Surveillance and the Eye of God

MAR 01, 2013 | 12:00 PM

Details

WHERE:

The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34 Street)

ROOM:

6112: Sociology Student Lounge

WHEN:

March 01, 2013: 12:00 PM

ADMISSION:

Free

Description

Surveillance and the Eye of God

David Lyon is Professor of Sociology and Queen’s Research Chair in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Author of a number of important works on the role of surveillance in contemporary society, Lyon is North American editor of Surveillance & Society and on the international editorial boards of seven other journals. His books have been translated into thirteen languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In 2005, Lyon was awarded a Queen’s Research Chair and in 2007 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technology Section. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Cosponsored by the Committee for the Study of Religion