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With the support of the Ford Foundation and in collaboration with the Brown
Journal of World Affairs, the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project
presents "The Dis/Simulations of War and Peace: Predicting, Prophesying, and
Preempting the Future after 9.11." The Dis/Sim Symposium explores how
simulations (war games, training exercises, scenario planning, and
modeling), dissimulations (propaganda, disinformation, infowar, deceit, and
lies), and prophecy (dreams, myths, and other cultural forms of revelatory
story-telling) predict, anticipate, and work to preempt the future. Placing
a premium on dialogue, InfoTechWarPeace gathers a diverse range of
participants from governmental and non-governmental organizations, media and
military, as well as information technology and entertainment industries. |
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Organizer: James Der Derian, Watson Institute |
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James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research
professor of international relations and professor of political science at
the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. He is the principal investigator of InfoTechWarPeace. Der
Derian's most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the
Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (2001). His articles have
appeared in the New York Times, Washington Quarterly, Nation, and Wired.
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Organizer: Annick T.R. Wibben, Watson Institute |
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Annick T. R. Wibben is a Watson Institute visiting
fellow and a co-investigator with InfoTechWarPeace. She received her Ph.D.
from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth and is currently preparing her
doctoral work on "Security Narratives: A Feminist Examination" for
publication. She has written on feminist theory and IR more generally,
including Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and Feminist Scholars
Revis(it)ed (1998). |
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