ISTC-Social Symposium on Information Materialities

The ISTC-Social hosts a symposium on the materialities of information at UC Irvine. Both full-fledged studies and work in progress are encoraged. So if you're in the area, this might be an excellent opportunity to discuss your ongoing work. Surveillance-related submissions are explicitly welcome! Note that the deadline has been extended to November 21. Here's the original call:

University of Amsterdam symposium on transnational bodies

The University of Amsterdam will host a one-day symposium on June 6, 2013: Transnational Bodies. There will be lectures on, among others, forensics, trafficking and violence. I think it resonates with, and might be informative for, what has been written about 'data doubles'. Not to mention the moments in which surveillance actually gets physical and intersects with intervention. This is the invitation:

PhD Seminar @ ITU Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen hosts its annual STS course for PhD students. This year's topic is dedicated to the question how we can analyze the agency of nonhumans - broad enough to fit in surveillance studies questions, such as how specific technologies afford specific surveillance practices. Francisca and I went in 2011, and they really do invite impressive speakers and discussants to their seminars, so check it out. Here's the original call: