Projet Bertillon has recently launched. Coordinated by IdentiNet participants Ilsen About and Pierre Piazza, and hosted by Criminocorpus, this valuable online resource offers a comprehensive overview of the life and work of Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), a pioneer of forensic identification methods at the Paris Prefecture de Police whose criminological expertise ranged from mug shots, anthropometry, and dactyloscopy through file management and the analysis of crime scenes. The site, which is available in both English and French, contains innovative online galleries of Bertillon-related imagery as well as academic resources such as biographies, bibliographies, and links, and is also inviting the submission of new articles on Bertillon for online publication in 2011. For further information, please visit Projet Bertillon.
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Projet Bertillon Launches
Published April 14, 2010 Calls for Papers , Member Activities , Projects and Centres , Websites Leave a CommentTags: Bertillon, Biometrics, Crime, Fingerprinting, Forensics, France, Nineteenth Century, Photography, Policing, Profiling
Surveillance Studies Centre Launches
Published January 15, 2010 Member Activities , Projects and Centres , Websites Leave a CommentTags: CCTV, Civil Liberties, ID Cards, Policy, Privacy, Surveillance, Twentieth Century
The Surveillance Project, the interdisciplinary, international research initiative based in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University under the direction of IdentiNet member David Lyon, relaunched today as the Surveillance Studies Centre. The SSC will both expand the existing research programme (in particular The New Transparency Project) and serve as a platform for new funding applications. It will also ‘advance the surveillance studies field by way of workshops, lectures and seminars, empirical work, publishing, community outreach, liaising with policy and activist groups, and student training’. For full details, see the new centre website.
The Identity Project
Published December 20, 2009 Conferences , Exhibitions , Member Activities , Websites Leave a CommentTags: DNA Databases, Genetics, Imposture
The Identity Project, a nine-month season of activity from the Wellcome Trust, is currently underway in London and elsewhere. The Trust supports a large amount of research into genetics (including the Human Genome Project), and the season is intended to explore ‘scientific and social perspectives of identity – historic and contemporary – to encourage debate and discussion and to ask how well we will ever be able to know ourselves’. The season includes an exhibition entitled Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives, as well as several other events throughout the UK, including a workshop on 23 January 2010 on Secret Lives, which will feature a contribution from IdentiNet lead investigator Professor Edward Higgs (University of Essex). For further details, see The Identity Project website.
New Identity Cards Website Launched
Published November 22, 2009 Websites Leave a CommentTags: Civil Liberties, Globalisation, ID Cards, Policy, Surveillance, Twentieth Century
A new website on national ID cards has been launched: http://www.identity-cards.net. The website contains a comprehensive listing of national ID cards by geographical region worldwide, as well as a list of resources on the topic. Users can also submit and update information about national ID card systems globally. The website has been developed under The New Transparency Project, and was inspired by the book Playing the Identity Card (Routledge, 2008), edited by Colin Bennett and IdentiNet member David Lyon. It is maintained and updated by a group of students and faculty from Queen’s University and the University of Victoria.
