State Surveillance and Democracy in the Digital Era: A Transnational Perspective
This workshop will discuss the different publications of the program UTIC (2014-2019) on the communications surveillance practices of police and intelligence services, in particular in France but also at the European and transatlantic levels. The conversation will also include the new ORA program GUARDINT (2019-2022) on the fragile limits of democracies and the question of the oversight of intelligence services, especially when they are cooperating Internationally.
The workshop will be in English.
The following journal issues and books will be presented and discussed via different round tables:
Les mondes du renseignement, Cultures et Conflits éditions Harmattan (forthcoming September 2019) https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=revue&no=13
DAY 1 | September 18th 2019
17:00 to 17:15 : Opening remarks by Alain Dieckhoff
Engin Isin , Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Didier Bigo, Sciences Po: Data, Politics, Democracy and Obedience: A Very Short History
17:15 to 17:45 : Data Politics I: Internet and Politics
Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL): Data Rights: claiming privacy through international institutions, democratic claims and global world
Tomaso Venturini, CIS & CNRS : The data politics of online virality: When junk news become politicised
17:45 to 18:30 : Data Politics II: Book symposium
Dominique Cardon, Sciences Po
Anthony Amicelle, Université de Montréal
Karen Lund Peterson, University of Copenhagen
18:30 to 19:00 : Discussion with the audience
DAY 2 | September 19th 2019
14h30-16h00: Rethinking National Security, Intelligence and Surveillance in a digital age I: The future of critical intelligence studies: rethinking secrecy and democracy (UTIC)
Felix Treguer, Sciences Po - CERI: Seeing Like Big Tech. Security Assemblages, Technology, and the Future of State Bureaucracy
Didier Bigo, Sciences Po - CERI, Laurent Bonelli, Université Paris Nanterre : Digital Data and the Transnational Intelligence Space
General Discussion opened by Mark Phytian, University of Leicester
16h-16h30: coffe break
16h30 - 18h30 Rethinking National Security, Intelligence and Surveillance in a digital age II: Companion Researches from abroad
Karen Lund Peterson, University of Copenhagen: Bringing in the public. Intelligence on the frontier between state and civil society
Killian Veith, SNV-Germany: Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global politics, law and International Relations General Discussion, opened by Emma Mc Cluskey, King's College London
Thorsten Wetzling, SNV
Emma McCluskey, King's College London
Responsable scientifique: Didier Bigo, Sciences Po-CERI