Plenaries
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.
Invited speakers include:
- Peter Adey
- Rachel Aldred
- Bianca Freire Medeiros
- Ole B Jensen
- Caren Kaplan
- Sven Kesselring
- Leysia Palen
- Kim Sawchuk
- Mimi Sheller
- Elizabeth Shove
- Adriana da Souze e Silva
- John Urry
- Susan Zielinski
Conference Format
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 high participation from other mobility centres and networks.
Speakers Mini Biographies
Peter Adey
Peter Adey - Reader in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Rachel Aldred
Rachel Aldred is a sociologist based in the Westminster University Department of Planning and Transport. She has written extensively on cycling, having led the ESRC Cycling Cultures research project (2010-11). Current projects include the ESRC seminar series Modelling on the Move and the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis project Changing Commutes. Her website can be found at rachelaldred.org
Bianca Freire-Medeiros
Bianca Freire-Medeiros is a 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. She was a Research Fellow at the Center for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in 2009 and is the author of Touring Poverty (Routledge Advances in Sociology, 2013).
Ole B Jensen
Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University (Denmark).He holds a BA in Political Science, an MA in Sociology and a PhD in Planning. He is co-founder and board member at the Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS), Aalborg and Task Force Member in the Cosmobilities Network. His main research interests are within Urban Mobilities, Urban Networked Technologies, and Performative Environments. He is the co-author of Making European Space. Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity, Routledge, 2004 (with Tim Richardson), and author of Staging Mobilities, Routledge, 2013.
Caren Kaplan
Caren Kaplan - Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis, US
Sven Kesselring
Sven Kesselring, Speaker for the Cosmobilities Network
Leysia Palen
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
Kim Sawchuk, Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy and Professor of Sociology, Drexel University, US
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove, Professor and Director of EPSRC/ESRC Research Centre DEMAND, Lancaster University
Adriana da Souza e Silva
Adriana da Souza e Silva, Associate Professor of Communcation, North Carolina State University, US
John Urry
John Urry, Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, and Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Susan Zielinski
Susan Zielinski, Professor of Transportation Research and Director of Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation (SMART), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US.
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