(Postponed until next fall) The Walls Have Eyes: The Human Impacts of Surveillance Technologies on People Crossing Borders
Due to Environment Canada’s orange alert for freezing rain expected over the next two days, Petra Molnar and the GSCMF mutually agreed this morning to postpone her visit to Montreal and UQAM. With travel conditions expected to be difficult both for her and for the students who would be attending her workshop and lecture, the safety of everyone involved was prioritized.
The event has been postponed until fall 2026: the exact dates will be announced shortly!
Thank you for your understanding.
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The Canada Research Chair in Security Governance of Bodies, Mobility, and Borders and the Raoul–Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec in Montreal invite you to a lecture by Petra Molnar.
Abstract
Petra Molnar offers a critical examination of the global trend toward using AI–based technology to manage global migration flows, with an inhumane and lucrative market for technological border management that now structures everyone’s daily life without much regulatory oversight, whether through biometric databases, drones, or algorithms. Based on a personal, ethical, and documentary approach, built on research and human testimonies gathered during her travels (from Greece to Mexico, Kenya to Palestine), she presents a dystopian vision turned reality of the border as a business and technological infrastructure, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithms.
The discussion will be moderated by Simon Hogue and Anne–Marie D’Aoust.
Speaker
Petra Molnar, Lawyer and anthropologist, Harvard University and York University, Citizen Lab)
