Jeremy Rifkin – Planet Aqua recording
On February 26th 2026, CeMoRe hosted the 10th Anniversary John Urry Lecture online, delivered by ‘visionary’ thinker and policy consultant, Jeremy Rifkin. Jeremy presented on his latest book, Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe (2024), while also weaving...
Britain’s Changing Roadscapes: Mobility, Place, Attachment, Loss.
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book by our co-Director Prof. Lynne Pearce. Britain’s Changing Roadscapes: Mobility, Place, Attachment, Loss tells the unfolding story of road journeys by car with a focus on the shifting cultural, social,...
John Urry Lecture 2026 – Jeremy Rifkin on ‘Planet Aqua’
The Annual John Urry Lecture was established to commemorate the life and work of one of Lancaster’s foremost researchers, leading sociologist and co-founder of the 'mobilities paradigm', following his untimely death in March 2016. Please join us online on Thursday...
Winter Webinar 2026: Vagrancy, Seasonal Labour and Im/mobility in Australasia
Please join us for this year’s CeMoRe Winter Webinar at which Catharine Coleborne (Professor of History, Newcastle, AU) and Kaya Barry (Senior Lecturer in Geography and Art, Griffith, AU) will be presenting on their recent research.
Seaweed Mobilities Day
Seaweed Mobilities Day was an invited event that brought together 18 people to explore seaweed mobilities and to imagine ways that we could work together in the future. The project was a network building collaboration between the School...
Ole B. Jensen: MOBILITY INJUSTICE BY DESIGN
In September 2025 we welcomed Ole B. Jensen to Cemore and the School of Arts in Lancaster, and he very kindly agreed to present a paper on his forthcoming book. We are now very happy to share the recording. Mobility Injustice by Design – reflections over...
CeMoRe Summer Symposium 2025: Making Connections
20 June 2025 On an exceedingly hot Friday in June, colleagues from near and far gathered together in the Charles Carter Building at Lancaster University for CeMoRe’s Summer Symposium: a regular fixture in the CeMoRe diary for several years now. With a new...
Cemore Summer Symposium: Making Connections
Join us for the Cemore Summer Symposium 2025! Please register here for tickets for online and in person attendance: https://cemore_summer_symposium.eventbrite.co.uk An opportunity to get together with mobilities researchers from Lancaster and further afield, to share...
Migrations: International Mail Art Project. Call for submissions.
Cemore is pleased to support the Migrations International Mail Art Project curated by Fine Art Visiting Researcher Sait Toprak, and FIne Art Senior Lecturer Gerry Davies. Deadline: 28 April 2025 Exhibition Dates: 13 May-27 May 2025 Exhibition Place: Lancaster...
Uncertain Climates: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable
Cemore, in collaboration with the Centre for Science Studies is pleased to invite colleagues to join an interdisciplinary hybrid roundtable event on the topic of ‘Uncertain Climates’. The event will take place from 4pm to 5.15pm on Friday January 17th. Chaired by Dr....
John Urry Lecture – 27/02/2025- Simon Marvin. Urban Cybersymbiosis: The future of the techno-social city
Unpacking urban AI's genealogy, dynamics, and implications will be a programmatic responsibility for urban studies. This will take time, and the need for cautious, rigorous analysis will help avoid the trap of too quickly embracing utopian imaginaries or dystopian...
Mobilities Journal Special Issue: Auto/biography and mobilities in the time of climate emergency
The Special Issue, now available, is co-edited by CeMoRe’s Lynne Pearce and Nicola Spurling, and contains a collection of papers from a 2022 international conference held at Lancaster.
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Visiting Researcher post: Elisa Mozzelin came to Cemore in June 2024, to work on her doctoral research in Political Philosophy focusing on walking.
Gongoozling in Lancaster
Visiting Researcher post: Aleksandra Ianchenko, including Summer Webinar recording ‘Walking and Drawing as a Method for Urban Hauntings’
Tim Edensor: Sensory and Affective Engagements with Stone
Video published: In October 2023 we were delighted to host Professor Tim Edensor’s keynote lecture titled ‘Sensory and Affective Engagements with Stone’ which set the agenda for our discussions of rocky futures at T2M.
Poetry and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Western Sahara. CeMoRe Winter Webinar 2023
CeMoRe’s 2023 Winter Webinar was co-hosted with Desert Disorders, with support from the British Academy. The webinar titled Poetry and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Western Sahara was jointly presented by Joanna Allan and Moiti Mohammed Azrouk, and chaired by...
Towards Alternative Socio-Ecological Futures – the 6th Annual John Urry Lecture, 2023.
On Thursday 28th October, we were delighted to welcome Professor Alice Mah to Lancaster to deliver the 6th Annual John Urry Lecture, on the theme of ‘Towards alternative socio-ecological futures’. Alice’s wide-ranging and insightful talk opened with direct...
CeMoRe Hosts Lancaster Hub of the 2023 T2M Conference
Between Wednesday 25th and Saturday 28th October, CeMoRe hosted the Lancaster Hub of the annual T2M (Traffic, Travel and Mobilities) conference, this year taking place at the University of Konkuk in Seoul, South Korea. The CeMoRe strand of the conference was the final...