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  1. SSC Seminar Series: Lucas Melgaço
    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

  2. SSC Seminar Series: Harrison Smith
    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

  3. SSC Seminar Series: Elia Zureik
    March 21, 2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

    Elia Zureik, Professor emeritus
    Sociology, Queen's University
    Co-investigator, The New Transparency

    Colonialism as Surveillance: The Case of Israel/Palestine

    Wednesday, March 21
    12:30pm to 2:00pm
    Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University

  4. "Watch this Space: Surveillance Futures" Fifth Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference
    April 2, 2012 - 12:01am - April 4, 2012 - 6:00pm

    The Fifth Biannual Surveillance and Society/Surveillance Studies Network conference is to be held at the University of Sheffield and the Kenwood Hall Hotel (Sheffield) on the 2 – 4 April 2012.  The conference theme is ‘Watch this Space: Surveillance Futures’ and will feature a half day doctoral workshop on the 2nd April followed by the academic conference on 3rd – 4th April. There will be a fun-packed programme in an amazing setting.  The full text of the call is here. Further details can be found on www.surveillance-studies.net. Key dates for your diary are:
     
    31st October – register your expression of interest at sociological.studies@open.ac.uk
    7th January – abstract submission deadline
    23rd March – full paper submission deadline
    See the conference website.

    We look forward to seeing you all in April.

    Please circulate the call within your networks.

    Best wishes,
    Kirstie, Clive, Nilz, Nicola and Charles

  5. SSC Seminar Series: Laureen Snider
    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.

     

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