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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
The – perceived, expressed and sometimes imposed or insinuated – need for more and more security has been increasingly shaping the political and societal systems. It seems to have pervaded almost every sphere of life. New security technologies are developed and implemented for surveillance, identification, access, tracking, targeting and much more. The “quantified self” is framed by discourses that moralize practices like smoking and unhealthy eating, both under the auspices of avoiding risk and hence securing individual health as well as reducing societal costs. The digitalized life strives – as primary or secondary object – to eliminate known insecurities and at the same time creates new ones. And knowledge finds itself more often than not in the realm of (epistemic) security, insecurity, uncertainty and risk, where the uncertainty of knowledge or “truth” is the secure common ground.
The conference opens up the whole realm of “value”-related questions on [in-]security. It will explore contradictory lines of thought and fields of practice and aims at an ethical analysis of the values in security as well as insecurity in divers contexts.
Keynote speakers are Prof. John T. Hamilton, Harvard University; Prof. Onora O’Neill, University of Cambridge and House of Lords; Prof. Charles Raab, University of Edinburgh; Prof. Rainer Treptow, University of Tuebingen.
Information on participating / attending:
Please register until 31. May 2015 via http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/61409
Date:
07/28/2015 - 07/30/2015
Registration deadline:
05/31/2015
Event venue:
Universität Tübingen
Alte Aula
Münzgasse 22-30
72070 Tübingen
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Philosophy / ethics
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
04/22/2015
Sender/author:
Antje Karbe
Department:
Hochschulkommunikation
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event50703
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