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Eds. Wright, D. and De Hert, P.

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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 29-31 May 2012

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At the Fifth Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

2nd April 2012, University of Sheffield, UK

The 2nd LiSS Doctoral School will take place during the Fifth Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference, which will take place at the University of  Sheffield between 2-4 April 2012.

Applicants are expected to be doctoral students and to participate fully in the doctoral programme – which includes presentations of academic papers.

LiSS...

First conference of the research network Negotiating (In)Visibilities

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Part One of a Special Issue of the journal Information Polity

Edited by Webster, Toepfer, Klauser and Raab

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The Surveillance Studies network is now accepting nominations for its second annual book prize

It wants to recognize the world’s best English language scholarly book published on the topic of surveillance in the past year. Nominated books must be an original (or newly translated) monograph (not an edited collection), and published in English with a 2011 publication date. Nominations are accepted from authors, publishers or third parties and must be received by March 10th, 2012. The...

University of Leeds, 27-28 February 2012

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Editors: Kees Boersma, Rosamunde van Brakel, Chiara Fonio and Pieter Wagenaar

The overall aim of this collected volume is to bring together contributions on the history of surveillance, in order to determine what its drivers are.

Introduction to the edited volume

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Often we read in the newspapers that new technology...

At the Law Science Technology & Society Research Group (LSTS).

A research centre at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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Papers from the SSN-LiSS conference in May 2010.

A special Issue of the Journal Surveillance and Society

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Revue Espaces Populations Sociétés

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Further information (in French) available here

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

University of Edinburgh, 3 to 5 July 2012

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ICIL 2012, Corfu June 29-30, 2012,

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Call for applications for LiSS Short-Term Scientific Missions

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The International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities

University of Tübingen (Germany), 21-23 June 2012

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Eds. Fuchs, Boersma, Albrechtslund and Sandoval

A new book emerging from LiSS Working Group 2.

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The 5th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference

Supported by the Surveillance Studies Network

Sheffield University and Kenwood Hall Hotel, Sheffield, UK
April 2 - 4, 2012

If you wish to present a paper, please submit your 300 word abstract by the 7th January  2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Surveillance practice is future-oriented. Whether deployed by the state, the private sector or both, surveillance...

International Worksho, Feb. 2012

The Sixth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security

Sousveillance and the Social Implications of Point of View Technologies in the...

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

24-28 February 2012, New York

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Guest Editors: Katina Michael and Roba Abbas

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A new project funded by the EU FP7 Programme.

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Or contact Michael Friedewald

conference Technical University Berlin, April 5th and 6th 2011

The organizers are pleased to annouce the following confirmed keynote speakers on the Privacy and Accountability conference:

Colin Bennett, Paul de Hert, Charles Raab, Priscilla Regan.

Please mind the deadline for abstract submission, which is the 1st of
december. (details on

The first LiSS Newsletter has now been published and is available here

Organised by the Unified Theory of Information Research Group as part of the ‘Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society’ Austrian research project.

Further information is available here

The project website can be found