PROGRAM
Day One
15 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
Address: Wachsbleichstraße 4A, 01067 Dresden
15 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
Address: Wachsbleichstraße 4A, 01067 Dresden
15:00 - 15:30
Arrival, Coffee and Registration
15:30 - 16:00
Welcome Remarks
Michelle Pfeifer & Philipp Seuferling
16:00 - 17:30
Panel I: Infrastructures of mobility and containment Chair: Michelle Pfeifer, TU Dresden
Samuel Uwem Umoh (University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, South Africa)
Politics of Racialized Surveillance: The History of Mobility Containment in Apartheid South Africa
Asko Lehmuskallio (Tampere University)
Tracing histories of the 'smart' passport
Atriya Dey & Sourayan Mookerjea (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Smart Borders Within: Speculation and Security in Rajarhat New Town, India
18:00 - 19:30
Keynote Lecture
Dr Iván Chaar-López (University of Texas, Austin)
Border Matters: History, Technopolitics, and Inscriptions in Action
Day Two
16 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
16 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
10:00
Arrival and Coffee
10:30-12:00
Panel II: The media of borders
Chair: Celia Brightwell, TU Dresden
Mehak Sawhney (McGill University)
Aqua Audibilis, or, How Borders Are Mediated Underwater?
Philipp Seuferling (LSE)
Bordering as a cultural technique
Lucrezia Canzutti and Martina Tazzioli (King's College London)
Digital-nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper trails and Migrants’ scattered subjectivities at the border
12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-15:00
Panel III: Data, documents, databases
Chair: Eylül Iscen, ICI Berlin
Arantxa Ortiz (Brandeis University, USA / Leiden University, NL)
“Will Your Driver’s License Fly?”: Identity Technologies and Interoperability Politics in the Post-9/11 United States
Anirban Mukhopadhyay (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Colonial Continuities and Neofascist Tendencies: Bordering, Smart Technologies, and Citizenship in India
Michelle Pfeifer (TU Dresden)
Administering Crises and Reform: The Life and Times of a Migration Database
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Panel IV: Visualities and representations
Chair: Philipp Seuferling, LSE
Marla A. Ramirez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Picturing Race: Photographic Identification in the Making of Mexican Illegality
Katerina Loukopoulou (Middlesex University London)
The Marshall Plan’s Media Campaign: Re-drawing Europe’s Borders and the Liminal Case of Greece
Zeynep Devrim Gursel (Rutgers University)
Photographing never: Ottoman Armenian Emigrants and the rise of a global mobility surveillance regime, 1896-1908
Day Three
17 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
17 November 2023
Location: Dachsaal, riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden e.V.
10:00-10:30
Coffee and Pastries
10:30-12:00
Panel V: Imaginaries of seamlessness and experimentation
Chair: Nelly Y. Pinkrah, TU Dresden
Stephan Scheel (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Histories and Visions of Seamless Travel: (En)Countering Camouflaged Sovereignty at the Frictionless Border
Anna Okada (Durham University)
Seamless Passenger Journey: Further normalizing the insecuritization of traveller identities
Ariana Dongus (TU Dresden)
Between experimentation and extraction: humanitarian industries and their influence in UNHCR sites since the 2000s
12:00-13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30
Panel VI: Securitization, externalization, and (re)territorialization
Chair: Orit Halpern, TU Dresden
Lupe Alberto Flores (Rice University)
Automating Border Inspections through CBP One and the Digital Externalization of the Mexico-US Boundary
Andrés Pereira (INES - CONICET / UNER, Argentina)
The digitalization of migration and border control in Argentina: legibility, securitization and South American migration and border regime.
Bernd Kasparek (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin)
Smart Borders, Re-Territorialisation and Europe's Constitutional Order
14:30
Conference Closing
Philipp Seuferling & Michelle Pfeifer
The conference is organized in collaboration between the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, Germany, and the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. The event is funded by the Internationalization Strategy of TU Dresden and the LSE Global Research Fund.
This project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the federal and state excellence strategy.
Location:
TU Dresden, Germany,
hosted by the Chair of Digital Cultures
Date:
15–17 November 2023
Format:
in-person presentations
Submission deadline:
14 July 2023
Organizing team:
Dr Michelle Pfeifer (TU Dresden): michelle.pfeifer1@tu-dresden.de
Dr Philipp Seuferling (LSE): p.seuferling@lse.ac.uk
The conference is organized in collaboration between the Chair of Digital Cultures at TU Dresden, Germany, and the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. The event is funded by the Internationalization Strategy of TU Dresden and the LSE Global Research Fund.
This project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the federal and state excellence strategy.