The 2018
fall conference, sponsored by the
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library, will take place on November 8-9. The topic, "Seeing Like a Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America," will examine the "non-state surveillance activities that might be found in a variety of business settings and industries, involve a range of formal or informal practices, and might be directed at customers, media audiences, borrowers, consumer markets, employees, or labor." The
program has now been posted on the Hagley website.
Sarah E. Igo (Vanderbilt University) will open the conference with a keynote address on Thursday, evening, November 8, in which she will discuss her new book,
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press, May 2018).
Conference panels will take place throughout the day on Friday, November 9.
There is no fee, but attendees must register in advance. Please contact
Carol Lockman if you would like to attend, and see the
full conference announcement on the Hagley website.
