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