Last month Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research hosted the inaugural conference of Palgrave Macmillan’s new book series, Mobilites, Literature, Culture. The conference - which was organised by Lynne Pearce (from the Department of English and...
The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss: Ole Jensen (2016) - Of ‘other’ materialities: why (mobilities) design is central to the future of mobilities research, Mobilities, 11:4, 587-597, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211826. The link to this article:...
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA), and Lynne...
Cemore Seminar: Standing in a cold river for an hour, nervous explorations underground, scrubbing a handmade kayak and listening to a waterfall from the inside: just some of the things artist Nikki Pugh found herself doing over the last few months as she investigated...
The Final Programme for Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies Lancaster University, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017 This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and...
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...
Picking Up is about the seemingly mundane and certainly smelly world of garbage collection in New York City. Author Robin Nagle is motivated by the question, “Who cleans up after us?” She works as an anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation...
1st March Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere's the politics of aesthetics (2004, pp. 20-30. http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf...
How does a sensual bathing experience link to a digitized one? Kornelia Hahn, professor of Sociology at the University of Salzburg, presents an empirical case of a popular commodified spa body treatment that is marketed as the emperor’s bathing experience. ...