SURVEILLANCE PROJECT NEWS Feb 2006
1. "Moving Targets": Politics of/at the airport
Canadian Aviation Security Workshop
Registration deadline: MARCH 4
Hotel reservation deadline: FEBRUARY 28
29 - 30 March 2006
Brookstreet Hotel
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Assembling a range of experts from Canada, Europe, and America, this
unique workshop on aviation security examines issues of security,
space, privacy, and mobility within the context of technology,
governance, and terrorism.
Registration includes full participation in “Leading Change: Aviation
Security Today and Tomorrow,” a professional conference of experts,
policy-makers, and industry representatives sponsored by the Canadian
Air Transport Security Authority, Transport Canada, and the Canadian
Advanced Technology Alliance. Admission to plenary sessions,
exhibition, and meals are also included. An optional behind-the-scenes
tour of the Ottawa airport will take place on March 28 in conjunction
with the workshop.
For more information and to download the registration form, please
visit http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/?q=node/27
2. New book title: Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond.
Edited by David Lyon.
Forthcoming from Willan Publishing, May 2006
This book is a result of the papers presented at the SP workshop of the
same name, held May 2005, and is about explaining surveillance
processes and practices in contemporary society. Surveillance studies
is a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise that aims to
understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and
sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and
with what effects. This book brings together some of the world's
leading surveillance scholars to discuss the "why" question. The field
has been dominated, since the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault,
by the idea of the panopticon and this book explores why this metaphor
has been central to discussions of surveillance, what is fruitful in
the panoptic approach, and what other possible approaches can throw
better light on the phenomena in question.
To review the table of contents and to order, please visit
http://www.willanpublishing.co.uk
3. Surveillance Project Summer Seminar June 2007
Plan now to attend a two-week seminar program for graduate students,
post-docs and junior faculty. The SP summer seminar will address key
issues of surveillance studies, in a multi-disciplinary fashion, and in
ways that will enhance the participants’ own research projects as well
as provide a unique national and international networking opportunity.
Local and visiting faculty will lead sessions exploring a variety of
theoretical, methodological, and political aspects of surveillance
studies.
A registration fee will be assessed to each participant. Participants
will stay at Leggett Hall on Queen’s University campus (additional fee
for room and board). Participants can look forward to field trips as
well as a program of evening events including movie and pub nights, and
optional weekend excursions.
Visit the SP website for updates as the summer seminar takes shape.
Joan Sharpe
Project Manager, The Surveillance Project
c/o Department of Sociology
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
(613) 533-6000, ext. 78867
(613) 533-6499 FAX
**Check out the NEW SP website**
http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance
Joan Sharpe
Project Manager, The Surveillance Project
c/o Department of Sociology
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
(613) 533-6000, ext. 78867
(613) 533-6499 FAX
**Check out the NEW SP website**
http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance
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