Dear all,
In case of interest, please find attached, and also see details below of a surveillance track at the international association for computing and philosophy conference in July 2011.
Best wishes
Kirstie
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Subject: [LiSS-COST] cfp Techno-Security: from Everyday Surveillance to Digital Warfare
Dear colleagues,
find attached the call for our track
'Technosecurity: from Everyday Surveillance to Digital Warfare'
at the interdisciplinary 'International Conference on Computing and
Philosophy'.
see http://www.ia-cap.org/IACAP_2011_CFP.pdf
We would be happy to meet you in Aarhus.
And please feel free to distribute the CfP.
Best wishes,
Jutta Weber & Doris Allhutter
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International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
First International Conference of IACAP: celebrating 25 years of
Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences
Conference Theme: "The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?"
Aarhus University -- July 4-6, 2011
Important dates
Feb 15, 2011: Abstract submission deadline
March 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance
April 15, 2011: Early registration deadline
NB: up to six bursaries of $500.00 each will be awarded to the authors
of the best PhD student or post-doc papers, in support of travel and
related costs for attending IACAP11.
*Track IV. Techno-Security: from Everyday Surveillance to Digital Warfare*
Chair: Jutta Weber (Technische Universität Braunschweig: [log in to unmask])
Chair: Doris Allhutter (Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung,
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: [log in to unmask])
The spread of convergent security and surveillance architectures is a
global phenomenon with its practices deeply embedded in everyday life.
Tight networks of interconnected databases with biometrical, DNA or
communication data, CCTV, robots, and other technologies are used to
monitor inter/national borders, regulate the access to welfare
benefits or money machines, target "terrorists?, perform "crowd
control? or select employees. Biological identification, (risk)
profiling and anticipatory tracking systems are rapidly "flourishing?
and are becoming crucial tools -- not only in military and law
enforcement but business, health care, tourism, urban planning,
transport, and many other fields. Thereby, security and surveillance
technologies are functioning as mechanisms of standardization, social
sorting and in- and exclusion along axes such as gender, dis/ability,
class, "race?, and religion. Along with the ubiquitous practices of
surveillance and securitization, research in military technologies
(robotic and digital warfare) and the development of dual use
applications for "crowd control? (non-lethal weapons, ubiquitous
computing & sensory networks, etc.) have been exploding since the
mid1990s, while human rights and international law are at least
partially undermined.
We invite contributions dealing with one of the following issues:
- Everyday practices of monitoring, tracking & risk profiling and the
emergence of culture(s) of fear, security "needs? and risk
governance
- Surveillance technologies and human rights with regard to
interdependent aspects of gender, dis/ability, class, "race?, and
religion
- Mechanisms of standardization, categorization, in-/exclusion through
technologies of In/Security
- Reconfiguration of bodies and identities through surveillance technologies
- The entanglement of surveillance, security and military technologies
(dual use; proliferation of military technologies in civil life, etc.)
- Techno-security and (re-)militarization; aspects of
(re-)militarization and its interplay with the (re-)masculinisation of
society and everyday life
*SUBMISSIONS -- due February 15, 2011*
Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract
(total word count approximately 1000 words) to the chair of the track
most closely affiliated with the proposed paper topic(s). The file
should also contain a 350 word abstract that will be used for the
conference web site/booklet.
NB: if you are a PhD- or post-doc student who would like for your
paper to be considered in the competition for the travel bursaries, be
sure to indicate this in your submission.
--
Dr. Jutta Weber, visiting professor
Culture, Technology and Gender Studies
Braunschweiger Zentrum für Gender Studies
http://www.juttaweber.eu
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