Research seminar on Traces of War in Everyday Life?

Research seminar on Traces of War in Everyday Life? Innovation, Militarization, Normalization is organized by Professor (mso) Anna Leander, CBS and Professor Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California

The seminar takes place the 24th of February from 12.00-17.00, and registration to is open until the 20th of February to abte.dbp@cbs.dk

See description below:

Are there traces of war in everyday life, even during times of notional “peace”? Military research plays a key part in the technological innovation and development that shape everyday life. Moreover, it is often suggested that for the past half-century, war has been omnipresent as a global phenomenon mediated through both the economy of production and preparation for world war. But does this imply that there are therefore traces of war in the practices of everyday life?

The goal of this research seminar is to tackle this question. This task is particularly urgent since the “hybridized” nature of many practices make such traces difficult to recognize let alone explain or understand. This hybridization follows three axes: public-private,military-civilian, andtechnological-socia.

For this research the organisers solicit three or four relatively short think-pieces (4-5 pages) that outline tentative ways of answering the question at stake: how and why are there traces of war in everyday life? These will be distributed a few days before the seminar.