The New Transparency is associated with The Surveillance Studies Centre.
A key component of our project are the research seminars we regularly hold throughout the academic term to draw other co-investigators, students, and partners together for round-table discussions.
The seminars are organized by Sachil Singh. For seminar dates/times, plus other SSC/New Transparency events, see the event calendar.
Tags: SSC Seminar Series
Laureen Snider, Professor emeritus
Sociology, Queen's University
Co-investigator, The New Transparency
Wednesday, April 4
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University
This presentation examines the transformation of stock market trading through surveillance technologies and the theoretical, cultural and political effects of this transition. Market trading today is conducted via algorithms through banks of computers simultaneously accessing multiple data sets which generate thousands of buy and sell orders per second. The interactions of these high frequency trades (HFT) have created unpredictable, uncontrollable feedback loops which pose significant risk to world capital markets, which the jobs and pensions of millions of people depend upon (as illustrated in the 2010 “flash crash” and the 2008 financial crisis). The presentation first traces the rise of surveillance technologies in global capital markets, arguing that these “innovations” have generated windfall profits for elite financial firms – Wall Street banks and their global equivalents - and enormous risk for everyone else. Second, it demonstrates the negative impact High Frequency and associated practices have had on the regulation and policing of stock market fraud.
Tags: Laureen Snider, SSC Seminar Series, trading
Harrison Smith, PhD candidate
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Wednesday, March 7
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University
Tags: Harrison Smith, North America, SPP, SSC Seminar Series
Lucas Melgaço, PhD
Visiting post-doctoral fellow, SSC
Wednesday, February 8
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University
Tags: Brazil, education, Lucas Melgaco, SSC Seminar Series
Jeffrey Monaghan, PhD candidate
Dept of Sociology, Queen's University
Wednesday, January 25
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry D411
Tags: SSC Seminar Series
Michel Doiron
Senior Review Officer
Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner (Ottawa, Ontario)
Tags: CSIS, Michel Doiron, national security, SSC Seminar Series
George Lovell (Professor, Department of Geography, Queen's University)
Tags: geography, Latin America, Lovell, SSC Seminar Series
Jianjun Liu (PhD, visiting from the Faculty of Law, Shandong University of Political Science and Law)
Tags: CCTV, China, SSC Seminar Series
Kiyoshi Abe (Professor, visiting from the Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
Tags: Abe, Japan, mega-events, SSC Seminar Series
Francesca Menichelli (PhD candidate, visiting from the Department of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca)
Tags: CCTV, Menichelli, SSC Seminar Series
