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  1. The Political Economy of Surveillance: A Research Workshop
    September 9, 2010 (All day) - September 11, 2010 (All day)

    Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK
    Sept 9 – 11 2010

    Funded by ‘The New Transparency’ Major Collaborative Research Initiative and ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ EU COST Action

    The New Transparency (‘NewT’) and the Living in Surveillance Societies COST action (‘LiSS’) presents a workshop on ‘The Political Economy of Surveillance’. One of the key driving forces behind the Surveillance Society is the interests and strategies of governmental and corporate organizations and their members. Whether these organizations
    are concerned with the control of crime, the administration of health or welfare, selling goods
    or managing risk, the collection, analysis and application of personal data is at the core of
    many of their activities. Marketing techniques designed to profile desirable ‘lifetime’ customers

  2. SSC Seminar Series - Research Roundup
    September 23, 2010 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm

    Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
    12:30 - 1:30 pm

    Kick off the new SSC Seminar Series at our annual Research Round-up.

    This meeting, traditionally the kick-off to the SSC Seminar Series at Queen's University, will give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update others on recent and ongoing research as it relates to the Surveillance Studies Centre. Please come prepared to discuss your current work.

    Pizza provided!

  3. Brockington Lecture: N. Katherine Hayles
    October 21, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

    Brockington Lecture: In the Shadows of Surveillance: Secret Codes in the Telegraph Era

    presented by N. Katherine Hayles
    Robert Sutherland Room 202
    Thursday, October 21, 2010

    N. Katherine Hayles is a social and literary critic, particularly in the fields of literature and science of the twentieth century, electronic textuality, modern and postmodern American and British fiction, critical theory and science fiction. She is currently Professor of Literature in the Literature Program at Duke University, as well as a Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCLA. She served as faculty director of the Electronic Literature Organization (www.eliterature.org) from 2001-2006.

  4. Cybersurveillance in Everyday Life
    May 12, 2011 - 9:00am - May 15, 2011 - 5:00pm

    Call for Participation

    Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life: An international workshop

    12 - 15 May 2011, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we work, play and negotiate public and private spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our movements in public space, as well as in the workplace. Corporate interests track our behaviour as we navigate both social and transactional cyberspaces, data mining our digital doubles and packaging users as commodities for sale to the highest bidder. Governments continue to collect personal information on-line with unclear guidelines for retention and use, while law enforcement increasingly use internet technology to monitor not only criminals but activists and political dissidents as well, with worrisome implications for democracy.

  5. Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar
    May 16, 2011 - 9:00am - May 21, 2011 - 11:59pm

    Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    16 - 21 May 2011

    Preliminary Information Only. Watch this space for updates including faculty, fees and other facts.

     


    The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar provides an intensive, multi-disciplinary learning experience that addresses key issues of surveillance studies in ways that enhance the participants' own research projects, as well as providing a unique national and international networking opportunity.

    “International and cross-cultural diversity of the participants is one of the strengths of the seminar. Because surveillance studies are related to social justice, equality, and power, it is crucial to have the perspectives from the world of non-English speaking people.” --2007 SSSS participant

    “Quality of faculty and attendees was excellent; social events well planned and spaced; location and setting excellent; well-planned and organized throughout.” --2007 SSSS participant

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