SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series

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.

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SSC Seminar Series: Laureen Snider

Date: 
April 4, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Laureen Snider, Professor emeritus
Sociology, Queen's University
Co-investigator, The New Transparency

Surveillance, Stock Markets and Everyday Life

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

SSC Seminar Series: Harrison Smith

Date: 
March 7, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Harrison Smith, PhD candidate
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Surveillance and Prosperity Partnerships: An Examination of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, 2005-2009

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

SSC Seminar Series: Lucas Melgaço

Date: 
February 8, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Lucas Melgaço, PhD
Visiting post-doctoral fellow, SSC

Students under control: rationalization of educational spaces through surveillance practices

Wednesday, February 8
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University

Tags: Brazil, education, Lucas Melgaco, SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: Jeffrey Monaghan

Date: 
January 25, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Jeffrey Monaghan, PhD candidate
Dept of Sociology, Queen's University

Terror Carceralism: Surveillance and Punishment of Terror Convicts in Canada

Wednesday, January 25
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry D411

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SSC Seminar Series: Michel Doiron

Date: 
January 11, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Michel Doiron
Senior Review Officer
Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner (Ottawa, Ontario)

Tags: CSIS, Michel Doiron, national security, SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: George Lovell

Date: 
November 23, 2011 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

 Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 2:00 pm

George Lovell (Professor, Department of Geography, Queen's University)


Tags: geography, Latin America, Lovell, SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: Jianjun Liu

Date: 
November 9, 2011 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

 Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Jianjun Liu (PhD, visiting from the Faculty of Law, Shandong University of Political Science and Law)

Tags: CCTV, China, SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: Kiyoshi Abe

Date: 
October 26, 2011 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Kiyoshi Abe (Professor, visiting from the Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University)

Tags: Abe, Japan, mega-events, SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: Francesca Menichelli

Date: 
October 12, 2011 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Francesca Menichelli (PhD candidate, visiting from the Department of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca)

Tags: CCTV, Menichelli, SSC Seminar Series

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