Thursday, 29 September 2011

Registration from 4 p.m. Medical Sciences and Anatomy Building, UCL

6 p.m., Keynote Lecture (1), De Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, UCL
Tom Gunning, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
“Screening out the Visible: Identity and Representation in the Early 20th-Century Detective Genre”

Followed by a Reception, 7:30-8:30

Friday, 30 September 2011

9-10:30 --Arts of Surveillance-- Chair, Richard Taws, History of Art, UCL

Michael Berkowitz, Modern Jewish History, Dept. of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL,
“Between Surveillance, Subterfuge, & Intimacy: Erich Salomon, His Cohort, & the Origins of Photojournalism”

James Harding, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie U. Berlin & Dept. of English, Univ. of Mary Washington,
“Surveillance, Counterintelligence and the Seductive Rhetoric of Performance: Overseeing ‘das Englandspiel’ and ‘the Double-Cross System’ in Encrypted WWII Radio Transmissions”

Sarah E. K. Smith, Dept. of Art, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada,
“In/Visibility: Exposing the Data Double Through Contemporary Art”

10:45-12:30 --Justice under Surveillance-- Chair, Ian Christie, Film Studies, Birkbeck

Charlotte Brunsdon, Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick,
“Against Simplicity in the Story of Surveillance”

Leslie J. Moran, Law, Birkbeck College,
“Watching the Judiciary”

Linda Mulcahy, Law Department, London School of Economics,
“Is Justice Seen to Be Done? Segregation, Segmentation, an Surveillance in th Courtroom,”

Barbara Villez, Legal Language and Culture, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes-St Denis,
“The Telephone Camera and the Courtroom: New Technologies and Practices of Citizen Surveillance”

[Lunch 12:30-1:30]

1:30-2:45 -- Keynote Lecture (2) De Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, UCL
Simon Cole, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine,
“The CSI Effect: Forensic Science Between ‘Reality’ and Fiction”

3:00-4:45 --States of Surveillance-- Chair, Barbara Penner, Bartlett School, UCL

Rebecca A. Adelman, Media & Communications Studies Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
“‘Safe, Humane, Legal, Transparent’: State Visions of Guantánamo Bay”

Katherine Chandler, Dept. of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley,
“Technological Sensing: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the Politics of Surveillance”

Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley,
“The Electronic Eyes of Justice: Surveillance, Territory and the Rule of Law in Mexico City”

Henrietta Williams, photographer, London, and George Gingell, mapmaker, London,
“Entering the Panopticon: London’s Ring of Steel”

5-6:15 Round Table, The Autopsies Research Group, “Surveillance Objectified”
Stephanie Fuller, Karolina Kendall-Bush, Roland-François Lack, Michael McCluskey talk about their research

6:30-8:00 Reception

Saturday, 1 October 2011,

9:00-10:45 --Resistances to Surveillance-- Chair, Mandy Merck, Film Studies, Royal Holloway, U. of London

Anton Tantner, Dept. of History, University of Vienna,
“Between Order and Resistance: House Numbering as Surveillance Technology”

Larry Frohman, Department of History, SUNY, Stony Brook,
“Protesting the Surveillance State: Computers, the 1983/1987 Census Boycotts, and the Quest for Authenticity in West Germany”

Melanie Francis, Dept. of Art History, University of Nottingham,
“From the Prison to the Museum: Criminal Identity in Contemporary Art”

Vicky Chainey Gagnon, Curator, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Christina
Battle, Artist and Assistant Professor, Film Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, “‘Filing Memory’: An Exhibition Project Exploring Multi-Dimensional Memory and Surveillance”

11:00-1:00 --Strategies of Discipline /Identification and the Body-- [Chair: TBA]

Edward Higgs, History Dept., University of Essex,
“Visions of the Body and the Identification of the Deviant, 1500 to the Present”

Stephanie Schwartz, History of Art, UCL,
“Public Portraits: Walker Evans’s Hidden Camera”

David Rojinsky, Dept. of Spanish, King’s College, London,
“The Social Life of ID Photographs in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay”

11:00-1:00 --Privacy, the Visual Sphere, and Surveillance-- Chair, Michael Krause, Potsdam University

David Lyon, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada,
“Surveillance as a Way of Life”

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Comparative Literature and Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University,
“The Face Value: Simulacra and Surveillance of the Covered Face in the Age of Hypervisibility”

David Barnard-Wills, Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Cranfield University,
“The Insights and Blind-spots of Visual Approaches to Surveillance”

(Lunch 1-2)

2:00-4:00 --Mid-twentieth-Century Crises of Colonialism and War--

Chair: Stephen Hart, Dept. of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL

Tom Rice, Film Studies, University of St. Andrews,
“Watching Audiences in the British Empire”

James Purdon, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, “‘Decamped--without a Trace!’: Surveillance and Indexicality in
Interwar Fiction and Film”

Jane Caplan, History, Oxford University,
“‘Ausweis Bitte!’ Identity and Identification in Nazi Germany”

Amit Prakash, Dept. of History, Bryn Mawr College,
“‘All the Same, We Watched Them a Bit’: Everyday Policing of North Africans in Paris in the 1950s”

2:00-4:00 --Disciplining the Urban-- Chair, Richard Dennis, Department of Geography, UCL

Ellie Herring, Architecture and Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh,
“From Dusk until Dawn: Disciplining the City with Light”

Jessica Hindes, English Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Urban Voyeurs: Surveillance Culture in GWM Reynolds’s Mysteries of London”

Quentin Deluermoz, History, University of Paris, XII, Paris Nord,
“The Uniform and the Pencil: Visibility and Police Writing in Metropolitan Culture of the Nineteenth Century”

4:30-6:30 --Film and Surveillance-- Chair, Mark Betz, Film Studies, King’s College London

Lawrence Webb, Film Studies, King’s College London,
“Cinema, Space and the Politics of Surveillance in Seventies New York”

Elena Meilicke, Media Studies, Bauhaus University, Weimar,
“Audio Surveillance in Paranoia Thrillers”

Olga Zhulina, Comparative Literature and Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University,
“What Happens in Vegas: The Films and Surveillance of Sin City”

Dietmar Kammerer, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg,
“What Can Humanities and Film Studies Contribute to Debates about Surveillance Culture?”