SSC Virtual Seminar Series

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Ronak K. Kapadia, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Reimagine Everything: How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe.

Abstract:

This talk explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter of twenty-first century insurgent rebellion against the dominant militarized policing order...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Carissa Véliz, Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford

Enough is enough: ending the trade in personal data

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

12:30 – 1:30 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe.

Abstract:

Business models that are too toxic for society should not be allowed to thrive. In this talk, I will argue that privacy is power, and that massive losses of...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Luke Stark, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

Artificial Intelligence, Prediction, and the Conjectural Sciences

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe.

Abstract:

In this paper I argue ML-driven science involving certain categories of data is fundamentally “conjectural.” Such “conjectural science” produces conclusions reliant on post-facto interpretation: partial...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series, joint with Department of History at Queen's: Sarah E. Igo, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, USA

Nine Digits: Citizenship, Governance and Data in the Age of the SSN

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Seminar recording is available here.

Abstract:

This talk probes the career of the U.S. Social Security number for what it can tell us about the shifting ways citizens have...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Catherine Stinson, Philosophy and School of Computing, Queen's University

Adversarial Perception in Deep Learning Networks

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Seminar recording available here.

Abstract:

Deep Learning (DL) networks are the current great hope for artificial intelligence. They have achieved impressive feats like approaching or surpassing human performance on image recognition (including facial recognition) and language...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Marco Antônio Sousa Alves, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

New Power Regimes and Forms of Surveillance: The Pandemic as a Laboratory of Power

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here

Abstract:

What are the main features of the new contemporary power regime and the emerging forms of surveillance? I intend to investigate this question following the steps of Michel Foucault, but looking beyond the sovereign,...

SSC Virtual Seminar: David Eliot and David Murakami Wood, Surveillance Studies Centre

Minding the FloCs: Alphabet’s AI-first strategy and transformations in surveillance capitalism

Seminar recording available here.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Sarah Brayne, The University of Texas at Austin

Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe by Monday, November 1, 2021.

Abstract:

Computational procedures increasingly inform how we work, communicate, and make decisions. In this talk, Brayne draws on interviews and...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Alex Luscombe, University of Toronto

COVID-19 and the `Policification` of Public Health Policy in Canada

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe

Abstract:

In the fall of 2019, the world saw the emergence and global spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) capable of causing acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) in...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Alana Saulnier, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities

Seminar recording available here

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

*Due to the limited capacity of the online-meeting platform, we have to adopt a first-come-first-serve principle. We will send the seminar link and password to registered participants.

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe by Monday, September 27, 2021.

Abstract:
As new...