The 5th International Conference on E-Government will be held in Boston on 19-20 October 2009, and papers, panels and posters are invited on a wide range of relevant topics including identity cards, databases and electronic payments. The deadline for 300-500-word abstracts is 26 March 2009; for full details and detailed submission guidelines see the conference website. Picture: Wikimedia Commons
Archive for February, 2009
CFP: 5th International Conference on E-Government
Published February 28, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: ID Cards, Policy, Registration, Security, technology
CFP: Political Identities, Legal Identifications and Anthropological Practice
Published February 28, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Anthropology, Legal Frameworks
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting will take place in Philadelphia on 2-6 December 2009, and a panel has been proposed on the theme of ‘Political Identities, Legal Identifications and Anthropological Practice’. While figuring issues of identity and identification in their broadest senses, there seems to be some scope for documentary approaches, especially in terms of the legal stabilisation and reification of various identity categories and their recognition by different institutions. The deadline for 250-word abstracts is 15 March 2009; for full details of the session and how to apply, see H-Net.
Summer School: New Approaches to Political History
Published February 24, 2009 Summer Schools Leave a CommentTags: Britain, CCTV, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Passports, Security, Surveillance
A summer school on ‘New Approaches to Political History: Writing British and German Contemporary History’ will be held at the German Historical Institute, London, on 7-12 September 2009. Within a general focus on new definitions of the political and methodology, one of the four thematic strands concentrates on Politics in a Globalised World: Security and Transnationalisation, and will explore issues such as CCTV, passport controls and other international identity documents. The school is open to PhD students and post-docs working on British, German and British-German history, and the deadline for applications is 1 March 2009; for further details and how to apply see H-Net or the GHI website.
CFP: Identity and Identification in Antiquity
Published February 20, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Antiquity, Mediterranean
Pushing back chronological boundaries even further than IdentiNet, an international conference on ‘Identity and Identification in Antiquity’ will be held at Florida International University on 7-9 April 2009. Papers are requested that deal with the identity and identification of individuals, groups or communities within the confines of Mediterranean antiquity, from the archaic Greek period to late antiquity (including the early barbarian successor states). The deadline for proposals is 7 March 2009; for suggested themes and submission instructions see H-Net or the conference website.
Conference: European e-Identity Management
Published February 17, 2009 Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Europe, ID Cards, Identity Theft, Policy, Security, technology
The 22nd Annual Conference of EEMA (The European Association for e-Identity and Security) will take place in London on 25-26 June 2009 on the regular theme of ‘European e-Identity Management’. The two day event will comprise ‘keynotes, panel discussions, roundtable sessions and focused workshops on the key challenges and strategies for effectively managing government, employee, citizen and private identities’, and will feature displays from leading identity management and security vendors. For full details see the conference website, while for an archive of past events and other related activities see the EEMA website. Picture: stock.xchng
Conference: Medieval Skin
Published February 16, 2009 Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Medieval, Tattoos
A two day interdiciplinary conference on ‘Medieval Skin’ will take place at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on 17-18 July 2009. Nothing on early tattooing according to the programme, but papers will explore the signifying potential of flesh and body surfaces in a range of other medieval contexts. For a programme and booking, see the conference website.
Cultures et Conflits: Issue Proposal
Published February 10, 2009 Calls for Papers , Member Activities , Publications Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, Globalisation, Migration, Policing, Profiling, Registration, Surveillance
Posted by Didier Bigo
Numéro de Cultures et Conflits consacré à la thématique
« Conséquences humaines de l’échange transnational des données individuelles »
Didier Bigo et Pierre Piazza (dir.)
Depuis quelques années, on assiste à l’échelon transnational à une accélération et amplification du processus de partage et d’échange d’informations sur les personnes. Surtout légitimé comme un indispensable impératif de sécurité en vue de faire face efficacement à des risques et menaces susceptibles de saper les fondements de la démocratie (terrorisme, criminalité organisée, immigration illégale, fraudes, etc.), l’essor de ce processus prend forme à travers la mise en place d’une multitude de canaux et de dispositifs (via par exemple, dans le cadre de l’UE, la mise en avant des principes de disponibilité de l’information et d’interopérabilité des systèmes servant à la récolter) qui, rendant possible une massification de la circulation de ces informations, implique désormais un nombre croissant d’acteurs étatiques (services de renseignement, d’immigration, de contrôle des frontières, magistrats, etc.) et supranationaux (Interpol, Europol, Eurojust, etc.). Ces informations à caractère personnel dont le traitement autorise notamment l’accomplissement de pratiques policières sous-tendues par une logique proactive d’anticipation des comportements (data mining, profilage, etc.) concernent des individus stigmatisés comme dangereux enregistrés sur des « listes de suspects » mais aussi des catégories de personnes de plus en plus larges (systématisation du recours aux passengers name records, aux identifiants biométriques, etc.) sur lesquelles s’exercent à présent de nouveaux modes de contrôle et de surveillance.
Britain: A ‘Surveillance State’?
Published February 6, 2009 News Stories Leave a CommentTags: Britain, CCTV, Civil Liberties, DNA Databases, Registration, Surveillance
An Upper House report on ‘Surveillance: Citizens and the State’ has warned that Britain risks becoming a ‘surveillance state’. The report, published today by the Lords Constitution Committee, argues that the proliferation of CCTV cameras (the highest density in Europe) and the growth of the UK’s DNA database (‘the largest in the world’) are undermining democracy, and recommends a raft of controls including tighter judicial oversight of surveillance and new codes of practice for the use of CCTV. For full details see BBC News, while the report itself can be accessed here. Picture: stock.xchng
Conference(s): National Identity in Eurasia
Published February 5, 2009 Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Central Asia, Globalisation, Migration, Passports, Russia
Two forthcoming conferences on the theme of ‘National Identity in Eurasia’ will cover topics relating to the documentation of identity. Organised by National Identity in Russia from 1961: Traditions and Deterritorialisation, a research group based in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, the first will explore Identities & Traditions (New College, Oxford, 22-24 March 2009) while the second will explore Migrancy & Diaspora (Wolfson College, Oxford, 10-12 July 2009). For programmes and booking, see the conferences webpage. Picture: stock.xchng
