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Dear all,
I'm writing to invite interested colleagues to a one-day colloquium to be
held at Birmingham University on March 15th (a Friday towards the end of
this semester) entitled 'The intensification of surveillance: Implications
for Crime, Terrorism and Warfare'. This began as a day which examined
surveillance post September 11th, but has grown to include a number of
themes: joined up surveillance, algorithmic surveillance, electronic
tagging, information warfare and cybercrime. It's also part of our
centenary celebrations in the business school, and is run jointly with the
department of cultural studies and sociology.
Clearly, there is a huge criminological dimension to surveillance theory
and practice, and I am very keen to have some surveillance interested
criminologists attend. There'll be lots of opportunities to meet and
interact with key surveillance theorists from other disciplines.
Below is the rubric for the colloquium, but details will also be available
on the web at www.business.bham.ac.uk/surveillance from next week. There
is also a registration form there, which you can download, fill in and
email back to Marie Walsh ([log in to unmask]) at Department of Cultural
Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham. There are only 30 places
available, but registration is FREE, you'll just have to find the money to
get here.
Look forward to hearing from you
Kirstie
Dr Kirstie S Ball
Lecturer in Organizational Management
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
Dir 0121 414 2546
Web: www.bham.ac.uk/business
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There have been many signs of increased surveillance over recent
decades, from CCTV in our streets to electronic tagging of criminals.
However, in the wake of recent world events, there has come an acute
awareness of - or perhaps a need for - a much further intensification of
surveillance. Terrorism alerts, concern for money-laundering, and the
waging of 'information warfare' enormously promote surveillance and concern
for its consequences and efficacy.
This one day colloquium will examine implications of the impact of
internationally organized crimes, cybercrime, its policing, and information
warfare, which have all been recently highlighted as areas of concern for
policymakers, national governments, international bodies and citizens. In
this colloquium, we examine not only the legislative movements and
technological changes through which Western governments respond to these
issues, but also the civil liberties and privacy related concerns following
sociocultural change in attitudes towards crime, criminals, warfare,
terrorism and terrorists.
The colloquium welcomes academics and researchers from across the range of
social science disciplines, as well as local and national policymakers,
legal practitioners, law enforcement agencies, and NGOs.
Speakers are:
Charles Raab (Edinburgh): 'Joined up surveillance?'
David Wall (Leeds):'Cybercrimes versus Cyberfears: Dealing with
insecurities in cyberspace'
Clive Norris (Hull) Going digital: Cameras, computers and algorithmic
surveillance'
Frank Webster (Birmignham)‘Information Warfare, Surveillance and Human
Rights’
Mike Nellis (Birmingham)I know where you live: the electronic surveillance
of offenders'
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