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"The Vulnerable Citizen: Surveillance and Privacy in everyday Life"
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2002-10-19 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-06-05 |
| Announcement ID: |
127826 |
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The Institute for the Humanities, The Medical Humanities Program,
The Chicago Seminar, and The Gender and Women’s Studies Program
at the University of Illinois at Chicago present
The Vulnerable Citizen: Surveillance and Privacy in Everyday Life
October 19-20, 2001
The University of Illinois at Chicago
The conference will focus on perceptions of vulnerability in everyday life in the United States. Speakers will explore the following issues:
-the paradoxical role of the state as regulator and guardian
-voyeurism and confessionalism
-technologies of surveillance including medical, racial, consumer, and criminal profiling
-monitoring in the home and workplace, and
-the strategic use of space to regulate movement, time and desire.
Plenary sessions:
Wendy Kaminer, author and social critic
Randall L. Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Speakers will include:
Douglas C. Baynton, University of Iowa
Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Frances E. Dolan, Miami University
Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers University
Dennis R. Judd, University of Illiniois at Chicago
Stephen Katz, Trent University
Evan C. McKenzie, University of Illiniois at Chicago
Sonya Michel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lynn M. Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University
David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago
This conference is free and open to the public.
Additional speakers, exact times, locations, and paper titles will be
announced. For further information, contact:
Linda Vavra, Assistant Director, Institute for the Humanities, 701 S. Morgan, MC 206, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. 60607-7040;
312/996-6352; fax 312 996-2938; email lvavra@uic.edu
or visit the conference website.
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