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From: D F J Wood Sent: 11 October 2007 09:12 To: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society Subject: Revised Conference call: - (IN)VISIBILITIES: THE POLITICS, PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE OF SURVEILLANCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE *please note: closer date for expressions of interest! November 16th. (IN)VISIBILITIES: 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 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and John McGrath 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. Key themes to 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, visibility and the welfare state * Surveillance and consumer visibility * The transparent body * Electronic visibilities * (In)visibility and labour * Negotiating (in)visibility * Researching (in)visibility * Spatial visibilities * Surveillance futures FEES AND LOCAL INFORMATION This is a non-residential conference and participants will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation (we will provide advice for this in due course). The Conference will be held at the Richards Roberts Building at the University of Sheffield, UK. Conference web site will be up and running from November 20th 2007 providing full details of the emerging conference programme, transport and accommodation advice, payment details and a final booking form. The Conference Fee is £200 per person, which includes refreshments and lunch and an optional £25 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. There will be a formal conference dinner on the evening of April 2nd at an additional charge of £50. We are hoping to offer ten reduced fee places for post-graduate students wishing to give a paper or present a poster display of their research. If you wish to apply for this please register your interest as soon a possible and send an abstract/summary of your research/ by 16th November 2007. Allocation to these strictly limited places will be based on the quality of the abstract/ research description and on a first come first serve basis. For planning purposes it is imperative that we have an initial indication of numbers by November 16 2007 so please register your interest now. Please also note that because of administrative constraints we have had to bring our abstract submission deadline FORWARD to the 20th December 2007. REGISTER OF INTEREST. For those who are interested in giving a paper or attending the conference please register your interest by sending an email to [log in to unmask] as soon as possible and before November 16th 2007 with the following information: * Name * Country of residence * Institutional affiliation * Institutional address * Telephone number * Email address * Proposed title/subject of paper. We will require a 300 word abstract by December 20th * Where appropriate an indication that you wish to be considered for a postgraduate reduced fee place plus a 300 word abstract of your paper/ description of your research * If you are thinking of attending but do not want to give a paper please state this clearly. TIMETABLE October 6 Revised First Call issued November 16 Dead-line for initial register of interest, name, title, contact details etc by email to [log in to unmask] November 20 Second Call issued - with list of key speakers - Electronic booking form available - Conference web site up and running - formal registration and payment from now. December 20 Abstracts required March 1 Deadline for submission of final electronic papers March 1 Final Deadline for registration and payment for all conference attendees without late booking surcharge March 24 Papers published on Web available to all registered conference attendees April 1 Evening pre-conference reception April 2/3 Conference We look forward to hearing from you Please register your interest NOW. Professor Clive Norris Dr Kirstie Ball -- Professor Clive Norris Head of Department Department of Sociological Studies University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield S10 2TU Tel: 0114 222 6460 Fax: 0114 276 8125 Email:[log in to unmask] Secretary: Ms Janine Birch Tel: 0114 222 6422 Email: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html ************************************************************************************* ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************