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,...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
