Workshop Program
Please note program is subject to change.
The academic workshop will be held at the Queen’s University Donald Gordon Conference Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
September 8, 2011
9 am -- Introduction
9:10 am Keynote Speech by David Lyon, author of Surveillance after September 11 (Polity Press, 2003) and The New Transparency principal investigator
9:45-10:00 am Coffee break
10 am to noon – Panel 1: Government Control over Information Flows
Chair/Moderator: Kevin Haggerty, University of Alberta
- Arthur J. Cockfield, Queen’s University: ‘Surveillance as Law’
- Torin Monahan, Vanderbilt University and Pris Regan, George Mason University: ‘Centers of Concatenation: Fusing Data in Post-9/11 Security Organizations’
- David Murakami Wood, Queen’s University: ‘The Dilemma of Open Networks: Open-source Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Cyber-threats’
- Poster session: Ozgun Topak, Queen’s University: ‘A Genealogical Analysis of the E-bordering Practices in the EU’
12:00 to 1:00 pm – Lunch at Donald Gordon Centre
1 pm to 2:30 pm – Panel 2: Watching Borders
Chair/moderator: Colin Bennett, University of Victoria
- Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta, and Abigail Bakan, Queen’s University: ‘After 9/11: Canada, the Israel/Palestine Conflict and the Surveillance of Public Space’
- Alanur Çavlin Bozbeyoğlu, Queen’s University, and Ayça Tomaç, Gender Studies Department, Queen’s University: ‘Surveillance
of the Borders: The Gaze on Veiled Muslim Women Bodies’
- Dean Wilson, School of Law, University of Plymouth: ‘UK Local Immigration Policing: Surveillance and Securitization at the Internal Border’
- Poster session: Harrison Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto: ‘Mapping the Surveillance Net: The Political Economy of North American Border Securitization’
2:30 to 3:00 pm – Coffee break
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm – Panel 3: Constructing the War on Terror
Chair/moderator: Elia Zureik, Queen's University
- David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield: ‘Towards a theory of Security,
Language and Surveillance’
- Andre Mondoux and Pierre-Olivier Zappa, University of Quebec a Montreal: ‘We’re All in this Together: When Surveillance Pervades Society’
- Poster session: Mary Jane Kwok Choon, l'Université du Québec à Montréal: 'An analysis of the self-disclosure practices of PILS (Prévention Information Lutte contre le Sida) volunteers on Facebook : Between the subversion of sexual norms and the soft interiorization of surveillance in a post 9/11 setting'
- Poster session: Alejandro Vélez Salas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona: ‘The Metaphoric Universalization of “Terror” Since 9-11’
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm: "Privacy Priorities" discussion with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC). Workshop participants are invited to share their perspectives with the OPC on the “hot” privacy priorities such as anti-money laundering (AML), surveillance, border security, lawful access, and intelligence oversight.
5:30 - 6:30 pm Cocktail reception at Donald Gordon Centre (Front rooms, Old House)
6:30 pm – Buffet dinner at Donald Gordon Centre
September 9, 2011
9:00 am to 10:30 am – Panel 4: Shaping Identity
Chair/moderator: Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa
- Brenda McPhail, Christopher Parsons, Joseph Ferenbok, Karen Smith and Andrew Clement, University of Toronto: 'Identifying Canadians
at the Border: The 9/11 legacy'
- Ian Tucker,
University of East London: ‘Cybersurveillance
technologies and everyday life’
- Chiara Fonio, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan): ‘Ethnic Profiling in the European
Union since 9/11’
- Poster
session: Joseph Ferenbok, University of Toronto: ‘Picturing Faces as Personal Data: a 9/11 legacy’
10:30
to 11:00 am – Coffee break
11:00 am to 12:30 pm – Panel 5:
Watching Large Gatherings
Chair/Moderator: Val Steeves, University of Ottawa
- Kate Milberry and Andrew Clement, University of Toronto: ‘Public Surveillance, (in-)security and spectacle
at the Toronto G20’
- Jeff Monaghan, Queen's University
and Kevin Walby, University of Victoria: ‘Making up ‘Terror Identities’: Security Intelligence,
Canada’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, and Social Movement Suppression’
- Pete Fussey,
University of Essex: ‘Pure
Vision? Architectures of counter-terrorism surveillance in the UK’
- Poster
session: Shannon Speed, Queen’s University: ‘Accepting Infringement: how the
war-on-terror has kept us afraid of "others"’
12:30 to 1:30 pm – Lunch at Donald Gordon Centre
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm – Panel 6: Trust in Our Governments
Chair/moderator: Lisa Dufraimont, Faculty of Law, Queen's University
- Lisa Austin, University of Toronto: ‘Getting Past Privacy? Surveillance, the Charter
and the Rule of Law’
- Darren Ellis, University of East London: ‘Trust and the Affects of Surveillance’
- Kirstie Ball, Ana Canhoto, Elizabeth Daniel, Sally Dibb, Maureen
Meadows, Keith Spiller, Open University Business School and Oxford
Brookes University Business School: ‘It’s just a government thing’:
Surveillance and
the front line service worker’
- Sunny Skye
Hughes, University of Maine: ‘U.S. Domestic Surveillance after 9/11: An
analysis of the chilling effect on First Amendment rights in cases filed
against the Terrorist Surveillance Program’
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee break
4:00 - 5:00 pm New Transparency Team Meeting
5:00 - 6:30 pm Coach House Pub social
6:30 pm – Dinner at Donald Gordon Centre
September 10, 2011
10:30 am New Transparency Executive Meeting
12:15 - 2:30 pm 1000 Islands Boat Cruise and lunch
Boarding time is 12:45 pm; sailing time is at 1:00 pm. The cruise lasts 1.5 hours and includes a buffet lunch. The cruise departs from 1 Brock Street (dock is just beyond intersection of Ontario and Brock Streets). You may either make your own way to the dock before departure or meet in the lobby of the Donald Gordon Centre at 12:15 pm if you wish to depart from the Donald Gordon Centre.
