25 years after the 9/11 attacks inaugurated a new era of homeland security, what have we learned from experience and hindsight? How might foresightful thinking about the next quarter century nourish good judgement and wise policy today?
In a special session of Oxford’s Emerging Threats Group on 30 November, we’ll consider the future of a wide range of homeland security issues, including evolving terrorist threats and what this means for counter-terrorism, cyber-attacks, emergency management and public health preparedness, political rhetoric, cultures and technologies of surveillance, and inter-agency cooperation.
We’ll be joined for the in-person session by Assistant Professor Kellie Marin of Texas State University, a scholar of rhetoric and communication studies whose research centres on the role of civic participation within the surveillance state. Dialling in from across the timezones, Kellie will offer a short introductory plenary to provoke thought among participants as we prepare to explore today’s uncertainties and tomorrow’s world.
