CeMoRe Annual Research Day

Draft programme

9.15: Coffee and registratioN

9.30 - 11.00: Introduction and welcome

Session 1: Spaces and places of mobility

Chair: Colin Pooley

Chris Boyko, Monika Buscher, Tim Dant, Karenza Moore (Mobilities Lab) - A new Interaction Order?

Ole J. Mjos (CeMoRe) - Music, Social Media and Global Mobility: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

Lars Böcker (Utrecht) - Mobilities of business travel: Exploration of the occurrence, experience and performance of travel situations

11.00-11.15: Coffee

11.15-1.00

Session 2: Systems and networks of mobility

Chair: Tim Dant

Kathryn Wilkins (Geography, Durham) - Networks of the Victorian Aristocracy: A response to the 'new mobilities paradigm

Allison Hui (Sociology) - Following elements of leisure: the interrelated mobilities of things, people, and practices

Katerina Psarikidou, Larry Reynolds and Bronislaw Szerszynski (Cesagen/Sociology) - Contested Agro-Food Mobilities

Sergio C. Benicio de Mello (CeMoRe) - The Compelling Force of Speed Politics

1.00-1.45: Lunch

1.45-3.30

Session 3: Everyday Mobilities

Chair: John Urry

Dave Horton (LEC) - Committed, contingent and too-scary-to-contemplate: contemporary cycling conditions and the production of cycling identities

Jenni Kuoppa (CeMoRe) - Weathers for walking and cycling in urban environments

Griet Scheldeman (LEC) - Crafting selves: everyday skilled engagement with seasonal surfaces

Thomas Birtchnell (Sociology) - High Ambitions: India's Top-Heavy Vehicles as Grassroots Innovation

3.30 - 3.45: Tea

3.45 -5.00

Session 4: Mobility and health

Chair: Colin Pooley

Jamie O'Brien (CeMoRe/UCL) - Sitelines: threads and traces for the London Brain Injury Map

Alan Beattie (CeMoRe) - Are psychiatric survivors the intrepid cartographers of mobile modernity - or its casualties?

Closing discussion