2017 EGPA Annual Conference, Milano, Italy
The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) in close collaboration with Politecnico di Milano is organizing the 2017 EGPA Annual Conference to be held from 30 August to 1st September in Bovisa (Milan). The event will be preceded by the PhD Symposium on 28 and 29 August.
As always, we are proposing a theme for the meeting, but also...
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Professor David Lyon will be visiting the University of St Andrews in May this year. As Principle Investigator on our 'Big Data Surveillance' SSHRC partnership grant he will be interacting with PhD students and staff who are researching surveillance issues in the University. He will also be delivering a seminar entitled 'Big Data Surveillance: Social Sorting on Steroids...
Room 1.06 Old Surgeons’ Hall, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
SSTI (Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation) and CRISP (Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy) are very pleased to present an informal seminar by David Lyon, one of the world’s leading and most prolific scholars of surveillance. He will talk about his forthcoming book, The...
Professor Kirstie Ball will be delivering a seminar entitled: Institutional Trustworthiness and the Security-Privacy Trade-Off in Europe. The seminar takes place at 3.30pm on Friday 14th April in the Old Library, Psychology Building, University of St Andrews, building no 69 on the campus map.
Abstract:
Against a backdrop of declining public trust in government and a climate of...
As part of the Edinburgh Festival of Science, the Church of Scotland is hosting a discussion entitled 'Borders, Benefits and Biomedicine: Surveillance and Social Justice'. The event will take place in the Main Hall at Summerhall (Edinburgh, EH9 1PL) and begins at 20.00.
Together, the invited speakers and the audience will examine whether digital surveillance is impacting issues of...
Faith communities use surveillance technologies to protect their buildings and worshippers. Religious leaders sometimes use their equivalent of customer data management software to track attendance numbers or to better understand the profile of their community. Individual religious believers engage in surveillance of one another through social networking sites.
Surveillance technologies...
Professor Lilian Edwards, Professor in the field of Internet Law at Strathclyde University will be giving a seminar on 17th March entitled 'Slave to the algorithm? Awaiting the Law Cavalry.' The seminar is hosted by the Department of Computing and takes place in the Jack Cole building room 1.33b.
The abstract of the talk is as follows:
There is considerable current concern about...
Workshop, University of Stirling
CRISP is hosting a workshop to explore contemporary citizen-centred approaches to engaging citizens about their experiences of privacy in the digital world. The ways in which citizen participation and engagement are evolving in the digital world will also be explored. The workshop will feature a series of contributions from expert speakers. It is designed...
Visiting researcher Dr Tjerk Timan will deliver a seminar entitled 'Re-inventing privacy for the 21st century - why and how?' on Wednesday 15th February from 12 - 2pm. The seminar will be held in Lecture Room 2 in the School of Management, The Gateway Building, North Haugh, St Andrews.
Abstract
Due to novel ICTs, classical distinctions of spaces such as the home, the workplace, or...
CRISP lecture at University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Law assumes that matter is passive while mind is active. This assumption no longer holds. In her talk Hildebrandt will discuss some of the core issues raised in her book, Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law (2015). First of all, she will explain what she has called ‘a new animism’ that increasingly ‘drives’ commercial...
