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The Surveillance Games: A Research Workshop

Program is subject to change.

The workshop will take place in the Earl and Jennie Lohn Policy Room 7000 at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC). Enter through the main (Hastings Street) entrance and when you get the the escalators, look to your right - there is a large sign for "TIME Centre." The elevators are down that corridor. Take them up to the 7th floor. The room (7000) is right across from the elevator door.

Day One: Friday, November 20


Location: Earl and Jennie Lohn Policy Room 7000 at the SFU Harbour Centre

8:00 – 8:45 am Continental breakfast


8:45 – 9:00 am Introduction by Colin Bennett (University of Victoria)


9:00 – 10:30 Panel (A): The Local Challenges to Privacy and Civil Liberties


Panel Chair: Colin Bennett, University of Victoria

(1) Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada (via videoconference)

(2) David Loukidelis, Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia

(3) Micheal Vonn, Policy Director, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA)

(4) Christopher Shaw (UBC) and Alissa Westergard-Thorpe: Short and long-term impacts of surveillance and other security preparations for mega-events on civil liberties

Coffee break 10:30-11.00 am

11:00 - 12:15 Panel (B): Historical Legacies


Panel Chair: TBA

(1) Vida Bajc: Munich 1972: In the Shadows of Berlin 1936 and the Spotlight of Global Terrorism

(2) Daniel Bernhard and Aaron Martin (London School of Economics): The ‘Olympic Difference’: securitization expressions of mega-events as a pathway to first-class global citizenship

Lunch 12:15 – 1:15 pm (on site)

1:15 - 2:45 Panel (C): Policing and Surveillance


Panel Chair: Kevin Haggerty, University of Alberta

(1) Gary Marx (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Patrick Gillham (Idaho) and John Noakes (Arcadia University): Complexity and Irony in Policing Mega-events

(2) Rosamunde van Brakel (University of Sheffield): Citizen Spies at mega-events: surveillance, suspiciousness, and normalization

(3) Mark Salter and Phillipe Frowd (University of Ottawa): Feeling the Stare: Emotional Resistance to Rhizomatic Surveillance in Public Ritual

Coffee break 2:45-3:15

3:15 - 4:30 Panel (D): The Urban Space


Panel Chair: David Murakami Wood, Queen's University

(1) Stephanie Baasch (Otto-von-Guericke): Event Driven Policies and Spatial Control: The World Cup 2006 in Hamburg

(2) Anke Hagemann (ETH Zurich): From Stadium to Fanzone: Host Cities in a State of Emergency

4:30 Closing remarks

7:00 pm Dinner – Water Street Café, 300 Water Street

Day Two: Saturday, November 21


Location: Earl and Jennie Lohn Policy Room 7000 at the SFU Harbour Centre

8:00 – 8:45 am Continental breakfast

8:45 am Introduction and logistical updates

9:00 - 10:30 Panel (E): Cases of Security and Securitization


Panel Chair: David Lyon, Queen's University

(1) Eick Volker (Freie Universitat Berlin): The FIFA: From the Estadio Nacional to the Fan Mile World Cups as Neoliberal Sports Events

(2) Chiara Fonio (Universita Catttolica Sacro Cuoro, Milan) and Giovanni Pisapia (Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department): The XX Winter Olympic Games: Torino 2006

(3) Minas Samatas (University of Crete): Surveilling Athens 2004 Olympics under the exploitation of 9/11 impact : A critical overview of troubles and scandals

Coffee break 10:30 – 11.00 am

11:00 - 12:30 Panel (F): Cases of Security and Securitization continued


Panel Chair: Laureen Snider, Queen's University

(1) Francisco Klauser (Durham University): Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World
Cup 2006 in Germany

(2) Pete Fussey (University of East London) and Jon Coaffee (University of Birmingham): Olympic Rings of Steel: Constructing security for 2012 and beyond

(3) David Murakami Wood (Queen's University) and Kiyoshi Abe (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan): The Spectacle of Fear: Anxious Events and Foreign Threats in Japan

Lunch – 12:30 – 1:30 (on site)

1:30 - 3:00 Panel (G): Security and Surveillance in Vancouver 2010


Panel Chair: Andrew Clement, University of Toronto

(1) Adam Molnar (University of Victoria)/Laureen Snider (Queen's University): Surveillance, Capital and the Mega-Event

(2) Phil Boyle (University of Alberta): Mobilizing Knowledge: The Olympics and Security Knowledge Networks

(3) Martin French (University of Toronto): Gaming the State of Exception: V2010 ISU Interprets the Fair Information Principles

Coffee break 3:00-3:30

3:30 - 4:30 Closing Summaries

(1) David Lyon (Queen's University)
(2) Kevin Haggerty (University of Alberta)

5:00 – Walking tour of Video Surveillance in Downtown Vancouver

led by students from SFU’s Department of Communication, followed by a reception for Surveilling Public Space: Perspectives on Spectacle at the Interurban Gallery, 1 East Hastings Street.