BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:41@londoncaat.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200701T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200701T183000 DTSTAMP:20200628T074424Z URL:https://londoncaat.org.uk/events/police-war-empire/ SUMMARY:Police\, War & Empire DESCRIPTION:An online 2 part series discussing the relationship between war \, the arms trade and policing.\n\nThe aim of this series is to address th e absence of policing in mainstream anti-arms trade organising. This webin ar series aims to ask\, what is the link between war and policing? How sho uld both be understood? And should they be separated? What is the role of war\, the arms trade\, and policing in the making and upholding of empire? \n\nAs well as bringing forward the very obvious ways in which policing is part of the global arms trade\, with the police literally protecting the sales and transfer of arms at arms fairs like DSEI\, the attendance of pol ice forces at arms fairs\, and the shared exchange of policing tactics\, t his series aims to look at the foundations of war and policing addressing for example\, and how both operate together - with suggestions that they a re one and the same (e.g. war as global policing).\n\nWith contributions o n war/policing in/of the UK\, Kashmir\, Palestine\, and through borders\, this series aims to contribute to more holistic understandings of war and policing whilst a re-thinking of resistance in the re-framing of the arms trade.\n\nYou can register for a free ticket here.\n\nFormat:\n\nThe serie s will be in two parts. The first online webinar session will be led by co ntributions from speakers and reflections on broad questions around polici ng\, war and empire. Part 2 will focus more on responding to specific ques tions and thoughts (collated from part 1) and building a more interactive session around how we move forward. Each session will be 2.5 hours long an d will include a 15 minute break.\n\nSessions will be held on Zoom\, and l inks to join the sessions wil be emailed upon registration.\n\nSpeakers:\n \nAdam Elliott-Cooper is a research associate at the University of Greenwi ch. He received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment\, University of Oxford\, in 2016. He has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL\, as a teaching fellow in the Depar tment of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associat e in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He sits on the board of The Monitoring Group\, an anti-racist organisation challenging st ate racisms and racial violence.\n\nArun Kundnani is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media\, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and th e Domestic War on Terror (Verso\, 2014)\, Spooked: How Not To Prevent Viol ent Extremism (Institute of Race Relations\, 2009) and The End of Toleranc e: Racism in 21st Century Britain (Pluto\, 2007). A former editor of the j ournal Race &\; Class\, he has been an Open Society fellow\, a fellow a t the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Hague and a schola r-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, New York Public Library.\n\nAther Zia is a poet and a political anthropologis t. Ather teaches Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Nort hern Colorado Greeley and has recently authored of Resisting Disappearance : Military Occupation and Women's activism in Kashmir.She is the founder a nd editor of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collec tive. Her research interests focus on military occupation\, human rights\, armed conflict\, resistance\, settler colonialism\, gender\, Muslim women \, and Islam.\n\nLana Ramadan was born in Dheisheh refugee camp\, near Bet hlehem in the West Bank. After being actively involved in community activi ties\, Lana studied Human Rights and International Law in the joint Al Qud s University and Bard College program. After graduating\, Lana went direct ly into a master’s program at the London School of Economics. She gradua ted with a Master in Human Rights in 2016. Lana worked with Badil Refugee Resource Centre. She worked as a researcher\, specifically focusing on for ced displacement and the creation of coercive environments by Israeli poli cies. In December 2017\, she began at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association as the International Advocacy Officer.\n\nNadine El-Ena ny is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director o f the Centre for Research on Race and Law (@CentreRaceLaw). Nadine teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law\, European Unio n law\, protest and criminal justice. She has published widely in the fiel d of EU asylum and immigration law. Nadine has written for the Guardian\, the LRB Blog\, Pluto Blog\, Verso Blog\, Open Democracy\, Media Diversifie d\, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking. Her recent book (B)orde ring Britain: Law\, Race and Empire was published by Manchester University Press in March 2020. 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