A one-day workshop on ‘Immigration and National Identity in British History: Europe, Empire, and Commonwealth’ will take place in the Dahrendorf Room of St Antony’s College, Oxford from 10am–5pm on Monday 18 January 2010. Sponsored by the Slavic Research Centre of Hokkaido University in Japan, in association with St Antony’s College, the workshop will feature six papers on experiences of migration and identity in British imperial and colonial contexts, and will conclude with a general discussion. There is no charge for attending the workshop (delegates can purchase their own lunch from the St Antony’s dining hall), but if you wish to attend – and for full programme details – please contact the organizer on hiromi.mizokami(at)sant.ox.ac.uk. Picture: Flickr/Northampton Museum (CC).
Posts Tagged 'Globalisation'
Workshop: Immigration and National Identity in British History
Published December 22, 2009 Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Britain, Empire, Europe, Globalisation, Migration, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
CFP: Migration and Border-Crossing
Published February 3, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: Globalisation, Migration, Passports
A conference on ‘Mapping the World: Migration and Border-Crossing’ will be held at the Centre for the Humanities at National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan) on 17-18 October 2009. Papers are invited on the themes of migration and cityscapes; borders and border crossing; the politics of frontiers; cultural assimilation and the politics of language; transformations of languages and dialects; language and nationhood; representations of the (im)migrant in literature and media; (im)migration and diaspora; travel and exploration; maritime culture, literature, and the arts; and nationalism, post-nationalism, and the (im)migrant. The deadline for 200-word abstracts is February 25 2009; for further details and how to apply, see H-Net.
Workshop: La Mondialisation de l’Etat Civil
Published February 2, 2009 Conferences , Member Activities Leave a CommentTags: Appropriation, Civil State, Globalisation
On 27 March 2009, IdentiNet members Béatrice Fraenkel and Claudine Dardy are organising a workshop in Paris on the theme of ‘La Mondialisation de l’Etat Civil’. Full details and a programme will be posted to the blog shortly. Picture: stock.xchng
