[Surveillance-Studies-l] Fwd: Re: InVisibilities - Surveillance Conference

[Nils Zurawski]

hier ein paar aktuelle infos zur surveillance 
konferenz in sheffield im april - mehr findet ihr 
unter surveillance-studies.net

beste Grüße

nilz

>Reply-To: Clive Norris <c.norris at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
>Sender: Research and teaching on surveillance <SURVEILLANCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>From: Clive Norris <c.norris at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
>Subject: Re: InVisibilities - Surveillance Conference - Corrected Flyer
>>
>>Attached is the general announcement for
>>
>>InVISIBILITIES: THE POLITICS, PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE OF SURVEILLANCE IN
>>EVERYDAY LIFE To be held at the University of Sheffield on
>>Wednesday 2nd April - Thursday 3rd April 2008
>>
>>Can you please circulate this far and wide to any colleagues who may be
>>interested in attending and particularly on any other lists that you are a
>>member of. 
>>Booking forms can be obtained from Lisa Burns 
>>at L.K.Burns at shef.ac.uk who will also deal with 
>>any enquiries.
>>
>>I have reproduced the text of the attached flier below
>>
>>Looking forward to seeing many of you in April
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Clive On behalf of the Organising Committee
>>
>
>InVisibilities: The politics, practice and 
>experience of surveillance in everyday life
>
>*A two-day international conference hosted by*
>
>*The Centre For Criminological Research, **University of Sheffield**, **UK***
>
>*in association with*
>
>*The Surveillance Studies Network*
>
>*/www.surveillance-studies.net/*
>
>* *
>
>*Wednesday 2^nd April - **Thursday 3^rd April 2008***
>
>* *
>
>*/ /*
>
>While many of the world's nations are becoming 
>surveillance societies, the nature of life with 
>surveillance in those societies is far from 
>homogeneous, and is not widely researched or 
>theorised. This conference focuses on the lived 
>realities of surveillance and is keen to 
>encourage empirical studies which document its 
>everyday experience.
>
>By its very nature surveillance makes 
>populations visible, and differentiates between 
>their members; surveillance itself features 
>varied techniques, intensities and foci. Whether 
>as workers, consumers, children, patients, 
>criminals, web surfers or travellers we are made 
>visible in different ways, through different 
>technologies and administrative regimes. 
>Visibility is not always total, unproductive or 
>oppressive - visibility is necessarily partial. 
>For some it is actively embraced: lives are 
>lived in visibility.
>
>Nevertheless, widespread ambivalence towards 
>surveillance has been noted in academic, policy 
>and media circles. As surveillance confers 
>benefits and incurs costs on individuals, 
>personal information economies of surveillance 
>emerge. In building personal strategies which 
>involve surveillance practices, invisibilities 
>are negotiated to mediate, limit and exploit 
>exposure to surveillance. How individuals, 
>groups, organizations and societies negotiate, 
>experience, resist, comply with, and enjoy 
>surveillance are critical empirical questions, 
>which appeal to surveillance scholars from a 
>wide range of social science disciplines.
>
>
>          Keynote Speakers
>
>* *
>
>*Zygmunt Bauman
>David Lyon
>John McGrath *
>
>* *
>
>*Key themes include:*
>
>    * Experiencing Surveillance and Visibility
>    * Participatory and Voluntary Surveillance
>    * Theorising (in)visibility
>    * Histories of Surveillance and Visibility
>    * Surveillance of the Other - Visibility and Difference
>    * Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media
>    * State Surveillance and Identification
>    * Surveillance and consumer visibility
>    * The transparent body
>    * Researching (in)visibility
>    * Spatial visibilities
>    * Surveillance futures
>
>The conference is also truly international with 
>provisional offers of over 70 papers from 
>fourteen countries including speakers from 
>Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, 
>Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, 
>Sweden, UK and the USA. Speakers include:
>
>*Krisel Backman **Gotenburg Univ.**, **Sweden***
>
>*Catrina Frois **Libson Univ.**, **Portugal***
>
>*Kevin Haggerty **Alberta** Univ., **Canada***
>
>*Hille Koskela **Helsinki Univ.**, **Finland***
>
>*Deirdre Mulligan **Berkeley Univ.** **USA***
>
>*Mike Nellis **Strathclyde Univ.**, **UK***
>
>*Minas Samatas **Crete** Univ., **Greece***
>
>***Catrina Frois, **Libson Univ.** ,**Portugal***
>**
>*Chris Williams Open Univ., **UK*
>
>     ication of the Journal of /Surveillance and 
>Society/ and give other benefits to members
>
>The fee will include refreshments and lunch, but 
>not overnight accommodation or evening meals. 
>There will be a conference dinner on April 2^nd 
>at an additional charge of £50.
>
>*How to Book*
>
>If you would like a booking form please email 
>Lisa Burns at L.K.Burns at shef.ac.uk* * 
><mailto:L.K.Burns at shef.ac.uk>
>
>You can also down load the conference registration forms at: (from Feb 4^th )
>
>www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr>
>
>Returning them by email to:
>
>L.K.Burns at shef.ac.uk* * 
><mailto:L.K.Burns at shef.ac.uk> as soon as 
>possible and no later than March 6^th 2008
>


-- 
Dr. Nils Zurawski
Universität Hamburg
Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung
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Germany
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