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Call for Participation
Global Conference On Mobility Futures
Lancaster Centre for Mobilities Research
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/mobility-futures/
Submission deadlines: Academic Papers: 12th April / exhibition 19th
April
As part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Centre for
Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University, we are pleased
to announce and invite contributions for the ‘Global Conference on
Mobility Futures’, 4-6 September 2013, at Lancaster University, UK.
Over the past decade, the work of CeMoRe and others have helped to
‘mobilise’ the social and human sciences and developed innovative
analyses of economic, social, technological, political, policy and
design transformations. The ‘Global Conference on Mobility Futures’
will reflect this work and provide a forum for the presentation of
cutting edge research from across the social sciences/humanities that
reflects back on, explores the present and looks towards future
mobilities.
The conference theme
The conference will address all aspects of Mobilities research.
Mobilities research addresses not only the movement of people,
objects, information, messages, risks and images through intersecting
mobility-systems. It also explores the motivations, pleasures, pains
and practices of stillness, of coordinating movement, blocking it,
holding things in place, creating and maintaining social and material
infrastructures. Some likely past, present and future mobilities to be
debated at the Conference include: disasters; electric bikes; social
networking; emergencies; military mobilities; experiences of being on
the move; 4G; space tourism; climate change refugees; oil wars;
gendered, aged and ethnic mobilities; ‘future mobile imaginaries’;
citizen innovation; mobile art; mobile methods; food vs fuel; 3D
printing; Arctic mobilities; slow travel; Chinese and Indian
mobilities; high speed rail; and alternatives to corporeal travel.
A key priority theme, reflecting current and urgent societal concerns,
will be questions about limits to the expansion and sophistication of
future mobilities. Such questions mean considering if there are limits
to mobility, what the limits are, and what consequences limits may
have for people’s lives. It also means considering whether different
mobilities might substitute for each other, whether this is likely or
desirable, and how to design and bring about ‘good mobilities’ in a
period of continued austerity.
Conference format
This event will bring together leading theorists and practitioners,
transport professionals, computer experts, artists, policy-makers,
established academics and junior researchers who are contributing in
some way to this paradigm. Confirmed keynote and invited speakers
include:
Peter Adey, Reader in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, London 2
Rachel Aldred, Senior Lecturer in Transport at the University of
Westminster, London
Barry Brown, MobileLife, University of Stockholm
Bianca Freire Medeiros, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Center for
Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History (CPDOC)
at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ole B. Jensen, Professor of Urban Theory, Aalborg University and
Director of the Research Cluster for Mobility and Tracking
Technologies (MoTT), Denmark
Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies, University of California,
Davis, US
Sven Kesselring, the Cosmobilities Network and Professor, Aalborg
University
James Marriott, Co-Founder of Platform (‘Arts, Activism, Education,
Research’) and co-author of The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian
Sea to the City of London
Leysia Palen, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Director
Project EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis and
Director of Connectivity Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Kim Sawchuk, Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University,
Canada
Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy and
Professor of Sociology, Drexel University, US
Elizabeth Shove, Professor of Sociology and Director of EPSRC/ESRC
Research Centre DEMAND, Lancaster University
Adrian da Souza e Silva, Associate Professor of Communcation, North
Carolina State University, US
John Urry, Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster
University, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Susan Zielinski, Professor of Transportation Research and Director of
Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation
(SMART), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
Based at Lancaster University, the conference will be multi-sited with
events, lectures, seminars, exhibitions, video streams, and short
talks linked together around the world. It will be curated by
Lancaster staff but with participation from other mobility centres and
networks.
Call for Contributions
We invite a range of different kinds of contributions on the themes
outlined above. Please note that there is a no-fly attendance option,
where you have the opportunity to present and discuss your work
without physically travelling to Lancaster.
Submit your contribution here
Abstracts
Academic papers exploring the theory, practice, and implications of
mobile living. Participants will be expected to deliver a (ca 20min)
talk. Please submit a 500 word abstract by 12th April 2013.
Notification of acceptance: 10th May. For further information please
contact Monika Buscher [email protected].
Posters
Accepted posters will be presented in short ‘Pecha-Kucha’ sessions (a
series of slides delivered in 6 minutes) in addition to being
exhibited in the social spaces of the conference. Authors will also be
expected to be available for discussion during specified poster
sessions during breaks. Please submit a poster by 19th April 2013.
Notification of acceptance: 18th May. For further information please
contact Lisa Wood [email protected].
Artworks
There will be a physical and virtual exhibition of art relating to the
conference themes (in the widest sense). Artists may be asked to
deliver a short talk. Please submit a 500 word abstract by 19th April
2013. Notification of acceptance: 18th May. The Lancaster-based
Catalyst project is offering a bursary of £2000 for new mobilities art
work related to 'citizen-led digital innovation for social change'. (www.catalystproject.org.uk
) For further details please contact Jen Southern [email protected]
.
Open
If you have ideas for unusual conference contributions that do not fit
any of the above formats, please contact Jen Southern mailto:[email protected]
.
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