The Vision Thing: From Black Mirror to Foresight Planning
This panel will explore how different organisations and society perceive and plan for the future, especially in relation to the evolution of new digital technologies. This visioning is especially important where the technologies being considered have potential societal harms,...
The NADPO Regional Conference will take place on 11 June 2025 in Birmingham.
CRISP Directors Professor's Kirstie Ball and William Webster are both due to speak.
Speakers so far include:
Ibrahim Hasan – “The Impact of the Data Use and Access Bill on the UK GDPR.”
Prof Kirstie Ball – “Proportionality and policy in employee monitoring practice”.
Prof William...
About the CRISP Doctoral School
The School takes place at the University of Stirling from the 16th – 20th June 2025. The School features five days of intensive training in multi-disciplinary research methods and skills in the field of Surveillance Studies. It will also feature a range of knowledge-exchange and research-training activities, as well as providing social and networking...
Dr Adam Molnar from the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, will deliver the eleventh CRISP online seminar. The seminar is entitled 'Digital Workplace Surveillance and Automated Management: A Socio-Legal and Technical Inquiry of Employee Monitoring Applications'. This online seminar takes place at 2.00pm BST on Wednesday April 16th 2025.
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Professor Anders Albrechstlund, Director of the Center for Surveillance Studies (CENSUS), Aarhus University will deliver the tenth CRISP online seminar. The seminar is entitled 'Making ethical surveillance work in the care for elderly with dementia'. This online seminar takes place online at 12.30pm GMT on Wednesday 12th March 2025.
Abstract:
A significant challenge in dementia...
Ivan Szekely from the Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University delivered the ninth CRISP online seminar entitled 'Orwell and Archives'. Click on the link for a recording of the seminar.
Abstract
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four usually brings to mind the ubiquity of surveillance, dictatorial power in every aspect of life, Big Brother, "newspeak" and other terms that have...
Free exhibition open to the general public
Archives area, Level 2, University of Stirling Library
Stirling District Asylum was established in 1865. The first patients were admitted in June 1869, many being transferred from asylums in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Located in Larbert the institution was renamed Bellsdyke Hospital in 1960. The historical records of the asylum...
University of Stirling, JISC Hub Room, Floor 3, University Library.
This event will be an interactive, in-person and online, workshop where published authors explore the text and meaning of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984. The event will be structured around these authors reading their favourite passages from the book, and explaining how the ideas and concepts embedded in...
As part of the surveillance extravaganza surrounding the Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth, the Macrobert Arts Centre at the University of Stirling will be screening 1984. This is the version produced in 1984 and directed by Michael Radford. The film will be introduced by Professor Stephen Ingle.
The classic George Orwell story set in a world where absolute conformity in...
What happened to the million quid that was burnt by the KLF on the Isle of Jura? How does this relate to 1984, surveillance, and artificial intelligence?
If you’re intrigued, then you are most welcome to attend our hybrid guest performance-lecture on February 13th, 2025 offering insights from KLF...
Want to know why Hans K Clausen created the Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth? What inspired him to create this amazing art installation, currently housed in the University of Stirling Library. Want to know how he did it? How did he collect 1,984 copies of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984?
Why don’t you come along and ask him for yourself? Hans will be available...
Futurist Professor Joe Little will deliver the 2025 CRISP Annual Lecture
18.30-20.00, 11 February 2025, University of Stirling Campus
Abstract
The next 10 years are likely to be the most crucial for mankind and, in terms of cyber security, surveillance, privacy and truth, the most vital for us to raise our game. Professor Joe Little is a futurist and he will be...
In this public lecture and discussion Professor Greg Singh will present from his forthcoming book ‘Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised’ (Routledge, 2025). The presentation will be followed by a discussion led by Dr David H. Flemming, University of Stirling, and Q&A session.
This event is hybrid and you can attend in-person or online. Attending is free.
To register an...
