Venue 
UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Campus. 43 boulevard du Jardin Botanique, 1000 Brussels
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please send an email before January 15th, 2024 with the subject “registration Police Intelligence conference” to antoine.renglet@uclouvain.be.
Program
Thursday, January 25 (Room P02)
9h00-9h15: Welcome coffee
9h15-9h30: Introduction
9h30-10h30: Knowledge and expertise (I) (Chair: Xavier Rousseaux, UCLouvain)
- Guus Meershoek (Twente University/Dutch Police Academy), Modernizing criminal investigation in Amsterdam. The emergence of the concept of modus operandi
- Philippe Hebeisen (Université de Neuchâtel/Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle, Paris 1-Sorbonne Université), Learning, using and transmitting (new) police techniques: Neuchâtel and Switzerland at the turn of the 20th Century
10h30-10h45: Coffee break
10h45-12h15: Knowledge and expertise (II) (Chair: Antoine Renglet, UCLouvain)
- Marco Cicchini (Université de Genève), Urban legibility and police intelligence during the Enlightenment: reassessing Guillotte
- Andrew Brown (Independent Scholar), Who was British State built to notice? George Bakewell in Victorian England’s “Society of Strangers”
- Amélie Gaillat (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), The evolution of the use of informants as part of information gathering practices in France, England, and Ireland at the end of the 19th century
12h15-13h30: Lunch
13h30-15h00: Races, gender and sexualities (Chair: Nathalie Tousignant, UCLouvain)
- Catherine Denys (Université de Lille), « Noté de police » in the Île-de-France (Mauritius) : Police Intelligence in the French Ancien Régime Colonial Context
- Romain Jaouen (Science Po Paris, CHSP), Intelligence-led policing at the 20th century’s midpoint? The case of vice-squad work and homosexuality in Paris
- Herbert Reinke, Reader’s Digest and Police Intelligence? The (Re-) Rise and Fall of Data Collections on “Gipsies” in the Federal Republic (early 1950s to 2000)
15h00-15h15: Coffee break
15h15-16h45: Mobilities and migrations (Chair: Margo De Koster, Ghent University)
- Torsten Feys (Flanders Marine Institute), From information to intelligence: foreign sources within the Sûreté Publique’s web of informants to monitor immigrants in Belgium, 1839-1914
- Sarah Frenking (Erfurt Universität), Border (Crossing) Intelligence. Practices and Perceptions of Police Inspectors at the French-German Border around 1900
- Laura Di Fiore (Universita Degli Studi di Napoli), Following the Exiles. Police Intelligence in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the 1850s.
Friday, January 26 (Room P61)
9h00-10h30: Imperial circulations and Imperial legacies (Chair: Xavier Rousseaux, UCLouvain)
- Arda Akinci (Universidad de Salamanca), Threats, Practices and Integration to the European Security Culture: The Modernization of Policing and Surveillance in the Ottoman Capital Istanbul during the Rein of Abdulhamid (1867-1909)
- Maggie Freeman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Arab Legion and the Architecture of Policing in Jordan (1921-1946)
- Laura M. Calkins (Texas Tech University), Beyond Breaking the Black Market: Rice Rationing in Postwar Singapore and the Internationalization of Police Intelligence Work
10h30-11h00: Coffee break
11h00-12h30: Political threats and political transitions (Chair: Nico Wouters, National Archives of Belgium)
- Jonathan Daly (University of Illinois at Chicago), Intelligence, the Russian Security Police, and the Threat of Revolution
- Corneliu Pintilescu (George Baritiu History Institute of the Romanian Academy Cluj-Napoca), From Anarchist to communist Danger”: Policing the Radical Left and Developing the Transnational Collaboration of the Siguranţa (1908-1924)
- Maïté Van Vyve (Ghent University), Bombs, Bullets, and Borders: Cooperation Between the Belgian Intelligence Services, Local Police and Russian Ochranka in Their Hunt for the Anarchist Abraham Hartenstein (1909)
12h30-13h45: Lunch
13h45-15h45: Techniques, administration and operational management (Chair: Michaël Amara, National Archives of Belgium)
- Jonas Campion (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Information Sources or Intelligent Documents? Exploring the History of Policing in Twentieth Century Quebec Through Police Activity Reports
- Anja Johansen (University of Dundee), Policing the police: Gathering, archiving and use of citizens’ complaints as intelligence for managerial knowledge in Berlin and Paris, 1890-1914
- Hjørdis Birgitte Ellefsen (Norwegian Police University College) and Heidi Mork Lomell (University of Oslo), Intelligence policing before ILP? A Norwegian case study
- Achilleas Fotakis (National and Kapostrian University of Athens), People, papers and statistical tables. Information sources in the Greek police forces, 19th-20th century
15h45-16h00: Coffee break
16h00-16h30: Conclusion, David Churchill (University of Leeds)
Full program available here