Professor Michael Blain and Angeline Kearns Blain organized and chaired a session on “Biopoliics, Victimage Ritual, and the War on Terror” at the XXI World Congress of Sociology organized by International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada, July 15-21. In addition, Blain presented a paper on “Progressive Violence: Theorizing The War on Terror” to a session organized by ISA RC 18 Political Sociology.