Welcome to the official website of the VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies. Have a look around to stay up to date on our Surveillance Studies Seminar Series, publications and other activities.
- 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.
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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.
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The VUB Chair in Surveillance Studies will be present at the Surveillance Studies Network Conference 2022: June 1-3 Rotterdam with two paper presentations:
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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.
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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'
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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.