Cultures of Surveillance:
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Thursday 29 September, Friday 30 September, and Saturday 1 October 2011
at University College London (UCL)
at University College London (UCL)
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Location: Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre
in the Anatomy Building, UCL, Gower Street, London. WC1E 6BT
Hosted by the UCL Film Studies Space:
The Centre for the Cultural History of the Moving Image
Sponsored by UCL Graduate School, UCL FIGS, UCL SELCS, and UCL Research Challenges
Registration is now closed
A review of the conference can be found here.
in the Anatomy Building, UCL, Gower Street, London. WC1E 6BT
Hosted by the UCL Film Studies Space:
The Centre for the Cultural History of the Moving Image
Sponsored by UCL Graduate School, UCL FIGS, UCL SELCS, and UCL Research Challenges
Registration is now closed
A review of the conference can be found here.
Conference Programme [printer friendly version below]
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Registration (check-in for registrants and in-person registration)
from 4 p.m. Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, UCL. Enter from Gower Street
6 p.m., Keynote Lecture (1), JZ 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”
Chair, Jann Matlock, Dept. of French, UCL.
7:30-8:30, Reception
Friday, 30 September 2011
Registration (check-in for registrants and in-person registration)
from 8:30 a.m. Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building. Enter from Gower Street.
All panels on Friday held in JZ Young Lecture Theatre.
9 a.m.-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”
12:30-1:30, Lunch
1:30-2:45, Keynote Lecture (2), JZ 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”
Chair, Lee Grieveson, Film Studies, UCL.
3:00-4:45, States of Surveillance, Chair, Barbara Penner, Bartlett School of Architecture, 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”
[see a selection of images relating to this presentation]
5-6:15, Round Table, The Autopsies Research Group, “Surveillance Objectified”
Stephanie Fuller, Karolina Kendall-Bush and Roland-François Lack talk about their research. Chair, Jacob Paskins, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
[see also our Autopsies of Surveillance pages]
6:30-8:00, Reception
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Please note locations for parallel sessions
9:00-10:45, Resistances to Surveillance, Chair, Mandy Merck, Film Studies, Royal Holloway, U. of London
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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”
[see image relating to this presentation]
11:00-1:00, Strategies of Discipline / Identification and the Body, Chair, Michael Krause, Potsdam University
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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, Jann Matlock, UCL.
Pearson Lecture Theatre, Pearson Building, UCL Main Quadrangle
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”
Michael McCluskey, Department of English Language and Literature, UCL,
“A Day in the Life of a Street: Mass Observation, Surveillance and Social Housing”
David Lyon, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada,
“Surveillance as a Way of Life” Video stream of presentation available here.
1:00-2:00, Lunch
2:00-4:00, Mid-twentieth-Century Crises of Colonialism and War, Chair, Stephen Hart, Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL
Pearson Lecture Theatre
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
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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?”
PDF version of programme available here:
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Registration (check-in for registrants and in-person registration)
from 4 p.m. Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy building, UCL. Enter from Gower Street
6 p.m., Keynote Lecture (1), JZ 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”
Chair, Jann Matlock, Dept. of French, UCL.
7:30-8:30, Reception
Friday, 30 September 2011
Registration (check-in for registrants and in-person registration)
from 8:30 a.m. Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building. Enter from Gower Street.
All panels on Friday held in JZ Young Lecture Theatre.
9 a.m.-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”
12:30-1:30, Lunch
1:30-2:45, Keynote Lecture (2), JZ 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”
Chair, Lee Grieveson, Film Studies, UCL.
3:00-4:45, States of Surveillance, Chair, Barbara Penner, Bartlett School of Architecture, 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”
[see a selection of images relating to this presentation]
5-6:15, Round Table, The Autopsies Research Group, “Surveillance Objectified”
Stephanie Fuller, Karolina Kendall-Bush and Roland-François Lack talk about their research. Chair, Jacob Paskins, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
[see also our Autopsies of Surveillance pages]
6:30-8:00, Reception
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Please note locations for parallel sessions
9:00-10:45, Resistances to Surveillance, Chair, Mandy Merck, Film Studies, Royal Holloway, U. of London
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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”
[see image relating to this presentation]
11:00-1:00, Strategies of Discipline / Identification and the Body, Chair, Michael Krause, Potsdam University
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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, Jann Matlock, UCL.
Pearson Lecture Theatre, Pearson Building, UCL Main Quadrangle
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”
Michael McCluskey, Department of English Language and Literature, UCL,
“A Day in the Life of a Street: Mass Observation, Surveillance and Social Housing”
David Lyon, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada,
“Surveillance as a Way of Life” Video stream of presentation available here.
1:00-2:00, Lunch
2:00-4:00, Mid-twentieth-Century Crises of Colonialism and War, Chair, Stephen Hart, Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL
Pearson Lecture Theatre
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
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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
JZ Young Lecture Theatre
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?”
PDF version of programme available here:
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Alphabetical list of paper abstracts and brief biographies of presenters (PDF):
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