Programme
CeMoRe Mobility Cultures Colloquium
Lancaster University
Friday 5th September 2014
Location: FASS Building Meeting Rooms 2/3
North Campus
FINAL PROGRAMME
9.30am: Coffee/Tea on arrival
9.50am: Welcome Address – Lynne Pearce and John Urry
10.00-11.00am: Opening Plenary
Peter Merriman (University of Aberystwyth)
Mobility Cultures and the Embodied Practices of Early British Motoring
11.00-11.30am: Coffee / Tea
11.30am-1.00pm: Panel I - Travelling Subjects
Ian Davidson (University of Northumbria) - 'Mobility, Subjectivity and Modern Poetry'
Christopher Donaldson (Lancaster) and Patricia Murrieta-Flores (University of Chester) - 'Site lines: mapping leisure travel through the English Lakes'
Colin Pooley (Lancaster) - Using Life-Writing to Interpret Everyday Mobility in the Past
1.00-2.00pm: LUNCH
2.00-3.30pm: Panel II – Literature on the Move
Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway, London) - 'Locality and Nation on the Move: the Case of Walter Scott'
Charlotte Mathieson (University of Warwick) - '"Moving on": Victorian literary mobilities and the case of Dickens's Bleak House'
John Culbert (University of British Columbia) - 'Wharton Automotive' [via WebEx]
3.30-4.00pm: Tea / Coffee
4.00-5.00pm: Panel III – Performing Mobility
Fiona Wilkie (University of Roehampton), 'Mobilising Titanic'.
Lesley Murray (University of Brighton) - 'Gendered and generational representations of mobilities in urban fiction'.
