Bologna, Italy: March 4-7 2019 I am compiling a proposal for a panel to be included in next year’s EUARE conference. This would be to… Read More »Surveillance and religion panel – a proposal for EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Join cyber security expert Prof Bill Buchanan, Chairman of the CCBE Working Party on Surveillance Iain Mitchell QC and Dr Eric Stoddart, Associate Director of the Centre for the… Read More »Borders, benefits, and biomedicine: surveillance and social justice.
The call for papers for this special issue on surveillance and religion is now open. Submission deadline is 1 August 2017 for publication in early… Read More »Special Issue of ‘Surveillance & Society’ on Religion
Will using surveillance make good religion better and bad religion worse? Monday 20th March 2017; 7.30pm. Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL… Read More »Religions Consuming Surveillance – Public Lecture
Faith communities use surveillance technologies to protect themselves and to perform their commitment to loving care. Surveillance technologies are shaping those who use and encounter… Read More »Religions Consuming Surveillance
Why is everyday surveillance a religious issue? Prof. David Lyon This free public lecture on 17th October 2016 in central Birmingham, UK, is aimed at… Read More »Public Lecture
Faith traditions understand the Divine gaze, Divine assistance, and human relations in different ways. These religious themes relate directly to contemporary issues of national and personal security… Read More »Religion, security and surveillance
Funding has been secured for a new Surveillance and Religion Research Network based at the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, led by Dr… Read More »Funding for Surveillance & Religion Network
Tonight I’m giving this lecture at St Andrews, ‘The Common Gaze: The Common Good and 21st Century Surveilllance.’ It will be streamed live on Periscope… Read More »2nd Annual Surveillance & Religion Lecture, 12 April 2016
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson (Stockholm School of Theology) writes of her recent visit 8-18 April 2015 to collaborate with me on our ‘Surveillance & Religion Network’… Read More »Visit of Swedish Surveillance & Religion scholar