SSC 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(link sends e-mail).

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(link sends e-mail).

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(link sends e-mail).

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(link is external).

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(link is external).

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(link is external)

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,...

Book Launch: Krys Maki, Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance

Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance

By Krys Maki

 

Virtual book launch

December 15, 2021

6:30-7:30pm EST

 

Hosted by Fernwood Publishing, Novel Idea, the Department of Sociology and the Surveillance Studies Centre

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-ineligible-single-mothers-under-welfare-surveillance-tickets-217024164117(link is external)

Krys Maki(link is external), PhD (They/Them pronouns), is a Researcher and Consultant, and Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance(link is external) is based on their PhD research on welfare surveillance. The book...

SSC Virtual Seminar Series: Tommy Cooke, Research Fellow, Surveillance Studies Centre, and Dan Cohen, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University

Big Data Exposed: GNSS & the Quest for Accuracy in the Digital City

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Seminar recording available here(link is external)

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

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe(link sends e-mail).

Abstract:
We present Big Data Exposed (BDE), a sub-project of A Day in the Life of Metadata(link is external)...

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(link sends e-mail)

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: 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(link is external)

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

Please RSVP to Joan Sharpe(link sends e-mail) 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...

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