8:45 - 9:00 am Welcome
David Lyon, GPD Principal Investigator
9:00 - 10:30 am IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION: THEORY
Session chair: Kirstie Ball, The Open University
David Lyon: Card Cartel: An Oligopoly on the Means of Identification
Cheryl Brown: Does Culture Matter?
10:30 - 10:45 am BREAK
10:45 am - 12:30 pm COUNTRY CASE ANALYSES (I) Canada - US
Session chair: Kirstie Ball, The Open University
Krista Boa: Conceptualizations of Identity and Biometrics in National Identity Systems
Andrew Clement*, Krista Boa*, Simon Davies** and Gus Hosein**
* Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
** Policy Engagement Network, London School of Economics: Toward National ID Policies for Canada: Federal Initiatives and Alternative Principles
Kelly Gates: National ID through the Back Door: The US Real ID Act
12:30 - 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 pm COUNTRY CASE ANALYSES (II) UK
Session chair: Elia Zureik, Queen's University
Scott Thompson: Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The UK's National Registration Program and Social Sorting in the Pre-Electronic Era
Charles Raab: Dilemmas of Identity and Identification
3:00 - 3:30 pm BREAK
3:30- 5:00 pm COUNTRY CASE ANALYSES (III) Australia-France
Session chair: Elia Zureik, Queen's University
Laurent Laniel and Pierre Piazza: The INES Biometric Card and the Politics of National Identity Assignment in France
Dean Wilson and Peter Holland: Identity, Power and Australia's Access Card
6:00 pm DINNER (Treasure Island Marina [Hope and Anchor Restaurant], Hwy 2 E, just past Abbey Dawn Road)
9:00 - 10:30 am COUNTRY CASE ANALYSES (IV) South Africa -- UAE
Session chair: L. Lynda Harling Stalker, GPD Post-doctoral Fellow
Keith Breckenridge: The Politics of Standards: Understanding the HANIS Debacle
Zeinab Shalhoub: Population ID Systems in the Middle East
10:30 - 11:00 am BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 COUNTRY CASE ANALYSES (V) Japan -- India
Session chair: L. Lynda Harling Stalker, GPD Post-doctoral Fellow
Midori Ogasawara: "Dataveillance" Determines Who Deserves Citizenship: National Identification Systems in Japan
12:30 - 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 pm INTERNATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGY REGIMES
Session chair: Mark Salter, University of Ottawa
Jeffrey Stanton et al: ICAO and the Biometric RFID Passport
Willem Maas: The European Health Insurance Card
3:00 - 3:15 pm BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 pm CRITICAL APPROACHES
Session chair: Mark Salter, University of Ottawa
Ben Muller: Membership has its Privileges: Insecure/Suspect Identities and the Biometric State
Simone Browne: E-Racing: Cards, Symbolic Insiders and the Case of the Certificate of Indian Status
4:45 - 5:30 pm WRAP-UP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARY: Colin Bennett
7:00 pm DINNER - Pan Chancho, 44 Princess Street
With no formal session arranged for today it may be possible for participants remaining in town to take a bus tour around Kingston or a boat trip on the St Lawrence River.
