The Johns Hopkins University Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship presents its Eighth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday, April 5, noon-6 p.m., Olin 305
Keynote: Friday, April 5, 6:15-8 p.m., Olin 305
Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sherwood Room, Levering Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s conference interrogates the normalization of surveillance in our everyday life. Going beyond \u201csurveillance\u201d as a buzzword, the conference will present interdisciplinary research that considers what might constitute the monitoring of bodies and actions across a variety of lived experience. To deepen our understanding of surveillance, we ask: How can we critically think about the ways constant scrutiny exacerbates, rather than resolves danger, risk and fear, often for marginalized groups? Can we imagine surveillance as something that multiplies modes of insecurity rather than reducing them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University will deliver the conference keynote: “From the Expository Society to the Counterrevolution: How Surveillance Made Possible the Counterinsurgency Paradigm of Governing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conference will conclude with a roundtable titled, \u201cSurveillance on the Ground\u2019 with Dornethia Taylor (Black Lives Matter DC), David Rocah from (ACLU-Maryland), and Emily Manna (Open the Government). Stuart Schrader (Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins) will chair the roundtable. The event will be held on Saturday, April 6 from 4-6 p.m. in Sherwood Room, Levering Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Friday, April 5, 2019<\/strong> Registration and Lunch<\/strong> Welcome Remarks<\/strong> Panel 1: Navigating, Negotiating and Resisting<\/strong> Febi Ramadhan (Northwestern University, Anthropology): Capturing the Pain of Other: The Everyday Reenactment of Disidentification toward Homosexuality by the Spectators of Public Caning in Aceh, Indonesia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Qiuyu Jiang (McGill University, Anthropology): Navigating China\u2019s Surveillance for Foreigners: Individual Strategies and Visa-Partnerships among African Migrants in Guangzhou<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Noah Schuster (The New School, Politics): Surveillance Power in Contemporary Retail Labor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Coffee Break<\/strong> Panel 2: Texts and Aesthetics of Surveillance<\/strong> Karen Alderfer (New York University, Media, Culture and Communication)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heba Islam (Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology): Entangling the Fictional and the Real: Writing Surveillance in Pakistan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Location: Olin 305<\/p>\n\n\n\n
noon\u20131 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1\u20131:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1:30\u20133 p.m.
Chair: Marco Motta
Discussant: Sonal Sharma<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3\u20133:15 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Discussant: Marios Falaris<\/p>\n\n\n\n