SSC Seminar Series

The Provincial Information and Security System in Istanbul

Alanur Çavlin Bozbeyoğlu

Post-Doctoral Fellow
The Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University

Thursday, November 18th, 2010
12:30 - 13:30pm
Mac-Corry Hall, Room D-411

Camera surveillance is becoming a usual part of everyday life in Turkey. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras became visible initially in the private sphere primarily in banks, retail stores, and shopping malls starting in... Read more about @title...

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...

Patrick Derby

PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
Queen’s University

Automatic Licence Plate Recognition:

Explorations of an Emerging Police Checkpoint Technology

Thursday, March 18th
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D-411

On one hand, the automobile represents freedom and escape. On the other hand, the automobile and... Read more about @title...

Patrick O’Byrne

Assistant Professor

School of Nursing

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Public Health STI/HIV Surveillance: Exploring the Society of Control

Thursday, March 4th

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D-411

While Foucault asserted that the sovereign style of rule had disappeared, instead replaced by a disciplinary... Read more about @title...

Krystle Maki, PhD Candidate

Department of Sociology

Queen’s University

Under the Watchful Eye of Ontario Works:

Surveillance and Welfare Recipients

Thursday, February 18^th

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D-411

The paper explores the dramatic increase of surveillance mechanisms currently used in social services in Ontario Canada. In the last two decades welfare administration has undergone adramatic transformation in most Western democracies. Manyjurisdictions... Read more about @title...

Thursday, January 28 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Chernoff Hall, Room 213

Irus Braverman

Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography

University of Buffalo

State University of New York

Civilized Borders: A Study of Israel’s New Crossing Administration

Joint presentation with

Elia Zureik

Professor Emeritus

Department of Sociology, Queen’s University

Colonialism as Surveillance: The Case of Israel/Palestine

Everyone welcome!... Read more about @title...

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...