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.
Posts Tagged 'Passports'
Summer School: New Approaches to Political History
Published February 24, 2009 Summer Schools Leave a CommentTags: Britain, CCTV, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Passports, Security, 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.
Identification et Surveillance des Individus
Published January 28, 2009 Conferences , Member Activities Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, France, Passports, Surveillance, technology
Following on from the workshop on ‘Identification et surveillance des individus: quels enjeux pour nos Démocraties?’ held in Paris a fortnight ago which we flagged below, high definition video interviews with the speakers have been posted (in French) to the web. Here, IdentiNet member Pierre Piazza describes his research on the shift from paperized to biometric modes of identification:
Interviews were also held with Vincent Denis (historian), Sébastien Laurent (historian), Christian Aghroum (divisional commissioner), Laurent Bonelli (conference organiser), Jean-Claude Vitran (League of Human Rights), Sylvia Preuss-Lausinotte (lawyer), Thierry Rousselin (spatial imaging consultant), Anastassia Tsoukala (criminal lawyer), and Jérôme Thorel (‘Big Brother Awards’).
Workshop: Identification et Surveillance des Individus
Published January 15, 2009 Conferences , Member Activities Leave a CommentTags: Biometrics, Civil Liberties, France, Passports, Surveillance, technology
This Saturday (17 January 2009), the Paris Pompidou Centre hosts a workshop on ‘Identification et surveillance des individus: quels enjeux pour nos Démocraties?’. A wide range of academics, journalists and consultants (including IdentiNet member Pierre Piazza) will attend to the political, philosophical, social, economic and legal implications of the recent proliferation of identification and surveillance practices in light of terrorist threats, increasing global mobility and the availability of ever more sophisticated technologies. For details and a full programme, download the pdf flyer or visit the workshop webpage. Picture: stock.xchng
Protocols of Identification in the Early Modern Metropolis
Published January 6, 2009 Publications Leave a CommentTags: Badging, Britain, Crime, Early Modern, Imposture, London, Passports, Registration
Paul Griffiths’ eagerly anticipated study of petty crime in early modern London – Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City, 1550-1660 - has recently been published by Cambridge University Press, and is teeming with identification angles. It discloses a metropolis ‘flooded… with false papers’, in particular the counterfeit vagrant travel permits and forged beggars’ licenses around which a booming cottage industry developed. It also discusses the compulsory badging of fishwives, the false identities created by suspects and the use of bodily branding to signal dubious pasts (‘Like paper, bodies had spaces to put data that might come back to haunt a recidivist’), and devotes an innovative concluding chapter to the systematic recording of suspects’ names and offences in the Bridewell courtbooks. These ‘active archives’, carefully alphabeticised and often equipped with additional finding aids such as calendars, tables and indexes, were used by magistrates to piece together criminal biographies, and participated in a larger project of ‘numbering Londoners’ manifested elsewhere in parish registers, tax lists and censuses of vagrants, aliens, alehouse-keepers and street-sellers.
