Bhalisa 4 | Bergen | Programme

Day 1  |  Monday, June 27, start time:  9:00am

Venue : Location: Natural History Museum, University of Bergen (“Forhandlingrommet”) https://www.universitetsmuseet.no/nb/praktisk  Google Map

Drafts of papers or slides for distribution by Jun 5, 2022 Copies of papers and slides are here.

Introductions : 9:00 

Panel 1 Histories of Registration |  9:30 to 11:00 

• Walter Bartl Population Registers and Census Taking in Germany: A Contentious Relationship (Slides, on the day)
• Radoslaw Poniat Identification of domestic servants in Poland (17th–20th century)
• Ian Watson The Nordic ID Tradition:  Five Countries, Five Systems (Slides, precirc) 

Panel 2  Tax visibility and registration |  11:30 to 13:00

• Helge Brunborg History of Norwegian Population Registration.  (Precirc) (Slides, preric on the day)
• Cláudio Muniz Machado Cavalcanti  Brazil’s CPF – from tax number to potemkin ID.
• Jonathan Klaaren Tax Transparency and Legal Visibility (Precirc)

Panel 3  Nordic Systems and Problems | 14:00 to 16:00

• Marianne Henriksen The Norwegian Tax Administration and the need for an holistic Identity Management. (Slides, on the day?) 
• Marte Kjørven & Tone Linn Wærstad “Societal Security and Digital Identities” (Slides, on the day)
• Pål Nesse – IDs and related obstacles to basic rights and integration for refugees and asylum seekers in Norway (Slides)
• Tobias Wijk “Swedish Tax, Population Registration and Identity Management.” (WD)

Summation Reflections on Day 1

• Comments Mia Harbitz

Day 2  |  Tuesday, June 28, start time:  9:00am

Venue : UIB Law Faculty https://goo.gl/maps/LtrG55tgf8kX1Sz46 

Panel 4 Capabilities and Exclusion | 9:00 to 11:00 

• Romesh Silva Measuring the Invisible: Data and Estimates of the Population Lacking Proof of Legal Identity (Precirc)
• Imke Harbers and Wendy Hunter  Social Policy and the Inclusion of Older Women in Registration Systems (Slides on the day)
• Fernando de Medina-Rosales Documentation and Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Displaced Persons (Precirc)

Panel 5 Capabilities and Digital Identification | 11:30 to 13:00 

• Malavika Raghavan, Emrys Schoemaker, and Edgar A. Whitley How can digital identity systems contribute to developmental social justice? Evidence from three digital identity initiatives (Slides, on the day)
• Babatunde Okunoye SDG 16.9 vs SDG 11: Situating digital Identity enrollment in Africa within the context of broader sustainable development goals. Nigeria as a case study. 
• Silvia Masiero Digital Identity as Platform-Mediated Surveillance: A Study of Design Properties (Slides, in advance)

Panel 6 Recent Histories (4 papers) | 14:00 

• Alena Thiel, Byron Villacis (Berkeley), Daniel Capistrano (UC Dublin), and Christyne Carvalho da Silva (INEP) Statistical innovation in the Global South: vectors of translation in the population censuses of Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Sierra Leone (Precirc)
• Georges Eyenga Undocumented at Home? The identity tensions of biometric registration in Cameroon (Precirc)
• Eve Hayes de Kalaf The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context 

Concluding discussion :  4:00pm - 5:30pm 

• Comments :  Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge

End time:  Tuesday 6pm.

Faculty of Law, University of Bergen

Preluding On-Line Events 

Meeting in Bergen, June 27 - 8

Sunday, June 26.

Guided tour of Bryggen focusing on the Hanseatic League’s place in the city’s identity by Professor Geir Atle Ersland starting at 12:00.  More here.

Day 1  |  Monday, June 27, start time:  9:00am

Venue : Location: Natural History Museum, University of Bergen (“Forhandlingrommet”) https://www.universitetsmuseet.no/nb/praktisk  Google Map

Drafts of papers or slides for distribution by Jun 5, 2022 Copies of papers and slides are here.

Introductions : 9:00 

Panel 1 Histories of Registration |  9:30 to 11:00 

• Walter Bartl Population Registers and Census Taking in Germany: A Contentious Relationship (Slides, on the day)
• Radoslaw Poniat Identification of domestic servants in Poland (17th–20th century)
• Ian Watson The Nordic ID Tradition:  Five Countries, Five Systems (Slides, precirc) 

Panel 2  Tax visibility and registration |  11:30 to 13:00

• Helge Brunborg History of Norwegian Population Registration.  (Precirc) (Slides, preric on the day)
• Cláudio Muniz Machado Cavalcanti  Brazil’s CPF – from tax number to potemkin ID.
• Jonathan Klaaren Tax Transparency and Legal Visibility (Precirc)

Panel 3  Nordic Systems and Problems | 14:00 to 16:00

• Marianne Henriksen The Norwegian Tax Administration and the need for an holistic Identity Management. (Slides, on the day?) 
• Marte Kjørven & Tone Linn Wærstad “Societal Security and Digital Identities” (Slides, on the day)
• Pål Nesse – IDs and related obstacles to basic rights and integration for refugees and asylum seekers in Norway (Slides)
• Tobias Wijk “Swedish Tax, Population Registration and Identity Management.” (WD)

Summation Reflections on Day 1

• Comments Mia Harbitz

Day 2  |  Tuesday, June 28, start time:  9:00am

Venue : UIB Law Faculty https://goo.gl/maps/LtrG55tgf8kX1Sz46 

Panel 4 Capabilities and Exclusion | 9:00 to 11:00 

• Romesh Silva Measuring the Invisible: Data and Estimates of the Population Lacking Proof of Legal Identity (Precirc)
• Imke Harbers and Wendy Hunter  Social Policy and the Inclusion of Older Women in Registration Systems (Slides on the day)
• Fernando de Medina-Rosales Documentation and Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Displaced Persons (Precirc)

Panel 5 Capabilities and Digital Identification | 11:30 to 13:00 

• Malavika Raghavan, Emrys Schoemaker, and Edgar A. Whitley How can digital identity systems contribute to developmental social justice? Evidence from three digital identity initiatives (Slides, on the day)
• Babatunde Okunoye SDG 16.9 vs SDG 11: Situating digital Identity enrollment in Africa within the context of broader sustainable development goals. Nigeria as a case study. 
• Silvia Masiero Digital Identity as Platform-Mediated Surveillance: A Study of Design Properties (Slides, in advance)

Panel 6 Recent Histories (4 papers) | 14:00 

• Alena Thiel, Byron Villacis (Berkeley), Daniel Capistrano (UC Dublin), and Christyne Carvalho da Silva (INEP) Statistical innovation in the Global South: vectors of translation in the population censuses of Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana and Sierra Leone (Precirc)
• Georges Eyenga Undocumented at Home? The identity tensions of biometric registration in Cameroon (Precirc)
• Eve Hayes de Kalaf The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context 

Concluding discussion :  4:00pm - 5:30pm 

• Comments :  Simon Szreter and Keith Breckenridge

End time:  Tuesday 6pm.