News and Events

  1. Canadian Review of Sociology

    Special Issue: Surveillance and Security

    Guest Editors: David Lyon, David Murakami Wood (Queen's University)

  2. The solstice is past and in the northern hemisphere things are brightening from today. It may be chilly in most parts of Canada, which is all the more reason for sending warmest wishes to all involved in the Surveillance Studies Centre.

  3. The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2010 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. This is a one year term position with the possibility of renewal.

  4. The Surveillance Studies network is now accepting nominations for its second annual book prize, recognizing the world’s best English language scholarly book published on the topic of surveillance in the past year.

  5. Royal Geographical Society-Insitute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, Edinburgh UK, 3-5th July 2012. Sponsored by the Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society

  6. co-edited by Aaron Doyle (Carleton), Randy Lippert (Windsor) and David Lyon (Queen's).

  7. The Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University has a vacancy for a Postdoc / senior researcher (2 yrs, full time). Closing Date for applications: 15 January 2012

  8. One PhD stipend, funded through grants received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and beginning in September 2012, is available in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

  9. The New Transparency research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

  10. ISA Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4 2012. As usual, there will be a session on surveillance within the Research Committee 23 on the Sociology of Science and Technology. Abstract deadline is 15 December 2011.

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