Postgraduate Conference Bursary 2008 The academic network `The…

Postgraduate Conference Bursary 2008
 The academic network `The Documentation of Individual Identity: Historical,
      Comparative & Transnational Perspectives Since 1500', based at the
 University of Oxford and funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is delighted to
 announce five postgraduate bursaries for its inaugural workshop to be held
at St Antony's College on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September 2008. The
  bursaries will cover travel to Oxford and subsistence costs to the maximum
  value of £300, and will allow doctoral and recent postdoctoral candidates to
     spend two days sharing their research and discussing key themes in the
 documentation of individual identity with the leading international authorities
                                   in the field.


   Identinet comprises over twenty academics from Europe, Asia, Africa and
   North America with wide-ranging interests in the practices and histories of
 individual identification and registration (from fingerprinting and iris scanning
 to passports and birth certificates). We are particularly interested in the objects
     and methods of identification; its surveillance vs. enabling attributes; its
imperial and transnational dimensions; and the development and dissemination
   of identification techniques over the longue durée. Full details can be found at
   http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/identinet/. We welcome applications from all
disciplinary backgrounds. Candidates should send electronic copies of their CV
  together with a 500-word statement describing how their research interests
  intersect with our project to jane.caplan@sant.ox.ac.uk, ejhiggs@essex.ac.uk
         and james.brown@history.ox.ac.uk by Friday 15 August 2008.