SSC Seminar Series

Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411

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Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411D216

12:30- 2:00 pm

Prying Open the Black Box: What Hello Barbie Can Tell Us About Behavioural Advertising

This talk unpacks the development of Barbie from toy to website to robot, and analyzes the privacy implications of embedding corporate data collection into a child’s imagination through real-time conversations with artificial intelligence software.

Everyone welcome!

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Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411
12:30- 2:00 pm

The surveilled subject’s experience: Looking for consistencies

Surveillance studies has been somewhat inattentive to the perspective of the surveilled subject. It is the functioning of the surveillance apparatus, not the relatively inconsequential subject, which has tended to frame the focus of surveillance inquiries; leaving understandings of surveilled subjects’ experiences relatively limited. This research... Read more about @title...

Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411
12:30- 2:00 pm

Smart City, Surveillance City: human flourishing in a data-driven urban world

David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies

‘Smart cities’ are characterized by pervasive and distributed sensor networks generating big data for forms of centralized urban management, drawing together such previously unconnected infrastructural systems as video surveillance, meteorological stations, traffic... Read more about @title...

Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411

12:30- 2:00 pm

Surveillance technology and neoliberal technoscience

Norma Möllers

Assistant Professor, Queen's University

What happens when governments enroll scientists to contribute to proliferating surveillance? Based on an ethnographic study of the development of an automated CCTV system, I will talk about the sometimes quite creative ways in which scientists may push back, and how this is tied to... Read more about @title...

Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411

12:30- 2:00 pm

“The future of terrorism?”: Radicalization theories and Muslim Profiling

Jeffrey Monaghan,Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, and
Adam Molnar,Department of Criminology, Deakin University, Australia

Examining Canadian counter-terrorism training programs, this talk details how the search for radicalization indicators reaffirms preemptive and discriminatory policing practices. While academic theories of radicalization and national security officials insist indicators-based... Read more about @title...

Location: Stirling Hall 414
12:30 - 2pm

A Dance with the Death Dossier: Complexities and Forensic Identifications of the Guatemalan Military Diary

Fredy Peccerelli, Director, Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG), and Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecturer, and George Lovell, Department of Geography, Queen's University

The Death Squad Dossier was founded in 1999, but the intricacies hidden within the codes were not clarified until... Read more about @title...

Don Aldridge, Executive Director, HPCVL and Senior Advisor Advanced Computing & Data Analytics, Office of the VP (Research), Queen’s University

Mac-Corry D411, 12.30-2pm

Advances in Analytics

Don Aldridge will be providing an overview of two emerging analytics technologies, specifically streaming analytics (with a specific application in healthcare), and “cognitive computing” (a.k.a. IBM Watson).

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Research Round-up
Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

12:30 - 1:30

The aim of this meeting is to give everyone the opportunity to welcome new and returning students, staff and faculty and update each other on recent and ongoing research as it relates to surveillance studies. Please come prepared to discuss your current work. Pizza provided!

Kindly R.S.V.P. to Joan Sharpe (surveill... Read more about @title...

Manu Luksch, Intermedia Artist, Founding Director of ambientTV.NET

A seminar presentation: Seeing over Distance, Wednesday, March 4, 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Already at the dawn of the electric age, the invention of the telephone had unleashed fantasies of seeing over distance. Archival films from over a hundred years ago provide a glimpse into the public imagination, the desires and anxieties... Read more about @title...