'From Terror to Grace' Chapter 1 from Ruth Levitas Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The second reading of our Utopia-themed mobilities meetings. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...
5th May from 4pm, Bowland North, Seminar Room 01 CeMoRe and CeDR are hosting a live video link to this seminar in Montreal. A live Q&A session will be hosted by Owen Chapman who is a CeMoRe visiting fellow and co-director of the Community and Differential...
"The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study" by Elena Semino et al. 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Elena will join us to participate in discussion of this reading....
Cosmin Popan, doctoral candidate in Sociology, tells us what's mobile about researching bicycles and alternative mobility systems. My PhD thesis investigates the possibilities for everyday urban cycling to become a socio-technical system that...
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely...
"Future Perfect: Retheorising Utopia", Ch. 8 from Ruth Levitas' The Concept of Utopia, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The second reading of our Utopia-themed mobilities meetings. Thanks to Richard Tutton for the suggestion! Everyone is invited to attend...
Why are Government culling badgers for the sake of bovine Tuberculosis? How does badger culling affect badger and disease mobility across the country? Jess Phoenix, PhD student at Lancaster, tries to answer these questions in this blog post. My PhD focuses upon...
"Geolocation and Video Ethnography: Capturing Mobile Internet Used by a Commuter" by Voilmy, Smoreda & Ziemlicki, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Thanks to Visiting PhD Zofia Bednarowska for the suggestion. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...
Thomas More's Utopia will be discussed at this joint ISF/Mobilities Reading Group, 4-5PM, FASS Building, Meeting Room 1. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the discussion! The book is available in various formats here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130