Organized by Surveillance in the Majority World, SSN held panel and workshop sessions at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2025, in Lusaka, Zambia. This was our first ever event in Africa…
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About SSN/S&S Conferences and Events
#SSN2026 is our main conference, held every two years in Europe.
We also hold a series of regional SSN events in the years in-between our regular biennial conferences. These are designed to extend the reach of SSN and enable those unable to come to Europe-based conferences to get involved and to minimize the environmental impact of having more ‘global’ conferences.
We have previously held such events in Brazil (in Salvador in 2019, co-hosted with LAVITS, the Latin American network for surveillance studies), the USA (in 2023, at the University of Oregon), Zambia (in 2025, as part of DRIF2025), and in Canada (2025). We hope to hold future events in India, and East and South-East Asia.
Organized by Surveillance in the Majority World, SSN held panel and workshop sessions at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2025, in Lusaka, Zambia. This was our first ever event in Africa…
Surveillance and AI: SSN2025 North America Workshop was the 2nd SSN North America workshop. It was hosted by CSS/Lab at the University of Ottawa, Canada from 27-28 May 2025.
Surveillance in an Age of Crisis, the 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference (#SSN2024) was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was hosted by the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, and took place in the Faculty of Law.
Media, Information and Surveillance, our first workshop between biennial conferences and our first official event in North America, took place at the University of Oregon in the Fall of 2023.
The 9th biennial Surveillance & Society conference was hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam. It was originally scheduled for 2020 but was postponed for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 6th symposium organized by LAVITS (Latin American Network for Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies), took place in the city of Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil. It was jointly funded with SSN, the first time SSN funded a regional event. Another SSN regional events was due in 2021, but as with the 2020 Biennial Conference, the COVID-19 pandemic caused its cancellation.
Our 8th Biennial Conference took place in Aarhus, Denmark. It was organized in collaboration with Aarhus University’s Center for Surveillance Studies (CENSUS) and the University of Copenhagen’s Uncertain Archives project.
Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust, the 7th Biennial SSN/S&S Conference, was held for the second time running in Barcelona. It was organized by Eticas Research & Consulting. Read this report by Will Chivers…
The 6th biennial SSN/ S&S conference was hosted by the University of Barcelona and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), which hosted a media art exhibition on data and surveillance coinciding with the conference.
Watch this Space, the 5th Biennial SSN / S&S Conference took place from April 2-4, 2012, returning to the University of Sheffield, UK.
A Global Surveillance Society? The 4th Biennial SSN / S&S Conference was organized jointly by the SSN and theEuropean Science Foundation (ESF) Collaboration on Science and Technology (COST) Action, Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS). It was hosted by City University London, UK. A selection of papers from the conference were published here: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/gss
InVisibilities: The Politics, Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life, the 3rd Biennial SSN / S&S conference, was hosted by the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield, and was the first one held in association with the then newly-formed, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN).