Speaker profile: Stephen Graham

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Stephen Graham will be speaking at Lift10 in our opening session on the redefinition of privacy. We invited him to speak because of his investigations into how networked technologies redefine the notion of surveillance. His perspective as a geographer adds an important dimension to the discussion around the evolution of privacy.

Following a period at Durham Geography Department, Stephen is now Professor at the Global Urban Research Unit at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. He has a background in urbanism, planning and the sociology of technology. His research addresses intersections between urban places, mobilities, technology, war, militarization, surveillance and geopolitics. He writes and lectures in many countries and across a variety of disciplines.

Stephen has authored, co-authored and edited a range of books, including Telecommunications and the City (1996), Splintering Urbanism (2001) (both with Simon Marvin), The Cybercities Reader and Cities, War and Terrorism (both 2004). His most recent books, Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail (Routledge), and Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism (Verso), were published in December 2009 and January 2010 respectively.