Re-live CPDP with the recording of our panel!
- The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies is present in Firenze from September 6 - 9 at the 2023 edition of the conference hosted by the European Society of Criminology. Rosamunde van Brakel, Lander Govaerts, and Bram Visser will all be presenting their work in the coming days.
- From June 19 - 23 2023, Lander Govaerts, Ana Fernandez, and Bram Visser will be attending the CRISP Doctroral Training School at the University of Essex in Colchester to meet with fellow researchers for a week full of exciting learning activities.
- Rosamunde Van Brakel is on a research visit at the Deparment of Criminology and Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, Canada where she will conduct research with Valerie Steeves on risk assessment and situation tables for crime prevention.
- On 10th of June 2023 Bram Visser will present his work on the use of Digital Communication Technologies by Climate Activists at the Mobilization-SDSU conference on Protest, Resistance, and Democratic Retreat.
- On 25th of May 2023 Rosamunde Van Brakel presented in the panel organised by The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations entitled (Mis)use of surveillance technologies as emergency measures: Global lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic at CPDP2023 discussing surveillance harms and democratic oversight.
- The IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series published Ana Fernandez Inguanzo"s paper entitled 'Privacy and Data Protection in the Era of Recommendation Systems: A Postphenomenological Approach'
- Lander Govaerts, Lucas Melgaço, and Lior Volinz will be at the IEA Paris May 22 - 23 and present at the 'Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance' colloquim co-organised by Anders Albrechtslund (Aarhus University), Rosamunde Van Brakel (VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies), and Olivier Aïm (Sorbonne Université). Find out more about the progamme here.
- Rosamunde Van Brakel has been appointed as visiting professor at the Centre for Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK for a month and will be visiting from 24 April 2023 till 19 May 2023. During her time there she will give a seminar on harms of algorithmic policing.
VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies in collaboration with CENSUS, IEA, and supported by SSN organises an international, trans-disciplinary and multilingual symposium on Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, May 22-24, 2023.The deadline for proposals is March 6, 2023.Please find the call for abstracts here.
- The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies publishes workshop report on Oversight of Police-Use of Surveillance Technology. The report can be downloaded on the Publications section of the website or by clicking on the image above.
- On Saturday October 29, 2022, Rosamunde Van Brakel gave a keynote speech about Big Data Profiling and Socio-Technical Harms at ISTC's international colloquium entitled "Big Data": Influence, Manipulation et Mirco-Ciblage
On October 4 - 5, 2022, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies is hosting a workshop (closed session) on the Oversight of Police-Use of Surveillance Techonology with a variety of stakeholders present to inform the lively discussions. Stay tuned for a report in the coming weeks.
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- On September 22, the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will be presenting different perspectives on surveillance at the EUROCRIM conference in Malaga. Paper presentations by Lander Govaerts and Stephanie Garaglia, Ana Fernandez Inguanzo and Rosamunde Van Brakel, Lior Volinz, and Bram Visser.
- On Tuesday September 13, Lander Govaerts and Rosamunde van Brakel will present their work entitled ‘From social harms to socio-technical harms: Broadening zemiologist insights with a technological focus to explore the impact of algorithmic police surveillance on criminal justice practices and social justice' at the The Howard League conference on Crime, Justice and Human Condition in Oxford.
On Friday September 9, Lander Govaerts will present his work titled ‘Cybernetic Policing in Late Capitalism insipired by Tiqqun’s Cybernetic Hypothesis at The European Group conference in Turin
- On Tuesday August 30, Rosamunde Van Brakel gave an oral presentation as part of the hearings focussing on the victims of spyware and its use against citizens in the EP Committee of inquiry investigating the use of Pegasus and other spyware.
- Ana Fernandez Inguanzo has been selected to participate in the IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management taking place in Brunswick, Germany from August 30 - September 2.
On June 17 , Stephanie Garaglia will present at the Beyond Smart Cities Today conference in Malmö on ‘Smart cities and video surveillance: organized resistance by city dwellers’! Find out more here.
- The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will be present at the Surveillance Studies Network Conference 2022: June 1-3 Rotterdam with two paper presentations:
- In a paper entitled 'Unfolding urban reality: Towards a reconceptualization of violence through smart surveillance', Lander Govaerts and Stephanie Garaglia will use‘the fold’ of Deleuze as a toolbox to grasp the current state of subjectification of city dwellers. In doing so, the implementation of smart surveillance technology will be brought to account.
Bram Visser and Rosamunde Van Brakel's presentation will go deeper into police surveillant practices in their presentation entitled 'Legitimate police-use of surveillance technology? Addressing concerns about the Belgian governance framework'
A brand new blogpost written by Lander Govaerts entitled 'Facial recognition technology, a new Ring of Power for the Delhi police' is available on our blog.