This year's meeting of the Social Science History Association will be held in October in sunny Miami. Meeting organizer Mabel Berezin has asked me to organize a panel in the area, and I am seeking your support. The (extended) deadline is February 15. More details in the attached file. Feel free to forward this email.
I am proposing a panel on "Surveillance and Security: Historical Perspectives in a Post-9/11 World." Given that time is so short, I have kept the panel theme broad. Presentations may include any historical discussion (on any time period in any context, national or otherwise) about state and non-state structures and mechanisms related to the control of suspect categories, in matters of criminal justice, policing, punishment, legal processing, immigration, poverty, and so on. The panel can function as a sort of historical contextualization to our present era, though no direct links and/or comparisons need to be made (unless you really want to).
Please email me if you wish to present a paper for the proposed panel. A title and a few lines of explanation will do. First come first served (though I will organize two panels should we get enough folks).
Should you already be on the program, let me know if you wish to be chair and/or discussant to this panel.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Mathieu
Mathieu Deflem, Associate Professor
University of South Carolina, Department of Sociology
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