Events: detail
BIOSECURITY IN A POST 9/11 WORLD
- Hosted by:
- BIOS Research Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society
- Speaker:
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Dr Filippa Lentzos, LSE BIOS Research Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society
- Starts:
- June 12, 2008 at 06:00 pm
- Ends:
- June 12, 2008 at 08:00 pm
- Location:
- London School of Economics, Connaught House, Room H216 (2nd Floor), Aldwych, London, WC2B 4EJ United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
This talk is about the politics of biosecurity. It will consider how the security environment changed following the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US, the “Amerithrax” emergency and the thousands of hoax anthrax letters that ensued in the States, Britain and elsewhere, and how examining contemporary strategies for managing biorisks and the policies and policy networks developing around biosecurity can help us begin to explore whether we are seeing the emergence of a new form of governmentality focused on insecurity, risk and precaution.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
All welcome, no ticket required.
Seats allocated on a first-come, first served basis.
This seminar will be followed by a drinks reception in the BIOS Centre, V1100 (11th floor, Tower 2).
