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... Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...

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... 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.

Deadline is 27 March 2015.

“Inspiring” -- 2013 SSSS participant... Read more about @title...

Vol 12, No 4 (2014)

Open Issue

http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/v... Read more about @title...

On the renewal of his Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Surveillance Studies at Queen's University. See: http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/four-new-canada-research-chairs-queens?utm_source=e-queens Read more about @title...

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...

It has been revealed that an ultra-secretive government agency called CSEC is collecting hugely revealing information on thousands of law-abiding Canadians. Taxpayers are on the hook for over $4.2 billion to pay for these invasive spying activities.

Do you want intimate details of your private life to be collected and stored in insecure government databases? Watch the video and... Read more about @title...

Please see the latest Surveillance Studies Centre annual newsletter (August 2014), with stories and photos by team members about research and events at the centre from the past year at: http://www.sscqueens.org/about/newsletters Read more about @title...

in which the worlds of Game Studies and Surveillance Studies collide in an awesome battle for survival (AKA a fruitful collaboration)...

Vol 12, No 3: Surveillance, Gaming and Play edited by Jennifer R.Whitson and Bart Simon

http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/Gaming Read more about @title...