SSC Seminar Series

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... Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...

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... Read more about @title...

Jeffrey Monaghan, PhD candidate
Dept of Sociology, Queen's University

Terror Carceralism: Surveillance and Punishment of Terror Convicts in Canada

Wednesday, January 25
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry D411

The Canadian government has convicted 15 individuals for terrorism offences under criminal provisions introduced in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act. Consequently, Canadian penal authorities have developed numerous surveillance and security practices to target this new –... Read more about @title...

Michel Doiron
Senior Review Officer
Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner (Ottawa, Ontario)

“The National Security Apparatus in Canada from 1945 to the Present: Legal Framework, Changes, Challenges and Accountability Mechanisms”

Wednesday, January 11
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Mac-Corry D209 NEW LOCATION

Since the revelations of a Soviet cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko in 1945, the national security apparatus... Read more about @title...

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

George Lovell (Professor, Department of Geography, Queen's University)


The Archive That Never Was: State Terror and Historical Memory in Guatemala

Between 1961 and 1996, armed conflict in Guatemala, according to the findings of a United Nations Truth Commission, claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, many of them the targets... Read more about @title...

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

Jianjun Liu (PhD, visiting from the Faculty of Law, Shandong University of Political Science and Law)

An Introduction to the Laws on Public Video Surveillance (PVS) in the People’s Republic of China (Mainland)

In the context of ‘Comprehensive Governance of Public Order and Security’ specifically based on the Safe City... Read more about @title...

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

Kiyoshi Abe (Professor, visiting from the Graduate School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University)

De/Reconstructing Surveillance Studies? Comparative views of the Sapporo Olympics in 1972

In this presentation I will clarify the significance of comparative research in surveillance studies in three dimensions. Firstly, it is indispensable to engage in international comparative research so that we... Read more about @title...

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

Francesca Menichelli (PhD candidate, visiting from the Department of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca)

Opening the Black Box of Video Surveillance

In the literature, open street CCTV is traditionally analyzed in two related ways. At the macro level, its diffusion is framed within a shift towards neoliberal urbanism. At the micro level, the day-to-day reality... Read more about @title...

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

David Wall (Professor, Department of Criminology, Durham University)

Surveillant Network Technologies and the Organization of Cybercrime

In recent years a number of changes have occurred in the cybercrime threat landscape which constitute a step change in the level of danger posed by cybercrimes to individual, organisational and national security. These changes largely arise... Read more about @title...