CeMoRe’s 2023 Winter Webinar was co-hosted with Desert Disorders, with support from the British Academy. The webinar titled Poetry and Public Diplomacy: The Case of Western Sahara was jointly presented by Joanna Allan and Moiti Mohammed Azrouk, and chaired by...
Humanities Posts
Summer Seminar with Dr Sharon Wilson: Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
Putting “Flesh on the Boneyard”; everyday militaries and museum, a mobilities perspective. On 25th May 2023, CeMoRe was delighted to host Dr Sharon Wilson at an in-person event on Lancaster University campus. Dr Wilson discussed her recent work that aims to “put flesh...
Connecting Mobilities Research between the UK and South Korea
On the 3rd and 4th May, two of our CeMoRe directors Dr Nicola Spurling and Dr David Tyfield; CeMoRe PhD student Harriet Phipps, and two bursary winners Dr Simon Cook, Birmingham University and PhD student Nenna Orie Chuku, University College London visited Konkuk...
Connected Cumbria: Social Design and Business Podcast
Connected Cumbria: Social Design and Business https://open.spotify.com/episode/4y4ewm79gBIoT1iljdWBlA?si=jQlRdkiyRcGCxmhb71twXQ&nd=1 Click here to listen! This podcast explores social, digital and physical mobilities in Cumbria from a social design and business...
CeMoRe 20th Anniversary Programme of Events (February Update)
LANCASTER CENTRE FOR MOBILITIES RESEARCH [CeMoRe] 20th ANNIVERSARY (2003-2023) Programme of Events **F E B R U A R Y U P D A T E ** Academic year 2022-3 marks the twentieth anniversary of Lancaster’s Centre for Mobilities Research which was...
CeMoRe Winter Webinar: Dr Andrew Baldwin on ‘The Other of Climate Change’
On Friday 9th December, CeMoRe hosted its Winter Webinar featuring Dr Andrew Baldwin discussing his new book 'The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism. The talk had an excellent audience with interesting discussion led by Dr Luciana Barbosa...
Guest Post: Street Haunting in Lancaster, A walking historian’s visit to CeMoRe and surroundings
Written by Tiina Mannisto-Funk. “And what greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into those footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild...
CEMORE VISITING SCHOLAR WORKSHOP
Last week (8 November) CeMoRe and ISF co-hosted a workshop for our two Visiting Scholars, Tiina Mannisto-Funk (University of Turku) and Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland). The workshop, on the theme of ‘Mobility and the Production of Urban...
John Urry Annual Memorial Lecture 2022: Rethinking Landscape and Materiality
On Thursday 27th October CeMoRe and the ISF Institute for Social Futures) hosted the fifth annual John Urry Memorial Lecture. This year’s speaker was Tim Edensor from Manchester Metropolitan University who presented a fascinating paper on the...