Friday, May 19, 2017 -
1:00pm to 7:00pm
History Faculty, George Street
Colin Matthew Room


TORCH's Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network are hosting a seminar on the topic of sacrifice. This will involve a revisitation of the concept of Sacrifice in late modernity in its various configurations, philosophical and ideological.

The seminar will include the following:

Faisal Devji (Oxford) ‘Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of non-violence’
Martin Crowley (Cambridge) ‘Bruno Latour's Anti-sacrificial Politics’

In terms of international security dynamics, we live in a world of nuclear prominence and, simultaneously, a world of growing cyber persistence. This presentation will explore the distribution of power dynamics associated with these two distinct strategic environments and the different approaches to national security they necessitate. The talk will then examine the crucial question of how these two strategic environments might intersect, and how the radically shifting technological terrain of cyberspace, including the advent of more powerful machine learning, will impact this intersection.

This high-level conference will consider the options and implications of Brexit, from the perspectives of the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. Please see programme for more information.