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WiSe 18/19: Ringvorlesung: Surveillance and Social Order

Markus Kienscherf, Lora Anne Viola

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Surveillance and Social Order: Visibility, Invisibility, and the Blurring of Boundaries Surveillance—broadly understood as a set of processes and practices for the collection, analysis, and application of information—has become a defining characteristic of late modernity. Although surveillance has ancient roots, new information technologies and the advent of big data have created conditions for the pervasive, penetrating, and highly consequential role of surveillance in the everyday lives of individuals, firms, and governments. New technologies allow watching to happen in greater depth, breadth, and immediacy. Technology, however, is only a precondition for our transformation into a new surveillance society. A wide range of social, political, cultural, and economic factors have made surveillance practices appear useful and even necessary. To understand surveillance, we need to consider the modes of governance that mobilize surveillance for the purposes of controlling and steering the process of social ordering. In particular, one of the central effects of surveillance is the blurring of boundaries. Processes and practices of surveillance are blurring traditional boundaries between the private and the public spheres, between private and public authorities, between the state and the corporation, between the police and the military, between logics of security and logics of profit, between the scrutinized and the scrutinizers. In a more general sense, surveillance blurs the line between the visible and the invisible, revealing some things as transparent and keeping others in utter obscurity. This lecture series interrogates the ways in which surveillance processes and practices are transformative of social order. In this spirit, we invite speakers to consider topics such as: the intersection of media and surveillance, capitalism and surveillance, surveillance in popular culture, the surveillance society as treated in historical or contemporary literature, surveillance as a mode of governance, surveillance and security, histories of surveillance, and many others. close

15 Class schedule

Additional appointments

Fri, 2018-11-16 17:00 - 19:00

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David Lyon (Queen's University): Trust and Transparency in Today's Surveillance Culture

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Wed, 18:00 - 20:00 15 Class schedule

Wed, 2018-10-17 18:00 - 20:00

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Donald Pease: Surveillance, Spectacle, and (In) Securitization after Trump

Wed, 2018-10-24 18:00 - 20:00

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Lora Ann Viola (JFK-I): Introduction to Surveillance Studies

Wed, 2018-10-31 18:00 - 20:00

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Markus Kienscherf (JFK-I): Welfare Surveillance and the Limits of Privacy

Wed, 2018-11-07 18:00 - 20:00

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Lee Flamand (GSNAS): "Listen Carefully": How The Wire Tele-Visualizes the Surveillance Society

Wed, 2018-11-14 18:00 - 20:00

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Kristie Ball (University of St Andrews): Surveillance, Institutional Trustworthiness and National Security Governance

Wed, 2018-11-21 18:00 - 20:00

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Thomas Dikant (GSNAS): Spies, Secret Societies, Agents Provocateurs: Allan Pinkerton's True Crime

Wed, 2018-11-28 18:00 - 20:00

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Randolph Lewis (The University of Texas at Austin): The Gospel of Insecurity: Surveillance, Religion, and Fear in Trump’s America

Wed, 2018-12-05 18:00 - 20:00

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Helen Gibson (GSNAS): Leisure and Risk in Cars: Resisting Racist Surveillance by Early Automobile Insurers

Wed, 2018-12-12 18:00 - 20:00

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Jean-Michel Turcotte (JFK-I): Securing and Understanding Prisoners of War, 1940 - 1953: US Policy and the Surveillance of Enemy Captives from World War II to the Korean War

Wed, 2019-01-09 18:00 - 20:00

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Sören Schoppmeier (GSNAS): The Politics of Playing Surveillance: Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs Videogames

Wed, 2019-01-16 18:00 - 20:00

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Simon Strick (JFK-I): Pepe Is Watching You: The Media Observers of the Alt-Right

Wed, 2019-01-23 18:00 - 20:00

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Johannes Völz (Goethe University Frankfurt): Privacy, Self-Surveillance, and the New Sincerity

Wed, 2019-01-30 18:00 - 20:00

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Harald Wenzel (JFK-I): The Cruiseship and the Inversion of Surveillance

Wed, 2019-02-06 18:00 - 20:00

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Anne Nassauer (JFK-I): Capturing Crime: How Surveillance Footage is changing Social Science Research

Wed, 2019-02-13 18:00 - 20:00

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Wrap-Up Session

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Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Schedule: Mi 18:00-20:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details

Class starts on: 2018-10-17

Course language: English

Contact hours: 2

Limited attendance: No

Attendance required: Yes

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WiSe 18/19: Ringvorlesung: Surveillance and Social Order

Markus Kienscherf, Lora Anne Viola

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15 Class schedule

Freie Universität Berlin

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