This conference brings together scholars examining the social and political lives of documents. Designed around a multi-year research project organized by Richard Banegas and Séverine Awenengo Dalberto at Sciences Po, Paris, the conference will showcase this research into the material life of documents and identification regimes and their movement from documentary to biometric regimes. It also brings this scholarship into comparative discussion with scholars working on similar issues in Latin America and South Asia and other parts of Africa. Taking seriously, but moving beyond, the link between identification regimes, state surveillance, and control, the conference examines - historically and ethnographically - how bureaucratic logics and technological practices of identification have migrated from the state into populations at large. There, these logics and technologies have been put to a variety of different uses from contesting state power to articulating new moral and political subjectivities. Speakers include: Richard Banegas, Louise Barre, Frederick Cooper, Laurent Fourchard, Lisa Gitelman, Kregg Hetherington, Brian Larkin, Bhavani Raman, and Drew Thompson.
Schedule
9:30 -9:45 Laurent Fourchard (Sciences Po), Brian Larkin (Barnard): Welcome
9:45-10:15 Richard Banegas (Sciences Po)
10:15-10:45 Dino Cutolo (Sciences Po)
10:45-11:15 Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto
11:15-11:30 Brian Larkin (Barnard): Comments
11:30-11:55 Questions
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)
1:30-2:00 Laurent Fourchard (Sciences Po)
2:00-2:15 Lisa Gitelman (NYU) : Comments
2:15-2:40 Questions
2:40-3:15 Coffee
3:15-3:45 Drew Thompson (Bard College)
3:45-4:15 Louise Barre (Sciences Po)
4:15-4:30 Frederick Cooper (NYU): Comments.
4:30-5:00 Questions
