Surveillance and Humanities Virtual Conference Series
Surveillance is central to the functioning of 21st century capitalism and modern social welfare. It has often been displayed as necessarily intrusive and threatening. The present initiative builds on the suggestions that an articulate discussion about humanities could be fruitful in producing a more complex picture and that literary works in particular could flesh out operative concepts in studies of surveillance.
This webinar series seeks to address surveillance meaning, scope and representation, and to initiate a conversation between arts, humanities and the various fields which surveillance is used.
Part 1: In sickness and health, surveillance in an age of COVID-19
Monday 24 August 5 pm to 6:15 pm
Part 2: Surveillance and policing
Thursday 27 August 5 pm to 6 pm
Part 3: Space and Power
Monday 31 August 5 pm to 6:15 pm
Part 4: Surveillance versus privacy
Thursday 3 September 5 pm to 6 pm
Part 5: Critical perspectives on surveillance: post-colonialism, gender and social control
Monday 7 september 5 pm to 6 pm
Part 6: Surveillance, utopia, satire in 18th century British literature
Thursday 10 september 5 pm to 6:15 pm