• 2009.05.19 to 2009.05.25

Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar (SSSS) 2009

Kingston, Ontario, Canada
19 - 23 May 2009

Application Deadline: 13 February 2009


The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar provides an intensive, multi-disciplinary learning experience that addresses key issues of surveillance studies, and in ways that would enhance the participants' own research projects as well as providing a unique national and international networking opportunity.

“International and cross-cultural diversity of the participants is one of the strengths of the seminar. Because surveillance studies are related to social justice, equality, and power, it is crucial to have the perspectives from the world of non-English speaking people.” --2007 SSSS participant

“Quality of faculty and attendees was excellent; social events well planned and spaced; location and setting excellent; well-planned and organized throughout.” --2007 SSSS participant

SELECTED FACULTY:
David Lyon, FRSC, Professor and Queen's Research Chair,
Department of Sociology, and
Director of The Surveillance Project,
Queen's University, Canada

  • 2009.11.20 to 2009.11.21

Surveillance Games Research Workshop

THE SURVEILLANCE GAMES: A RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC.
November 20-21, 2009

Mega-events such as the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and high profile political summits such as the G8 and World Trade Organization meetings have all been identified as primary targets for terrorist attack and have undergone extensive security and surveillance transformations as a result. Mega-events now serve as focal points for security and surveillance proliferation. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes, through which we can observe the complex ways security and surveillance practices are implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional motivations, and public-private security arrangements.

New book on National Identity Cards

Congratulations to Colin Bennett, David Lyon and all the contributors on their new book Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective , now available from Routledge. The book is an edited collection of papers from an international research workshop on national ID card systems organized by The Globalization of Personal Data Project (GPD) in association with the Surveillance Project at Queen's University, Canada on June 7-8 2007.

"National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by focusing on the cards themselves or on 'privacy.'

Public Forum July 16

Public Information Forum on Ontario’s proposed Enhanced Driver’s Licence

SP awarded OPC funds

The Surveillance Project has been awarded research funding of $50,000 from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Ottawa) under its Contributions Program for a project entitled "Camera Surveillance

Have you been targeted?

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group wants to hear from anyone who has been targeted by the U.S.
  • 2008.12.06 to 2008.12.07

States of Exception Research Workshop

States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel/Palestine
December 6 - 7, 2008

Social science research and legal studies of surveillance in Western countries have been on the increase in the last couple of decades, in particular after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. There is, however, a dearth of comparative, empirical research that includes the Middle East. The...

  • 2008.05.09 to 2008.05.10

Test Event

This is a test event on "The New Transparency" website.

NewT Team Meeting

Information on The New Transparency Inaugural Team Meeting at Queen's University 8 - 10 May may be found here.

The New Transparency Inaugural Team Meeting 8 - 10 May 2008 David's Introduction to the New Transparency Project

IRSP 1 presentation: The role of technology companies in promoting surveillance internationally

IRSP 2 presentation: Digital media surveillance:...
  • 2008.03.24

The Union Gallery presents

The Union Gallery presents Monitor, three off-site art projects that engage with the topic of surveillance, March 26th through April 18, 2008.

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