Kingston, Ontario, Canada
29 May- 5 June 2013
Application deadline: 8 February 2013
The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar provides an intensive, multi-disciplinary learning experience that addresses key issues of surveillance studies in ways that enhance the participants' own research projects, as well as providing a unique national and
international networking opportunity.
“[The] people (both student and staff, as well as presenters) were amazing. Variety of disciplines, friendly, interesting and fun” --2011 SSSS participant
“Relaxed and manageable format/schedule. Good international mix of participants” --2011 SSSS participant
CORE FACULTY:
David Lyon, FRSC, Professor and Queen's Research Chair,
Department of Sociology, and
Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre
, Queen's
University, Canada
Kirstie Ball, Reader in Surveillance
and Organisation, The Open University Business School, UK
Valerie Steeves, Associate Professor of Criminology,
University of Ottawa, Canada
David Murakami Wood, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
, Queen's University
THE PROGRAMME:
The core of the seminar is group work, each facilitated by a member of seminar faculty. The idea is to "go behind" conference and book performances to discover how and why surveillance researchers do what they
do. As the study of surveillance expands and a growing number of voices take up calls in the field for more research, greater public awareness, and deeper understandings of surveillance, surveillance scholars are met with the complex and critical question
of how effective surveillance studies can be done.
Participants in the 2013 SSSS also take part in the research workshop
"Doing Surveillance
Studies: Critical Approaches to Methods and Pedagogy" which will be held at the Donald Gordon Centre in Kingston, Ontario from May 30th to June 1st, 2013. This two-day workshop, presented by
The
New Transparency, focuses on the theory, method and process of doing surveillance studies, as well as provides a platform for discussion of the potential gaps and areas requiring further attention, such as marginalized voices and
epistemologies. The workshop will address themes such as:
- Surveillance and the Global South
- Gender and Surveillance
- Pedagogical Approaches to Surveillance Studies
The workshop draws on the best surveillance scholarship available to reflect on how surveillance studies is currently being done and take up the question of what is important in moving forward. As such, the
workshop will focus on how surveillance research meets methods and pedagogy within surveillance studies. In short, what do we know, what can we learn, what can we teach, and what methods are we drawing on, in doing surveillance studies?
The rest of the programme
is devoted to theoretical, methodological and professional issues, and to open interaction with established scholars in the field.
SSSS participants are encouraged to comment, in their statement of interest, on what areas of surveillance studies are of particular interest.
There will be no assessed tasks and no credit for enrolling in the seminar, although a letter confirming your completion of the seminar will be provided.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
The Summer Seminar is limited to 30 participants who are PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Applicants must submit a 250 word statement of interest, a short biography, and pay a $250 CAD deposit with their registration, which will be
refunded should the application not be accepted.
FEES AND SUBSIDIES:
The fee for the 2013 SSSS is $700 CAD. This includes automatic registration to the
Doing Surveillance Studies research workshop.
The
fee does not include travel or accommodation. Applicants should pursue funding opportunities before submitting their application.
- The Surveillance Studies Centre (SCC) will award up to three Summer Seminar tuition subsidies to non-Queen’s graduate student registrants who can demonstrate financial need.
- The Surveillance Studies Network Global Scholar Award (SSN) will award up to three bursaries of £500 (500 GBP) each to SSSS participants from less developed or developing countries who are in need of financial assistance.
The deadline to apply for both subsidies is 8 FEBRUARY 2013.
ACCOMMODATION:
On-campus accommodation in Queen's University's premium student residence,
Leggett Hall, is available
to all participants.
Accommodation expenses are NOT included in the registration fee.
Joan Sharpe
Project Administrator
Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o Dept of Sociology
Queen’s University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Canada
(613) 533-6000, ext. 78867
(613) 533-6499 FAX
Twitter @sscqueens
www.sscqueens.org
www.newtransparency.org
