the / Tempus (PG&G, VT)
Basel Convention: The Use of Sovereign Ligula sitet Violence nullatet pretium:
to Prevent Violation?
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Your Brain on Racism: What Cognitive • Gravida Science leo Nulla Marc Thomas $7.99 / lb
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Can Teach us about Racism and • How Lacus It Sodales
Impacts (ASPECT, $9.99 VT) / lb
Higher Education
12:45
Where the Bastards Are’: Spatial Tinkering and
the Violence of Privileged Imaginaries in Belfast
Nonviolent Struggle: The New Frame for
Brazilian Citizenship for the Disabled
12:45 - 2:15p Lunch
Scott Tate
(ASPECT, VT)
Lyusyena Kirakosyan
(ASPECT, VT)
Local Catering