---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Gregg <melissa.gregg@sydney.edu.au> Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:49 PM Subject: [csaa-forum] Surveillance and/in Everyday Life - Call for Papers To: "\"csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au\"" <csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au> Apologies for cross-posting Surveillance and/in Everyday Life: Monitoring Pasts, Presents & Futures An International Conference featuring Professor David Lyon, Queen’s University, Canada February 20th – 21st 2012 Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS The intensification and diversification of surveillance in recent decades has been remarkable. CCTV cameras, private investigators, loyalty cards, body scanners, DNA swabs, RFID tags, Web 2.0 platforms/protocols and internet cache cookies constitute only some of the many instruments facilitating the routine extraction and collection of personal information. Advancement in technological applications, and wider cultures of risk, uncertainty, distrust and consumption, have all helped to legitimate and naturalize surveillance as a multi-purpose tool in the everyday lives of individuals and organizations. Yet, whilst surveillance seems increasingly embedded in the physical and cultural fabric of contemporary living, and whilst surveillance today is qualitatively and quantitatively different from previous modes, it is by no means a novel phenomenon. From time immemorial, detailed records have been accumulated on the health, morality, cognitive development, motivations, sexualities, incomes, work activities and whereabouts of certain populations – not to mention on animal relations, planetary constellations, environmental conditions, and the like. In the past, as in the present, forms of life have been and are targeted by a polymerous array of monitoring and recording devices. Moreover, surveillance as a mode of social regulation, a cultural medium, a symbolic resource and a companion species is set to further dominate the political, economic and socio-cultural landscapes of future human societies and social assemblages; but with what implications for social justice, social relations and subjectivities? This conference critically considers the significance of everyday surveillance in relation to temporality, exploring the changing nature of surveillance as it relates to cultural specificities, past transformations, present landscapes and possible/emergent futures. CONFERENCE THEMES & STREAM ORGANIZERS HEALTH, BIO-INFORMATICS & BIO-SECURITY – abstracts to: martin.french@queensu.ca WORK, ORGANIZATIONS & ECONOMY – abstracts to: gavin.smith@sydney.edu.au CRIME, LAW & NATIONAL SECURITY – abstracts to: pat.omalley@sydney.edu.au THEORISING SURVEILLANCE – abstracts to: kane.race@sydney.edu.au MEDIA, CULTURE & CONSUMPTION – abstracts to: kathy.cleland@sydney.edu.au PRIVACY & PUBLICITY – abstracts to: stephen.robertson@sydney.edu.au TECHNOLOGIES, POLICIES & PRACTICES – abstracts to: garner.clancey@sydney.edu.au OTHER – abstracts to: peter.marks@sydney.edu.au ABSTRACT INFORMATION/FORMAT & REGISTRATION FEES Authors are required to identify and specify on abstracts the general thematic stream (from those listed above) in which their paper best resides. Thus, please send a 250-word abstract for review to the designated stream organizer. Where possible, abstracts should be in a Microsoft Word format, in ‘Times’ font, size 12. The paper’s title and the author details section should be embolded and centred. To be considered by the panel, abstracts MUST include: a title, author name(s), departmental/institutional affiliation(s) and contact email address(es). Please note that the conference committee will evaluate the quality, merit and suitability of each abstract before a decision of acceptance/rejection is taken. Selected papers will be given a 20-minute presentational slot and 10-minutes for questions. Registration includes both tea/coffee breaks and lunch. Registration payment categories for this event are as follows: Academic/Professional AUD $200* * For registrations made BEFORE December 15th 2011, $225 AUD thereafter. Concession (Unwaged, Students and Pensioners) AUD $50 IMPORTANT DATES: Call for papers/panels circulated: AUGUST 10TH 2011 Abstracts (250-words) due: OCTOBER 3RD 2011 Acceptance letters distributed: OCTOBER 24TH 2011 Registration opens: OCTOBER 31ST 2011 Registration closes: FEBRUARY 1ST 2012 FURTHER INFORMATION: Please visit: http://surveillanceandeveryday.com/ -- Dr Melissa Gregg Department of Gender and Cultural Studies Quadrangle Building A14 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia p + 61 2 9351 3657 | m + 61 408 599 359 | e melissa.gregg@sydney.edu.au http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs/staff/profiles/mgregg.shtml New book: *Work’s Intimacy *http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745650279 Also out: *The Affect Theory Reader *(edited with Gregory J Seigworth) http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17901 _______________________________________ csaa-forum discussion list of the cultural studies association of australasia www.csaa.asn.au change your subscription details at http://lists.cdu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/csaa-forum -- Natalya Godbold PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney ¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .~´¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .~´¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .><((((º>`~.¸¸.~´¯`~.¸.~´¯`~...¸><((((º> .,,.~´¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .....,,.><((((º>`~.¸¸.~´¯`~.¸.~´¯`~...¸><((((º> .~´¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .,,.~´¯`~.. ¸><((((º>¸. .~´¯`~.. 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