The Group for the Study of History of Prison and Punitive Institutions organises the 3rd International Congress on the History of Prison and Punitive Institutions, under the title Control and punishment devices, following up the 2nd Congress held in Albacete in September 2019.

The aim of the congress is to articulate a space for fruitful exchange, for sharing lines of research recently carried out in the field of punitiveness, taking into account the control and disciplinary logics that are projected in different institutions and geographies. As in previous editions of this Congress, there is a clear intention of bringing closer contributions both from the historiographical field (from the Middle Ages to Contemporary History and even immediate history) and the analyses most concerned with current modulations of the punitive, which are being promoted from other disciplines such as Sociology, Anthropology or Law. This will be a great opportunity to update the state of the historical investigation on control and punishment experiences and institutions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, in a context marked by a growing presence of warfare, projecting itself onto different social dimensions, we deem necessary and urgent to reflect again with a critical eye on the ways in which the notion of punishment can be rethought and the forms it has taken and takes in different social spheres.

The conference has been organised in the framework of a research project: “Historia y presente del control social, las instituciones punitivas y los cuerpos de seguridad en España (siglos XX-XXI): Prácticas, discursos y representaciones culturales”. (PID2021-123504NB-I00)