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 . Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...

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... 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...

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... Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...