Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:30 – 2 pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411
Coming from a background in literary and cultural theory, Dr.Veel’s approach to surveillance studies has centered on the negotiation between visibility and invisibility in contemporary culture and how this comes to the fore in aesthetic forms ranging from literature, film, art and architecture. Her talk aims to spark a lively discussion on what surveillance studies is and the different ways in which it can be conducted.
About the Speaker: Kristin Veel completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, German Department 2008. Her research interests focus on the impact of digital technology on contemporary cultural imagination with a particular interest in issues of information overload and surveillance and the way in which these are represented in contemporary film, art and literature. She is author of the monograph Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009) and co-editor of the collected volume The Cultural Life of Crises and Catastrophes (2012) with Carsten Meiner, and 'Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture' (2015) with Henriette Steiner. Dr.Veel is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and she is the Principal Investigator on the collaborative project UncertainArchives.
Everyone welcome!
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada