The University of Sydney and Q Station
20-22 February 2014
From a Youtube video of an oil spill, to an Instagram of a human rights violation, to a Twitter realtime feed of a terrorist bombing, to a Wikileak of classified documents, multiple media interventions are transfiguring global politics. Events phase-shift in a single news cycle from states to sub-states, local to global, public to private, organized to chaotic, virtual to real – and back again. Complex, volatile, and emergent peace and security issues require new and timely thinking as well as responses.
Q applies the latest innovations in the natural, social and human sciences to a reconfiguration of global power, developing peace and security issues and the role of networked global media in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Q will examine rising powers, new actors, financial crises, terrorist attacks, cyberconflicts, uberveillance, pandemics, natural and unnatural disasters as well as white swans. With Sydney universities leading the way in quantum computing and communication, Q will also consider the political, strategic, diplomatic, financial and ethical implications of the moment when quantum shifts from the microphysical and metaphorical to the macrophysical and actual.
Schedule
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Michael Hintze Lecture
Speaker: Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Friday, 21 February 2014
Panel 1 – The Q Effect: Micro-, Macro- and Meta-physical
Moderator: James Der Derian, CISS
Participants:
David Reilly, Quantum Nanoscience Lab, USYD
Jairus Victor Grove, University of Hawaii
Parag Khanna, Hybrid Reality Institute
Katina Michael, University of Wollongong
Panel 2 – Geosecurity: Risky States, States at Risk, and the Indo-Pacific
Moderator: Bates Gill, USSC/USYD
Speaker: Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, Chief of Navy, RAN
Participants:
Ryan Griffiths, CISS
Justin Hastings, CISS
John Lee, CISS
Sarah Phillips, CISS
James Reilly, CISS
Thomas Wilkins, CISS
Jingdong Yuan, CISS
Film Screening of The Unknown Known (Errol Morris)
Saturday, 22 February
Panel 3 – Biosecurity: Microbes, Food, and Genes
Moderator: Adam Kamradt-Scott, CISS
Participants:
Alison Bashford, USYD/Cambridge
Monika Barthwal-Datta, UNSW
Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex
Kathleen Vogel, Cornell University
Panel 4 – Infosecurity: Cyberworlds, Surveillance, and Global Media
Moderator: Simon Tormey, USYD
Participants:
Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland
Charlotte Epstein, CISS
Carolin Kaltofen, CISS/Aberystwyth
Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen
Panel 5 – Global Security: Crisis, Stasis, or Opportunity?
Moderator: Roy MacLeod, CISS
Participants:
Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute/RMIT
Megan MacKenzie, CISS
Sarah Percy, UWA
David Schlosberg, CISS
Panel 6 – The Final Q Table
Moderator: James Der Derian, CISS
Participants:
Thomas Biersteker, The Graduate Institute Geneva
Lene Hansen, CISS/University of Copenhagen
John Keane, USYD
Colin Wight, CISS
Film Screening of The End of Time (Peter Mettler)