Dear all
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
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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
--
Professor Clive Norris
Head of Department
Department of Sociological Studies
University of Sheffield
Elmfield, Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
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 2nd April - Thursday 3rd 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
Zymunt 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 Oxford Univ., UK
Minas Samatas Crete Univ., Greece
Chris Williams Open University, UK
Conference Accommodation
Please find below information about booking your accommodation for the
Invisibilities Conference in Sheffield. Please note booking accommodation is
the responsibility of the delegate, and we would advise that you do this as
soon as possible.
You can either:
1) Use the Sheffield Tourism booking form, which can be found at:
https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/YSTINVISIBILITIES08
2) Or you may prefer to book your hotel independently by contacting hotels
directly. A list of hotels can be found here:
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/tourist-information/staying-in-sheffield
3) There is also University accommodation available at a cost of £40.00 for
en-suite and £30.00 for shared facilities. Please note that the en-suite
facilities are limited and cannot be guaranteed and will be allocated on a
first come first served basis. If you wish to take up the University
accommodation option, it is imperative that you e-mail Lisa Burns at
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Conference Organisation
The list of speakers will be available on the conference web page from 4th
February
www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
The Conference Fee is £200 per person, which includes refreshments and lunch
and
an optional two years' membership of Surveillance Studies Network. The
membership fee will be used to promote the charitable activities of the
Surveillance Studies Network, support the continued publication 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 2nd at an additional
charge of £50.
HOW TO BOOK
If you would like a booking form please email Lisa Burns at
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YOU CAN ALSO DOWN LOAD THE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORMS AT: (FROM FEB 4TH)
www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
Returning them by email to:
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Or by post to:
Lisa Burns
Research Support Officer
Centre for Criminological Research
Sheffield University, School of Law
Bartolome House, University Of Sheffield
Sheffield S3 7ND
We look forward to seeing you at the conference
Professor Clive Norris
On behalf of the Organising Committee
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