[ATHENA] "Understanding surveillance in a long-term perspective – the case of Scandinavia around 1914", A. Marklund, 26 novembre séminaire HSHI

["Arielle Haakenstad" <athena AT services.cnrs.fr>]

 

Chers collègues,

 

Andreas Marklund
Coordinateur de la recherche au Post and Tele Museum du Danemark

interviendra

sur l’histoire de la surveillance

le jeudi 26 novembre à 17h00

au séminaire Histoire des sciences, histoire de l'innovation
(Université Paris Sorbonne, UPMC, LabEx EHNE)

dans la salle de conférence de l’Institut des sciences de la communication (ISCC) 20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, Paris 13°, M° Gobelins.

Présentation de son intervention :

Understanding surveillance in a long-term perspective – the case of Scandinavia around 1914

 Surveillance studies is an emerging field of academic research that has generated new perspectives and questions to the study of the past. In this lecture, I aim to explore the historical connections between modern telecommunications and the development of practices for state surveillance. My focus is on Denmark and wider Scandinavia during World War One: a period that witnessed an enormous increase in Scandinavian telecommunications traffic, but also the implementation of new administrative routines and technologies for secret monitoring and censorship. I shall argue that WW1 was a “game changer” in the process, at least from a Scandinavian point of view. However, I will also stress that the history of surveillance has dimensions that must be understood in the longue durée, as they point back to pre-modern conceptions of (absolute) state power, including a deep-seated distrust against secrecy in private forms of communication.

 

Prochaines séances:

• 3 décembre             Simon Werrett, (University College London)
  The Longitude Grounded: William Whiston, Rockets, and Surveying in the Eighteenth Century

• 10 décembre           Steven L. Kaplan, (Cornell University)
  La transition “subsistancielle” : lumières économiques, mouture économique et transformation de la meunerie

• 17 décembre            Alex Wellerstein, (Stevens Institute of Technology)
  The secret histories of laser fusion

 

Bien cordialement

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Arielle Haakenstad
Laboratoire d'excellence EHNE Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe
Coordinatrice axe 1 " L’Europe comme produit de la civilisation matérielle : l'Europe des flux "
labex-ehne1 AT listes.paris-sorbonne.fr
Université Paris-Sorbonne
Institut des sciences de la communication (ISCC)
20 rue Berbier du Mets
75013 Paris
+33 (0)1 58 52 17 85
http://europeflux.hypotheses.org/
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