> 'Without Let or Hindrance': Inclusion and its Subversion from the
> Medieval to the Modern
>
> Lancaster University, 7 - 9 July 2006.
>
> How have distinctions between inclusion and exclusion, between insider
> and outsider, been articulated and subverted during the past
> millennium? This interdisciplinary conference will examine regimes of
> differentiation and the subversion of social, cultural and
> geo-political boundaries. The conference embraces a broad
> chronological scope with the aim of exploring historical continuities
> and disjunctures in the violence, hopes and anxieties associated with
> the definition and transgression of grouped identities.
>
> Original research papers are invited that will allow these questions
> to be considered. Papers that address the following themes are
> particularly, though not exclusively, invited:
> * The material insignia and mediation of recognition in text,
> image and artefact.
> * Technologies of physical differentiation, from physiognomic
> description, through photograph to biometric identification.
> * Cultural and associational definitions of identity and their
> subversion.
> * The bureaucratic mediation of rights of mobility, both across
> national borders and within the space claimed by the state.
> * The legislative qualification or compromise in practice of
> ostensibly equalising signifiers of identity, for example passports or
> identity cards, which create new distinctions on the basis of race,
> gender or religion.
> * The regulation of pilgrimage.
> * The mediation of provisions and economic supply in systems of
> identification, for example ration cards and currency.
> * Imperial histories of pass laws, passports and racial
> discrimination.
> * Signifiers that secure the boundaries of cultural and social
> networks.
> * Exceptional consideration and mobility - systems of coded
> documentation that evolve to account for the evacuee, refugee and
> asylum.
> Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by to Dr. Deborah Sutton,
> Department of History, Lancaster University , Lancaster , LA1 4YG , UK
> , [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ,
> by 14 February, 2006.
>
>
> Conference call for papers:
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/history/news/hindrance.htm
>
> Poster and plenaries:
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/history/pdf/hindrance_poster.pdf
>
> Dr. Deborah Sutton,
> Department of History,
> Lancaster University,
> LA1 4YG.
> [log in to unmask]
> 00 44 (0)1524 592506
>
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