News Archive: 2015

Surveillance Studies PhDs Sought

Two Scholarships at the PhD level ( starting September 2016 ) are available in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on “Big Data Surveillance” under the supervision of David Lyon and/or David Murakami Wood . The project is a multi-disciplinary and comparative analysis of the development and impact of big data analytics in many domains: security, consumer, health, welfare, electoral, intelligence, employment and others.The project is coordinated through the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University.

Congratulations to David Lyon - SSHRC Insight Award Winner 2015

SSHRC’s Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an individual or team whose project has made a significant contribution to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.

Edward Snowden speaking at Queen's

On Thursday November 12th , the Queen’s International Affairs Association (QIAA) is presenting Edward Snowden as keynote speaker for the Queen’s Model United Nations Invitational.

The talk runs from 6:30 pm to 8pm – doors open at 6pm – with a 45 minute keynote address by Snowden about the changing nature of surveillance and current state of espionage, followed by a 35 minute question period moderated by Dr. David Lyon of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s .

Two PhD Scholarships Available - UVic

Two Postgraduate Scholarships at the PhD level (beginning September 2016) are available in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on “Big Data Surveillance” under the supervision of Dr. Colin Bennett.

SSC awarded $2.5 million SSHRC grant

Queen’s University professor and Surveillance Studies Centre director David Lyon (Sociology) has been awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his research into the vulnerabilities generated by big data surveillance.

SSC Special Guest Speaker: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

'Militarized Surveillance and Palestinian Childhood'

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 12:30-2:00pm

Jeffrey 234

Through an examination of the trapped condition of...

New book: Surveillance After Snowden

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of ’security’.

In this compelling account, surveillance expert David Lyon guides the reader through Snowden’s ongoing disclosures: the technological shifts involved, the steady rise of...

The New Transparency - Final Report

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

Call for Papers

States of Surveillance: New Directions and Empirical Projects

Fall Symposium, October 1st and 2nd, 2015

Keynote Speaker : Dr. Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and Andrew Carnegie Fellow awardee

Hosted by the Surveillance Studies Research Center The Institute for Policy & Social...

New book: The Private Security State?

Congratulations to Kirstie Ball, Ana Canhoto, Elizabeth Daniel, Sally Dibb, Maureen Meadows and Keith Spiller, on the publication of The Private Security State? Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror (Copenhagen Business School Press, March 2015). Available here

The Private Security State? Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror Copenhagen Business...

15 March Screening: The Secret Trial 5

What: Screening of The Secret Trial 5

When: Sunday 15 March, 4pm AND 7pm

Where: The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street, 2nd fl., Kingston, ON

Cost: $10 adult admission, cash only

Who: Special guest Sharry Aiken, Faculty of Law, Queen's University. The filmmakers will also...

#AskSnowden

Time: 12-2 p.m, March 4 2015

Where: RCC 103, Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson University, 80 Gould Street, Toronto

Join Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) for a discussion about the state of mass surveillance in Canada, featuring a live Q&A with Edward Snowden. Whistleblower, former NSA contractor, and subject of the Oscar-winning...

CFP: Intersectional Approaches to Surveillance

Workshop dates: 11-13 June 2015, Queen’s University (Donald Gordon Centre), Kingston, ON, Canada

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1st March 16, 2015

This workshop strives to bring intersectionality to the forefront of surveillance studies. As surveillance studies becomes increasingly multidisciplinary and post-structural, a thought-provoking frontier for surveillance scholars is to critically focus on the ways in which identity-based discrimination...

Citizenfour Film Screening

Special screening: Monday January 26 @ 7pm

You are invited to a special screening in Kingston of the new documentary about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour , followed by a guest talk by David Lyon.

The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street (2nd floor)

Monday, January 26, 7pm

Film admission prices are $8 - $9. Cash only.

Regular...

Register today for the next Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar!

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.

Deadline is 27 March 2015.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada June 6 - 14, 2015

“Inspiring” -- 2013 SSSS participant...