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The Political Economy of Surveillance: A Research Workshop

Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK

9 – 11 September 2010

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Thursday, September 9
Open University

14:00 – 17:00 LiSS business meetings:

Thursday, September 9
Milton Keynes Hilton Hotel

18:00 – 19:00 Opening Keynote Lecture: Jonathan Bamford, Head of Strategic Liaison, Information Commissioner’s Office, UK

 19:00 Reception and dinner

Friday, September 10
Open University, Hub Theatre

The Hub Theatre is called "Lecture Theatre" on the OU map; it is north of Walton Hall.

08:30 Introduction

08:45 – 10:15 Panel (A): Securitising the private sector

Panel Chair: David Phillips, University of Toronto 

  1. Kirstie Ball, Elizabeth Daniel; Maureen Meadows, Sally Dibb and Keith Spiller
    "Taking The War On Terror To The Private Sector: Exploring Private Sector
    Responses To Government Surveillance Regimes"
  2. Minas Samatas, “The SAIC-SIEMENS Olympic Surveillance project in Greece vis a vis the  ‘Big Sisters’ Global Surveillance  Business”
  3. Eric Topfer,  “Metamorphis and symbioses of German Wehrtechnik: Genesis and Practice of the Federal Government’s “Civil Security Research Programme”
  4. David Murakami Wood “The Private Sector, National Security and Personal Data”

10:15 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

10:45 – 12:15 Panel (B): Political economies of urban surveillance

Panel Chair: David Murakami Wood, Queen's University 

  1. Gemma Clavell, “The political economy of surveillance in the (wannabe) global city”
  2. Roy Coleman, “The Synoptic State: Class, Surveillance and Urban Ordering”
  3. Steve Graham, “When Life Itself is War: The Urbanisation of Military and Security Doctrine"
  4. Gavin Smith and Stephanie Nairn, “The Visibility and Trivialisation of the Trojan Horse? Surveillance Representation in Advertising and Popular Culture”

12:15 Lunch, on site (30 minutes)

12:45 - 14:15 Panel (C): Anti corruption and corporate crime

Panel Chair: Steve Graham, Newcastle University 

  1. Hans Klause Hansen, “Ethical Recoding through Surveillance: The case of business in the anti-corruption industry”
  2. Laureen Snider and Adam Molnar, “The 'Great Unwatched' and the 'Lightly Touched'*: Surveillance and Stock Market Fraud”
  3. Ana Isabel Canhoto, “A critical examination of AML profiling practices in UK retail banking”
  4. Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University, "An End to Privacy Theater: Exposing and Discouraging Corporate Disclosure of User Data to the Government"

14:30 SHARP to board coach for field trip to Bletchley Park National Codes Centre; meet at OU Walton Hall lot

Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

18:00 Dinner – Milton Keynes Hilton Hotel

 

Saturday, September 11
Open University, Hub Theatre

08:30 Introduction and logistical updates

08:45 - 10:15 Panel (D): Law, risk and governance

Panel Chair: Ana Canhoto, University of Reading

  1. Andras Pap, “Access to judicial proceedings in the internet age – a democratic requirement or a constitutional black hole?”
  2. John Guelke “The Use of Surveillance Technology by State and Private Actors”
  3. Stéphane Leman-Langlois, “Insecurity as an Engineering Problem:
    the Technosecurity Network”
  4. Adam Warren, Morag Bell and Lucy Budd, “Predicting pandemics: using event-based surveillance to identify public health risk”

10:15 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

10:45 - 12:15 Panel (E): Digital Surveillance Techniques for Business and Social Applications

Panel Chair: Andres Montoyo

  1. Jose-Norberto Mazón, Irene Garrigós,  César Alonso, Octavio Glorio, Paul Hernández, Jose Alfonso Aguilar, Jose Jacobo Zubcoff and Juan Trujillo, “Business Intelligence at the reach of SMEs”
  2. Mike Thelwall, “Detecting and analyzing emotion in social networking sites”
  3. Veronique Hoste and Bart Desmet, “Sentiment detection for suicide prevention”
  4. Doina Balahur, Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, Paul Dobrescu, Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, “The ‘unknown unknowns’: risk, surveillance and crime control in late modernity”

12:15 Lunch, on site (30 minutes)

12:45 - 14:15 Panel (F): Political economies of personal information

Panel Chair: Veronique Hoste, University College Ghent

  1. Dan Trottier, Queen’s University, “’Grow Bigger Ears': The Political Economy of Visibility on Social Media”
  2. Jason Pridmore, “Collaborative Surveillance: The configuration of surveillance subjects”
  3. Drs Harper, Ellis and Tucker, “The organisation of life: Everyday experiences of surveillance and dataveillance technologies

14:15 - 15:45 Panel (G): Politicising new technologies as surveillance

Panel Chair: Laureen Snider, Queen's University 

  1. David J. Phillips, Michael Murphy, and Karen Pollock, “Surveillance and the Political Economy of the Cloud”
  2. Ben Brucato, “Success or Surveillance: A Case Study of Proximity Scanners at a U.S. State University”
  3. Darren Palmer, “The pursuit of exclusion and the capacity to banish: executive authority, judicial extension and surveillance technologies”
  4. David Lyon, Queen’s University, “Promoting Global Identification: Corporations, IGOs and ID card systems”

15:45 Coffee Break (15 minutes)

16:00 Concluding Summaries

  • David Lyon, Kirstie Ball, and Laureen Snider

 17:00 – 18:30 NewT team meeting (Hub theatre)

19:00 Dinner – Milton Keynes Hilton Hotel

 

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