A body spa on the move: The emperor鈥檚 bathing experience
How does a sensual bathing experience link to a digitized one? Kornelia Hahn, professor of Sociology at the University of Salzburg, presents an empirical case of a popular commodified spa body treatment that is marketed as the emperor鈥檚 bathing experience. ...
Cemore Showcase
Last week we organized another edition of Cemore Showcase, featuring 3-minute stand-up presentations by our researchers and associates. A dozen presentations on topics ranging from cycling to migration, to autonomous driving, to death in digital games have been...
1st March 2017 Reading: aesthetic anticipation of the future
Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere's聽the politics of aesthetics聽(2004, pp. 20-30.聽 http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf slowly.
Cemore walk: Shaping and being shaped by the Duddon Valley
Sunday 12th February Join us in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District for a breath of fresh air and a Cemore walking seminar with artist Nikki Pugh. The walk will take in sites related to Nikki鈥檚 research for her current work with Chris Donaldson from Lancaster...
5 Anatomy Lessons
Anatomy of a Soldier聽tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasn鈥檛 on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when...
Difference, repetition, movement
This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze's聽Difference and Repetition,聽because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found Deleuze聽'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures Cemore|T2M|Cosmobilities Conference
Cemore is hosting the 2017 Mobilities Conference!
Difference and Repetition
Cemore Reading Group, Wednesday February 1st, 4-5pm,聽Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss聽the Introduction to Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (London: Continuum Books, 2004 [1968], pp. 1-37). It will be...
Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management
Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a聽workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...
Researching and communicating disasters, one tweet at a time
How to navigate through the noise of social media and communicate effectively in disaster situations? Lise Ann St Denis, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has visited CeMoRe to give a seminar on this topic. Lise Ann St Denis has looked at a grassroots...
Previous Cemore Fellowships
Rachel Aldred聽 聽Tarini Bedi聽 聽David Bissell 聽聽Owen Chapman聽 聽Cathy Coleborne聽 聽Martin Emanuel 聽聽聽 聽聽 聽聽 聽Nikki Pugh 聽聽聽 Holly Thorpe
Previous Visitors
Thiago Allis 聽 Zofia Bednarowska 聽 Kornelia Hahn 聽 Claus Lassen 聽 Camila Dos Santos Moraes 聽 Bianca Freire Medeiros聽 聽Miriam Schreiter
To apply for 聽Cemore Fellowship, please see here. Cemore also warmly welcomes visitors. To find out more, please contact Aurora Trujillo.