Automation, Labour and Future Mobilities
This reading group is an opportunity for us to explore how mobilities research is responding to pressing questions about robots, automation, and our technological futures. From the new kinds of micro-bodily movements that are created by these technologies, up to the...
Play: ‘isITethical?’
The CeMoRe Reading Group will next meet on Wednesday 14th June, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab. It is the last meeting this academic year, so make sure you don’t miss it! Let’s close the books and play a board game! isITethical? is a board game designed to playfully explore...
Mobile Utopia Programme Shaping
The Mobile Utopia Conference Programme is shaping up. We had a terrific day browsing through all the abstracts, putting together a first draft of themed sessions, discovering connections, new ideas, new methodologies and approaches, as well as discussing our own work...
Migrancy Reading Group
TIME: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 1-2.30pm PLACE: B35 County South READING: We will be reading from the book "Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies" which is collaborative volume by Hannah Jones et al. published by Manchester University Press 2017. Please...
CeMoRe walking seminar
My residency exploring the Duddon is part funded by the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, and as part of my visiting fellowship with them I instigated a walk around an area of the Dunnerdale Fells. Below are a selection of photos from the...
Spatial models and mobilities
Dear All, The Cemore reading group will next meet on Wednesday 24th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab at CeMoRe. What can mobilities and regional studies learn from each other? Let's sit together and discuss! There are two papers to be discussed. The first was probably...
Infrastructuring: Notes from Russia
I'm still inspired by the presentations and discussions at the Conference on Living Infrastructures: Beyond Global North and Global South, April 27-28, 2017, at Volgograd State University. Andrey Kuznetsov and his colleagues brought together researchers from across...
Mobile Cultures of Disaster Video
I've returned inspired from the Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference, 22 March - 24 March 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Supported by the Japan Foundation, the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia, the School of...
Consumption and urban public space
The Cemore reading group will meet on Wednesday 10th May, 4-5 pm in Mobilities Lab to discuss: Prashan Ranasinghe. 2011. “Public Disorder and Its Relation to the Community-Civility-Consumption Triad: A Case Study on the Uses and Users of Contemporary Urban Public...
CeMoRe Conference Launches New Book Series
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...
Mobile Utopia exhibition deadline – May 5th
LAST CHANCE! The deadline for submitting artworks and posters for the exhibition is May 5th. Submission guidelines can be found here.
Mobilities Equipment is Moving
The mobilities lab is moving over to a new online booking system for research equipment! We are in the process of transferring to this system so please bear with us - we aim to keep all equipment available during this period. Equipment will be reserved and collected...
Mobilities design – discussing Ole Jensen’s paper
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:...
Mobilities, Literature and Culture Conference
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...
Mobilising Data: isITethical? at PSCE 2017
Cemore's Monika Büscher and Malé Luján Escalante will take the game isITethical to the Public Safety Communications Europe Conference in Munich, 3-5 May 2017. Abstract IsITethical? The Board Game: experimenting with ethical impact assessment as creative collaborative...
By Duddon’s Side with Nikki Pugh 27 April 2017
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...
Infrastructuring Mobile Utopia: Global Challenges, Global Responses
Cemore's Monika Buscher is giving a keynote at the Living Infrastructures, Volgograd, 27-28 April 2017. https://livinginfrastructures.wordpress.com/about/ Abstract: Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...
Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference
Cemore Director Monika Büscher is giving a keynote at the Mobile Cultures of Disasters Conference in Adelaide. A Mobile Utopia of Radically Reflexive Resilience Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...