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...
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Winter Webinar 2026: Vagrancy, Seasonal Labour and Im/mobility in Australasia
Catharine Coleborne and Kaya Barry 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...









