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...
NoWHere: Futures of Collaboration
To experiment with futures of collaboration, the NowHere project team are running a 'no-fly' workshop. On 27th March 2017, Monika Buscher, Andrew Glover, Tania Lewis and Yolanda Strengers at RMIT in Melbourne (16:00) will start the workshop with James Faulconbridge,...
Out Now: Data Publics Programme
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...
Mobilities, Literature, Culture: CeMoRe hosts April 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),...
Taking out the trash
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...
Reading Ranciere 1st March 2017
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...
A body spa on the move: The emperor’s bathing experience
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. ...
Cemore Showcase
Last week we organized another edition of Cemore Showcase, featuring 3-minute stand-up presentations by our researchers and associates. A dozen presentations on topics ranging from cycling to migration, to autonomous driving, to death in digital games have been...
1st March 2017 Reading: aesthetic anticipation of the future
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 slowly.
Cemore walk: Shaping and being shaped by the Duddon Valley
Sunday 12th February Join us in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District for a breath of fresh air and a Cemore walking seminar with artist Nikki Pugh. The walk will take in sites related to Nikki’s research for her current work with Chris Donaldson from Lancaster...
5 Anatomy Lessons
Anatomy of a Soldier tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasn’t on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when...
Difference, repetition, movement
This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found Deleuze 'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures Cemore|T2M|Cosmobilities Conference
Cemore is hosting the 2017 Mobilities Conference!
Difference and Repetition
Cemore Reading Group, Wednesday February 1st, 4-5pm, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss the Introduction to Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (London: Continuum Books, 2004 [1968], pp. 1-37). It will be...
Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management
Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...
Researching and communicating disasters, one tweet at a time
How to navigate through the noise of social media and communicate effectively in disaster situations? Lise Ann St Denis, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has visited CeMoRe to give a seminar on this topic. Lise Ann St Denis has looked at a grassroots...
Deep mapping the Duddon Valley
Artist Nikki Pugh has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to help support a collaboration with Dr Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Regional History and Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Mapping of...
Death Studies Special Issue
The Death Studies Special Issue is nearing completion and will be published in February 2018.