SSC Seminar Series

SSC Virtual Seminar: David Eliot and David Murakami Wood, Surveillance Studies Centre

Minding the FloCs: Alphabet’s AI-first strategy and transformations in surveillance capitalism

Seminar recording available here.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Alana Saulnier, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities

Seminar recording available here

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe by Monday, September 27, 2021.

Abstract:
As new...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Research Roundup

Research Roundup

Wednesday, September 15, 2021
1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Online

The aim of the SSC Research Round-up is to give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update each other on recent and ongoing research as it relates to surveillance studies. Please come prepared to discuss your current work!

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Meeting ID: 991...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Norma Möllers, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

Justice in AI, or why it’s not enough to fix the data or fix the algorithm

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz by Sunday, April 11,...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Sean Patrick Marrs, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Queen's University, Canada

Police espionage in eighteenth-century Paris: A historical look at surveillance

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

12:30 – 1:30 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.
 
Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz by Sunday, April 4, 2021.

Abstract:

Since its foundation in 1667, a...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Book Launch: David Lyon and David Murakami Wood, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University

Book Launch: Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence:
The Canadian Case
Edited by David Lyon and David Murakami Wood
UBC Press, December 2020

Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence: The Canadian Case

For more information about the book, see here.

 

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

12:30 – 1:30 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform,...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Daniel E. Bromberg, University of New Hampshire, and Étienne Charbonneau, École nationale d’administration publique, Montréal

The Fragile Relationship between Police Departments and Civilians in an Age of Video Surveillance

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

12:30 – 1:30 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.
 
Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz by Sunday, March 14, 2021.

Abstract:

Our book...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Rafael Evangelista, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and Rodrigo Firmino, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil

Pandemic Technopolitics in the Global South

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.
 
Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz by Sunday, December 6, 2020.

Abstract:

Brazil has been standing out as one of the worst...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, University of Ottawa

Canada's New Bill to Reform Private Sector Data Protection

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm *Note new time

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.
 
Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz.

Abstract:

The much-awaited bill to reform Canada's private sector data...

SSC Virtual Seminar: Kate Robertson, Cynthia Khoo, and Yolanda Song, The Citizen Lab

Algorithmic Policing and Surveillance in Canada: The Defining Role of Reliability, Necessity, and Proportionality in 21st Century Oversight

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

12:30 – 1:30 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.
 
Please RSVP to Delano Aragao Vaz by Sunday, November 8, 2020.

Abstract:

New...

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