Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to announce a call for contributions to a joint Dialogue Section-Art Forum of Surveillance & Society we are calling “Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures.” Storytelling has the ability to capture the imagination and to attract a…
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Call for Dialogue: Terrorism, White Supremacy, State Surveillance
Dear Colleagues, as the Dialogue Editor of Surveillance & Society, I invite expressions of interest to write short (~2000-word) papers for an upcoming Dialogue section of the journal focused on the interrelated topics of “Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance.”…
New MA in Surveillance Studies in Rotterdam
We are proud to introduce our new Master Programme entitled “Digitalisation, Surveillance & Societies”, starting next academic year (2021-2022) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. While digitalisation brings many opportunities, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and social media platforms…
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Winner SSN 2020 Book Award
The SSN Book Award Committee is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020 SSN Book Award is: Insurgent Aesthetics. Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke UP) by Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia, Associate Professor in…
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Call: Dialogues on Surveillance and Covid-19
As the Dialogue Editor of Surveillance & Society, I invite expressions of interest to write short (~2000-word) papers for an upcoming critical Dialogue section of the journal that takes stock of “the surveillance and privacy implications of COVID-19 one year on…
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SSN Small Research Grant, ext. deadline
SSN is happy to announce that the next funding round for small research grants is now open, with a December 1 deadline for applications. See https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcement/view/299 for the full CFP (ignore the earlier deadline noted in that post). The text is also presented…
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Statement of Solidarity
Dear Surveillance Studies Community, In this moment of international reckoning with legacies of anti-Black and settler colonialisms, we stand in solidarity with those protesting police violence, racial capitalism, and white supremacy. And we recognize that the embodied stresses, strains, and…
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Call for Creative Submissions
Surveillance & Society has two new sections dedicated to artistic engagements with surveillance. Both “Artistic Presentations” and “Art Review” seek to highlight the ways in which broadly defined notions of creative practices not only reflect, but also produce, modes of thinking…
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Call for Nominations: SSN Book Award: 2020
The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding monograph on surveillance published during the preceding year. We are currently inviting nominations for 2020…
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Call for Chapters: Power, Media, and Covid 19
Power, Media, and the Covid 19 Pandemic: framing public discourse Edited by Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher (Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University, UK) Deadline – 20th May 2020: Send Name, Title, Affiliation, followed by a 300-word Abstract (as an…
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- SSC Virtual Seminar: Book Launch: David Lyon and David Murakami Wood, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University March 1, 2021
- SSC Virtual Seminar: Daniel E. Bromberg, University of New Hampshire, and Étienne Charbonneau, École nationale d’administration publique, Montréal March 1, 2021
- SSC Virtual Seminar: Norma Möllers, Department of Sociology, Queen's University March 1, 2021
