Members of the SSC are deeply saddened to learn of Ian Kerr ’s death from cancer on August 26 2019. Ian was a valued colleague, from the University of Ottawa, with whom we collaborated on several major projects. He had a gift for communicating complex ideas in an accessible manner – and a marvelous sense of humour. His... Read more about @title...
The New Transparency: Surveillance as Social Sorting, was a Major Research Collaborative Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada from 2008-2015. For a summary of the past 7 years of research results, see: http://www.sscqueens.org/Project_News Read more about @title...
The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar provides an intensive, multi-disciplinary learning experience that addresses key issues of surveillance studies in ways that enhance the participants' own research projects, as well as providing a unique national and international networking opportunity.
The SSN Annual Book Prize 2014, for the best surveillance studies monograph published in 2013, has been awarded to Oliver Leistert for From Protest to Surveillance: The Political Rationality of Mobile Media (Peter Lang).
The committee’s decision was a unanimous one. Leistert’s work was praised for: “the combination of empirical work with theoretical insight and the... Read more about @title...
Canada’s leading privacy experts unite behind Ottawa Statement, offer high-level proposals to rein in mass surveillance.
Over 35 leading academics and 19 organizations sign on in support of the Ottawa Statement on Mass Surveillance, which sets out what needs to be done to protect Canadians from out-of-control mass surveillance
The Around the World Conference is an experiment that brings together a research dialogue without the environmental cost of traditional conferences. Institutes and researchers are invited to participate either through presenting or by joining... Read more about @title...
A conversation with former CSIS Assistant Director Ray Boisvert , internet law pioneer Michael Geist , world-renowned surveillance scholar David Lyon and BC Civil Liberties Association Policy Director Micheal Vonn , moderated by CBC Radio host Brent Bambury ( Day 6 ). Spur Festival in Toronto, April 3, 7:00pm. See:
