24 June 2020 08:01The MoU was signed by Lancaster’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global), Professor Simon Guy (right), and the Pro-Rector for International Relations of Padua University, Professor Alessandro Paccagnella. The centre photograph shows Padua University’s elegant...
EXPERIMENTS
Walking Seminars and the infrastructure of immobility
I spent three weeks at CeMoRe in the autumn of 2019 for a research stay as part of my project about car parking in cities. I have been familiar with the excellent work done by researchers in the centre, so visiting it was a natural choice. Previously, I had a chance...
Reflections from Visiting CeMoRe
My name is Ragnhild Dahl Wikstrøm, and I’m a PhD research fellow in Human Geography at the University of Oslo. As part of my PhD I was based at CeMoRe and Lancaster University for almost six months. In 2018, I had the pleasure of meeting the director of CeMoRe, Monika...
COVID-19, Storms, and Academics
As HK professor at the Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, which was launched in 2018 to promote mobility studies from a humanities perspective, I am primarily focused on designing AMH’s research plans, publications, and...
A Great Mobility Transformation
This is a blog post published along contributions from Bryan S. Turner, Ingrid Piller, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Brent Greve, Jillian Rickly, Stephanie Walsh Matthews, Stephanie Jane Nawyn, Debora Lupton, Anthony Elliott, Sharon Varney, Robert van Krieken by DeGruyter...
Covid-19: Other mobilities are (im)possible
Other Mobilities are possible Monika Büscher, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University Other mobilities are possible. But will a systemic shock engender systemic change? Covid-19 (aka Coronavirus) has shut down air travel and the global economy, and...
CFP: Unruly Landscapes, June 18-19, ONLINE
A Carbon Neutral and Virus Safe Colloquium Co-hosted by CeMoRe (Lancaster) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility Humanities (University of Padua) June 18-19 2020, Online While the vast numbers of publications dedicated to the study...
The politics of debt and mobilities research
Benjamin Schwarz Last summer, I had the pleasure of undertaking a research stay at CeMoRe, as part of my ongoing PhD research based at Roskilde University in Denmark. During my stay, I was fortunate to receive supervision from CeMoRe Co-director Joe Deville, with...
Postponed: Are we ready for IT? Data Mobilities Workshop
Is Society Ready for IT? Or is IT Ready for Society? Monika Buscher and Birgit Moesl are running a workshop at the now postponed Public Safety Communications Europe Network Conference. This is inspired by rapid changes in public safety communications and a need to...