SSC Seminar Series

SSC Seminar Series: Ariel Salzmann

SSC Seminar Series:
Ariel Salzmann, PhD, Department of History, Queen's University

The Iberian Labyrinth: identity and inquisition in the making of an early modern deportation state (1391- 1613)

Mac-Corry Hall, Room D411 (Sociology Lounge)

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Distinctive among Western polities, the Iberian state forcibly assimilated many of its Jewish and Muslim subjects. Ambiguous identities, however, created a unique dilemma not only for...

SSC Seminar Series: Shoshana Magnet and Corinne Mason

SSC Seminar Series:
Shoshana Magnet, PhD, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa
and
Corinne Mason, PhD Candidate, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa

Feminist Surveillance Studies and New Orientalist Articulations



24 October, Mac-Corry hall, D411 (Sociology Lounge)

12:30 - 2:00 pm

This presentation draws on the theoretical framework of feminist surveillance studies to provide a critical response to a 2008 United States...

CANCELLED SSC Seminar Series: Bill Staples

CANCELLED Bill Staples, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas



Documenting the Body; Creating the Self: governance and the modern birth certificate


MacCorry Room D411 (Sociology lounge)

CANCELLED

Staples argues that the deployment of the birth certificate is a practice centered on the regulation of bodies, the government of conduct, and the formation of the self. An examination of this form of identification offers...

SSC Seminar Series: Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, MIT

Mac-Corry Hall, Room D207 NEW

Queen's University

12:30 - 2:00pm

Windows into the Soul: surveillance and society



Gary T. Marx will offer an overview of his recently completed book, which suggests a conceptual framework for analyzing the structure, means and goals of surveillance and the attributes of types of personal information. Basic contexts of surveillance involving coercion, contracts, care and "public" and information...

SSC Seminar Series: Rafael Barreto de Castro

Mac-Corry Hall D-411 (Sociology Lounge)

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Security Dispositifs: government performances articulated to video cameras in Rio de Janeiro

The main objective of Barreto de Castro's study is to make a socio-technical analysis of the forms of government in their relations with video surveillance, especially regarding its practices in the Operation Centre of Rio de Janeiro (for civil contingencies) and in...

SSC Seminar Series: Ian Warren, Deakin University

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D411

12:30pm to 2pm

Zonal Regulation, Surveillance and Public (Re-)Ordering

Ian Warren
PhD
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Deakin University

Wednesday, September 19

This presentation examines the administrative powers enabling Australian police and private security agents to ban disorderly or violent people from designated urban business and entertainment zones. These approaches to securitization are slowly reconfiguring the idea of...

SSC Seminar Series: Research Roundup

Mac-Corry Room D-411 (Sociology Lounge)
12:30 - 2:00 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...

SSC Seminar Series: Laureen Snider

Laureen Snider, Professor emeritus
Sociology, Queen's University
Co-investigator, The New Transparency

Surveillance, Stock Markets and Everyday Life

Wednesday, April 4
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University

This presentation examines the transformation of stock market trading through surveillance technologies and the theoretical, cultural and political effects of this transition. Market trading today is conducted via algorithms through banks of computers...

SSC Seminar Series: Harrison Smith

Harrison Smith, PhD candidate
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Surveillance and Prosperity Partnerships: An Examination of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, 2005-2009

Wednesday, March 7
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University

Prosperity partnerships have become instrumental networks for the continued development of border surveillance and screening measures, effectively allowing neoliberal business interests to influence...

SSC Seminar Series: Lucas Melgaço

Lucas Melgaço, PhD
Visiting post-doctoral fellow, SSC

Students under control: rationalization of educational spaces through surveillance practices

Wednesday, February 8
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry Room D411, Queen's University

Several educational institutions, from kindergartens to universities and from different geographical contexts, are experiencing an increase in surveillance practices. CCTV cameras, ID cards, integrated databases, email data collection, internet tracking, audits and performance evaluations...

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