Surveillance Societies: What Price Security?

April 24-26, 2009 in New York City

Speakers include: David Lyon, Queen's University, Cindi Katz, Graduate Center, CUNY, Charles Strozier, John Jay College, CUNY

Possible panel topics: historical considerations, zones of surveillance, scopic economies, religious apparatuses of surveillance, power dynamics of networked societies, criminality and surveillance, reconsiderations of Orwell and Foucault, education and surveillance of students and faculty, surveillance, security, and emotion, nationalism and security, militarization of society, surveillance in literature and film

For more information, visit http://www.macaulay.cuny.edu/conference/surveillance.html or email macaulayconference at mhc.cuny.edu