[ecrea] 'Science Fiction in the Present: Military Technology and Contemporary Culture,' Newcastle, 26th May, 2011

> Dear friend/colleague
>
> Please find attached details of a one-day event  at Newcastle
> University's Culture Lab on 26th May, 2011, titled:  "Science Fiction in
> the Present: Military Technology and Contemporary Culture."
>
> Speakers will include Noel Sharkey (Sheffield University); Stephen
> Graham (Newcastle University); Mark Dorrian (Newcastle University);
> David Cunningham (University of Westminster); Matt Carr (Independent
> Scholar); John Beck (Newcastle University); and Iain Boal (Birkbeck/
> Retort). The event is being co-organised by Stephen Graham and Mark
> Dorrian of Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and
> Landscape.
>
> All welcome!! Please circulate!!
>
> To reserve a place, please email Anne Fry at (anne.fry /at/ ncl.ac.uk)
>
> Best
>
> Steve Graham
>
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>    Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, Global Urban
> Research Unit
>    School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Room 415, Claremont
> Tower, Newcastle University,
>    Newcastle upon Tyne,  NE1 7RU, U.K. Email: steve.graham at ncl.ac.uk
> Telephone: +44(0)(191)2228579
>    skype stevegraham46    Personal web page:
> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/staff/profile/steve.graham
>    New edited book, 'Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails'
> (Routledge, 2009)
>    New book  'Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism' (Verso,
> 2010)
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