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.
Posts Tagged 'Biometrics'
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
CFP: Biopolitics Across Borders
Published November 16, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Biopolitics, Genetics, Globalisation, Security
Papers are invited for a graduate student conference on Biopolitics Across Borders: Ideas and Practices, to be held at Columbia University on 9 April 2010. The conference will explore the ideas and practices of biopolitics on a transnational scale, the contribution of managing human life to international conflict and cooperation, and the challenges to transnational biopolitics as they have manifested at an individual and community level. Proposals with a historical dimension are particularly welcome; for further information and submission guidelines, see the conference flyer (pdf).
CFP: Identity and Organizations (IDIS10)
Published September 28, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, Globalisation, ID Cards, Identity Theft, Legal Frameworks, Policy, Privacy, Security, Surveillance, technology, Twentieth Century
The third Identity in the Information Society Workshop (IDIS10), to be held in Rome on 26-28 May 2010, has just issued its call for papers on the theme of ‘Identity and Organizations’ (public or private, local or global, formal or informal). Topics might include, but are not limited to: new identity technologies; emerging practices enabled by identification processes; changing notions of identity; information and identity risks; surveillance and privacy issues; and regulatory and legal implications. The deadline for the receipt of full papers (4,000-6,000 words) is 10 December 2009; for further information and submission guidelines visit the workshop website.
New Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
Published July 30, 2009 Publications Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Fingerprinting, Forensics, Policing
Posted by Massimiliano Pagani. A new version of the Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition was published in May 2009. The authors announce that this is not a mere new edition. The 2009 book is a major update that describes the most recent advances in fingerprinting, represented by over 500 papers on fingerprint recognition published between 2003 and 2008. The DVD included with the book also contains the databases used in the 2004 Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC 2004). For full details and ordering information see the Springer website. Picture: stock.xchng
Special Issue: Traceability and Networks
Published May 7, 2009 Member Activities , Publications Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, France, Policing, Privacy, Registration, Social Networks, technology, Twentieth Century
The French social science journal Hermès has dedicated its April issue (number 53) to the timely theme of ‘Traceability and Networks’. Articles explore the tracking of personal information across a wide range of social and technological contexts, and pay particular attention to the privacy implications of electronic data collection, ‘Web 2.0′ applications and online social networks. IdentiNet member Pierre Piazza has also contributed an article on the expansion of police records in recent decades, and the increased potential for administrative dysfuction and misuse of personal data that this has entailed. An overview of the issue’s contents can be found here (pdf), while detailed abstracts (with English translations) can be found here (pdf). Picture: xtof/flickr (CC)
Paper: Police and Identification in France
Published April 11, 2009 Papers Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Crime, Eighteenth Century, Europe, Forensics, France, Policing, Registration
Vincent Denis, a Professor of Modern History at the Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne , is due to deliver a paper at the University of Oxford entitled ‘Police and Identification in France, From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Empire’. Denis has published widely on the history of individual identification in eighteenth-century and Napoleonic France, and most recently is the author of Une histoire de l’identité: France, 1715-1815 (Champvallon: Seyssel, 2008). His paper will take place on Monday 27 April 2009 at 5.15pm in the Mordan Hall of St Hugh’s College; for more information see here.
CFP: 3rd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
Published March 13, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Fingerprinting, Security, technology
The ’3rd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS)’ will take place in Valencia on 20-23 January 2010. The event will bring together researchers from biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, and papers are requested on a range of applications used fpr identification including biometrics, pattern recognition and speech recognition. The deadline for the submission of full papers is 21 July 2009; for further details and submission instructions, see H-Net or the conference website.
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.
Summer School: Multimodal Systems and Identity Management
Published February 3, 2009 Summer Schools Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics
The 6th IEEE International Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication will be held in Alghero (Italy) on 8-12 June 2009 on the theme of ‘Multimodal Systems and Identity Management’. The school will be open to around fifty highly qualified, motivated and pre-selected applicants. PhD students, post-docs, researchers or industrial professionals in the field are encouraged to apply. The expected fees will be in the order of €1,200 for Phd students and €1,800 for others (subject to change), although a limited number of scholarships (around five) will be awarded to the best PhD students selected on the basis of their scientific background and on-going research. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2009; for further details and how to apply, see the school website.
