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From: Wendy Plotkin <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:39:09 -0500
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Subject: CONFANN: The Vulnerable Citizen: Surveillance & Privacy in Everyday
Life
Posted by Linda Vavra <[log in to unmask]>
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Institute for the Humanities, The Medical Humanities Program, The
Chicago Seminar, and The Gender and Women's Studies Program at the
University of Illinois at Chicago present
The Vulnerable Citizen:
Surveillance and Privacy in Everyday Life
October 19-20, 2001
The University of Illinois at Chicago
The conference will focus on perceptions of vulnerability in everyday
life in the United States. Speakers will explore the following issues:
the paradoxical role of the state as regulator and guardian; voyeurism
and confessionalism; technologies of surveillance, including medical,
racial, consumer, and criminal profiling; monitoring in the home and
workplace; and the strategic use of space to regulate movement, time
and desire.
Plenary sessions:
Wendy Kaminer, author and social critic
Randall L. Kennedy, Harvard University Law School
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Speakers will include:
Douglas C. Baynton, University of Iowa
Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Frances E. Dolan, Miami University
Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers University
Dennis R. Judd, University of Illiniois at Chicago
Stephen Katz, Trent University
Evan C. McKenzie, University of Illiniois at Chicago
Sonya Michel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lynn M. Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University
David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago
This conference is free and open to the public.
Additional speakers, exact times, locations, and paper titles will be
announced. For further information, contact:
Linda Vavra, Assistant Director, Institute for the Humanities,
701 S. Morgan, MC 206, University of Illinois at Chicago, C
hicago, IL. 60607-7040;
312/996-6352; fax 312 996-2938; email [log in to unmask]
or visit the conference website:
<http://www.uic.edu/depts/huminst/Conferences.html>
Linda Vavra
Assistant Director
Institute for the Humanities
701 S. Morgan Avenue, MC 206
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL. 60607-7040
312/996-6354
fax 312/996-2938
email [log in to unmask]
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