Postgraduate Programme in Sociology
International Workshop

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is dual: first, to encourage comparative research on surveillance issues in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal; all these South European States have an authoritarian past and are members of the European Union with embedded democratic institutions; second, the formation of a pertinent research group by surveillance experts, doctoral researchers and graduate students from these countries, in cooperation with other European and international surveillance study groups.

Hence, surveillance researchers and graduate students from Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal will : first present the current surveillance dynamics in their countries, comparing traditional police surveillance of past authoritarian regimes with present new, electronic manifold surveillance under democracy and the European Union’s impact, but also under globalization, terrorism, neo-liberalism, immigration, etc. Then, they will try to discover major inter-state similarities and differences on surveillance law, governmental policies and privacy protection by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) regulations, as well as citizens’ attitudes, (ignorance, apathy, consent , resistance, ‘sousveillance,’ etc) on key surveillance issues like CCTV, DNA, ID, Telecommunications, Internet, workplace, borders, etc.

In this workshop participants will explore the surveillance issues from socio-historical, cultural and political viewpoint using theoretical, empirical and case-study approaches and data from national, EU and international sources, aspiring to organise future common empirical research and produce common publications.

WORKSHOP CONVENOR & ORGANISER:
SAMATAS, Minas University of Crete

INVITED SPEAKERS:

• FROIS Catarina, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• FONIO Chiara, University of Milan, Italy
• MITROU Lilian, Aegean University, Greece
• RODRIGUEZ Gabriela, University of Barcelona, Spain

Programme (pdf format)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Minas Samatas
Associate Professor, Sociology Department, UoC
samatas@social.soc.uoc.gr

Maria Kousis
Professor, Sociology Department, UoC
kousis@social.soc.uoc.gr

Nicos Eftaxias, Postgraduate Student

Christos Manouselis, Postgraduate Student

Technical assistance:
Tsirintanis Alexandros

Secretarial support:
Marina Moundrianaki

Information : tel. +30 28310 77488
fax. +30 28310 77467
samatas@social.soc.uoc.gr
www.soc.uoc.gr/socpms