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.
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<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
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<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/
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<br>*Deadline: 29 February*
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<br>*205. Unpacking the Foundations of the Current Biometric Moment*
<br>*Michelle Spektor*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; *Ranjit Singh*,
<br>Cornell University
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<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.
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