Unpacking urban AI's genealogy, dynamics, and implications will be a programmatic responsibility for urban studies. This will take time, and the need for cautious, rigorous analysis will help avoid the trap of too quickly embracing utopian imaginaries or dystopian...
We’re pleased to announce the publication a Special Issue of Mobilities Journal titled Auto/biography and mobilities in the time of climate emergency. The collection has been co-edited by CeMoRe’s Lynne Pearce and Nicola Spurling, and contains a selection of...
Elisa Mozzelin I arrive in ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ from London after spending a few hours on the train, appreciating the landscape unfolding outside the window. It feels like those scenes in movies where actors remain still inside a moving vehicle, while a rolling landscape is...
by Aleksandra Ianchenko, Cemore Visiting Researcher, 2024. Image: Frottage from the milestone along the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Canal In June, I was lucky to be a visiting scholar at the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the Centre for Mobilities Research...
In October 2023 Cemore hosted the ‘Rocky Futures’ conference theme for the 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M) organised by T2M and the Academy of Mobility Humanities at Konkuk University. We...
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...
On Thursday 28th October, we were delighted to welcome Professor Alice Mah to ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ to deliver the 6th Annual John Urry Lecture, on the theme of ‘Towards alternative socio-ecological futures’. Alice’s wide-ranging and insightful talk opened with direct...
Between Wednesday 25th and Saturday 28th October, CeMoRe hosted the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Hub of the annual T2M (Traffic, Travel and Mobilities) conference, this year taking place at the University of Konkuk in Seoul, South Korea. The CeMoRe strand of the conference was the final...
As part of CeMoRe's 20th Anniversary Colloquium, some of our current directors alongside friends and colleagues of CeMoRe reflected on what 20 years of mobilities research meant to them and their research. The morning session of the colloquium featured reflections...