On the 7th and 8th July 2022, CeMoRe hosted the ‘Auto/biography, Mobilities and the Climate Emergency’ conference in partnership with Academy of Mobility Humanities at Konkuk University, during which, Lancaster University and Konkuk University signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
The conference was organised by Dr Nicola Spurling and Professor Lynne Pearce, our Director and Co-Director of CeMoRe. The event featured a number of talks and presentations of ongoing research according to the theme from professors and post-graduate students from Lancaster University, Konkuk University, Royal Holloway and Aberystwyth alongside an inspiring keynote from Dr Lesley Murray. The event concluded with a round table featuring professors from the four universities, discussing the most poignant ‘take home’ messages from across the event. One of the most prominent of these ‘take home’ messages was the importance of noticing and paying attention to the subtle differences between UK and Korean cultures, something to be developed and built upon as the Memorandum of Understanding continues and the partnership between Lancaster University and Konkuk University provides new opportunity for the building of relationships.
The conference also provided the opportunity to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between Lancaster and Konkuk University, first signed in 2020 and extended for the next three years at the conference.
CeMoRe looks forward to the future events and opportunities this memorandum and the UKRI South Korea Connections Grant that Lancaster, Royal Holloway, Aberystwyth and Konkuk, has been awarded with a remit to explore how mobilities research can be used to help tackle the global challenges relating to mobility futures such as the climate emergency, displacement and mobility justice.
To read more about the grant and memorandum of understanding, please follow this link to the LU news page:
