SSC Seminar Series

Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 1:30 pm

Kick off the new SSC Seminar Series at our annual Research Round-up.

This meeting, traditionally the kick-off to the SSC Seminar Series at Queen's University, will give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update others on recent and ongoing research as it relates to the Surveillance... Read more about @title...

Sami Coll
Visiting Research Fellow
Surveillance Studies Centre
Queen’s University

“Consumers Under Surveillance: The Case of Loyalty Cards”

Wednesday, April 20th
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411 D405

This presentation will share some of the results of Coll's research on loyalty cards made in Switzerland. Firstly, it will show how much companies are taking advantage of this wealth of data. By challenging... Read more about @title...

“The Costs of Surveilling Sexual Morality: Sex Work and the State”

** Please note time change to 12:00**

D216 Mac-Corry Hall
Queen's University

Christine Bruckert
Professor
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa

Tuulia Law
MA Candidate
Institute of Women’s Studies
University of Ottawa


Both in its intent and its effect, the surveillance of sex workers does not promote their... Read more about @title...

Ozgun E. Topak
PhD Candidate
Sociology
Queen's University

Wednesday, March 16
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411
** Please note the day change to Wednesday**

E-Bordering the EU: Border is Everywhere

The implementation of the new identification technologies in the European Union such as new database systems and electronic ID cards challenge the conventional understanding of the border... Read more about @title...

Scott Rutherford, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Queen's University

Wednesday, March 2nd
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411
** Please note the day change to Wednesday**

“Surveillance, provocation and the politics of protests in Canada during the 1970s”

By all accounts, Douglas Durham and Warren Hart were unaware of each other’s presence; yet they share a common... Read more about @title...

Gavin Smith, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia; and

Stephanie A Nairn, MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University

Wednesday, February 16th
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411
** Please note the day change to Wednesday**

“Surveillance as Symbolic Resource: On the Representations of Surveillance in the Culture Industries”

This presentation critically analyses... Read more about @title...

“Surveillance and ‘Social Sorting’ at the Canadian Border”

Wednesday, February 2nd
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411
** Please note the day change to Wednesday**

Sharry Aiken
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law
Queen’s University

While Canada has deployed interdiction measures aimed to deter "spontaneous arrivals" at the Canadian border for decades, the government's recent response to the arrival... Read more about @title...

Darren Palmer
Associate Professor
School of History Heritage and Society
Deakin University

Ian Warren
Senior Lecturer
School of History Heritage and Society
Deakin University

"Media, Surveillance and Combating Violence in a Regional Night-Time Economy"

Thursday, November 11th
12:30 pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411

This presentation discusses the intersections between a brutal rape, a regional Australian newspaper's 'outrage' at the... Read more about @title...

Gemma Galdon Clavell

PhD Candidate

Institut de Govern I Politiques Publiques

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

“Surveillance in the global city: local processes, global trends and uncritical policy borrowing (the case of Barcelona)”

Thursday, October 28^th

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411

The talk will address the need to understand surveillance in the broader context of urban policy... Read more about @title...

Databases, Postindustrial Knowledge Work, and Hall's The Raw Shark Texts

N. Katherine Hayles

2010-11 Brockington Visitor
Duke University

Thursday, October 21, 2010
12:30 - 1:30pm
Kingston Hall Room 201

In discussing databases, Alan Liu makes the point that they conform to the requirements of postindustrial knowledge work, namely that it be transformable, automated, and autonomously mobile. This talk explores the implications... Read more about @title...