Message posted on 27/02/2020
EASST/4S panel #205: Unpacking the Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment
Dear all, <br> <br>Ranjit Singh (Cornell) and I hope you'll consider submitting abstracts to <br>our open panel at this year's EASST/4S conference: "205. Unpacking the <br>Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment." <br> <br>Please see below for more details and feel free to contact us with any <br>questions. <br> <br>Best wishes, <br> <br>Michelle Spektor <br>PhD Candidate <br>Doctoral Program in History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and <br>Society <br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology <br> <br>--------------------- <br> <br>IMPORTANT LINKS: <br>Submit your abstracts at <br>https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/prague20/ <br>Conference Website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/ <br>Travel Grants: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/travel-grants/ <br> <br>*Deadline: 29 February* <br> <br> <br>*205. Unpacking the Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment* <br>*Michelle Spektor*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; *Ranjit Singh*, <br>Cornell University <br> <br>From unlocking smartphones to verifying financial transactions, from <br>boarding airplanes to clocking in at work, and from issuing national IDs <br>and passports as tools of data-driven governance, the use of digital <br>biometric technologies that rely on fingerprints, facial recognition, iris <br>scans, and other metrics have increasingly become part of everyday life in <br>the 21st century. While the proliferation of biometrics-based digital <br>identities might be new, the use of biometrics – techniques of measuring <br>the human body – to identify and/or classify individuals and groups has a <br>much longer history. <br>This open track panel explores how individuals, states, and institutions <br>have used biometrics to define individual and collective identities <br>transnationally, and how those subjected to biometric identification <br>experience it, accept it, or resist it. By bringing together papers that <br>address how biometric identification encapsulates politics of identity in <br>both the past and present, the panel aims to illuminate how past biometric <br>systems inform the technological and socio-cultural features of the current <br>biometric moment. Broadly, it inquires into how biometric identification <br>(re)configures relationships among and across citizenship, migration, <br>borders, and national belonging; race, gender, class, and disability; <br>policing, surveillance, and criminality; labor, bureaucracy, and <br>imaginaries of technological progress; power, subjectivity, and the body; <br>social security, national security, and global development. It welcomes <br>papers that address how STS tools and concepts can be leveraged to unpack <br>the ways conceptions of identity shape and are shaped by biometric <br>identification infrastructures in the past, present, and future. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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