21-22 April 2006 - Hefter Conference Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Constant Capture: Visibility, Civil Liberties, and Global Security" will investigate the role of visual media and imaging technologies in two interrelated areas: the policies and practices of global security and the struggle for civil liberties around the world. Bringing together security experts, scholars, writers, artists, and activists, it will provide a forum for interdisciplinary and cross cultural dialogue addressing the following questions: How have visual media and imaging technologies been deployed for security purposes in both national and global contexts and how have they been used to promote individual and social freedom? Are global security and civil liberty opposed? complementary? incommensurable? Do policies relating to global security hinder or facilitate the emergence of a global civil society? What role might media and technology play in imagining and visualizing, dramatizing, enacting such a global civil society? Is such a global society even desirable? Shouldn't local struggles unfold at the local level or are they embedded in wider struggles? In an ambiguous age of globalization, how to keep such struggles local or, conversely, how best to network them together?

This is CIE's 7th international scholarly conference devoted to intersections of media, technology and security. It has been organized by Lane Hall, Jon McKenzie and Patrice Petro and will take place at the Hefter Conference Center on April 21-22, 2006.