SSC Seminar Series

Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411

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Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411

12:30- 2:00 pm

Yasuhiko Tajima
Surveillance and Human Rights in Japan
Yasuhiko Tajima, Professor of Media Law, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan in conversation with Midori Ogasawara, PhD candidate, Sociology, Queen’s University

In January 2016, Japan implemented a new national identification system that collects personal data on each citizen with a unique number. Though this system... Read more about @title...

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Mac-Corry E202, Jeffery 234 12.30-2pm

Militarized Surveillance and Palestinian Childhood

Through an examination of the trapped condition of colonized childhood in historic Palestine, the presentation conceptualizes Palestinian childhood within a settler colonial framework and considers the particular and distinctly territorialized, spatial, and biopolitical relationships between state criminality and Palestinian childhood. The talk traces the ongoing targeting of Palestinian childhood... 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... 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... 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... 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 ... 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...