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Intersectional Approaches to Surveillance Research Workshop

Workshop dates: 11-13 June 2015, Queen’s University (Donald Gordon Centre), Kingston, ON, Canada

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2015

This workshop strives to bring intersectionality to the forefront of surveillance studies. As surveillance studies becomes increasingly multidisciplinary and post-structural, a thought-provoking frontier for surveillance scholars is to critically focus on the ways in which identity-based discrimination can impact surveillance processes and lived...

The Politics of Surveillance: Advancing Democracy in a Surveillance Society

The Politics of Surveillance: Advancing Democracy in a Surveillance Society

Universityof Ottawa

Ottawa,ON – May 8-10, 2014

EventSponsor: The New Transparency, a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative
EventHost:University of Ottawa

Thoughcivil society advocates, politicians and surveillance scholars have beendebating the issue for years, the revelations of Edward Snowden have broughtpublic attention to a powerful yet questionableinternational surveillance apparatus.The extraordinary growth of...

Doing Surveillance Studies: Critical Approaches to Methods and Pedagogy

The Donald Gordon Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
May 30th – June 1st, 2013

Presented by
The New Transparency, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Major Collaborative Research Initiative www.newtransparency.org

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

As the study of surveillance expands and a growing number of voices take up calls in the field for more research, greater public awareness,...

Call for Papers: The Politics of Surveillance, May 8-10, 2014

Universityof Ottawa

The organizers are seeking written paper contributionsfrom scholars and activists who are working in areas closely related to thequestion of how thegovernmental and corporate surveillance might best bechallenged, regulated, resisted or reversed. Abstracts due 10 January 2014 .

EventSponsor: The New Transparency , a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative EventHost:University of Ottawa Thoughcivil society advocates,...