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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
- 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:
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