Mobilities Across Disciplines: HCISS Works in Progress Seminar
Romance Cafe with man riding bike infront
This seminar features four works in progress from this project, including a discussion on different approaches to the study of mobilities.
Mobilities refers to the study of people and other animals, objects, technologies, ideas, media and viruses on the move, the spaces where they transit, end up, and shape along the way.
Through 2022, four HCISS researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds took up the challenge to develop critical, interdisciplinary research on mobilities of different matter; at different speeds; in different time periods; using different methods; at different scales; generated by and of different politics. This seminar features four works in progress from this project, leading into a discussion on different approaches to the study of mobilities.
We invite colleagues to come along for the papers and participate in the discussion.
Paper 1: The politics of displacement: how mining South Pacific guano solved Australia's mid-20th century rural crisis but destroyed Nauru and Banaba; Assoc Prof Julie McIntyre and Felix Fabre.
Paper 2: Thinking about mobility as a historian: writing about socio-legal histories of vagrancy. Prof Catherine Colebourne.
Paper 3: Skateboarding in the empty city: a radical archive of alternative pandemic mobilities. Prof Duncan McDuie-Ra.
Paper 4: Nordic Noir Goes Global: a quantitative study of the circulation of crime fiction. Prof Jesper Gulddal
Join us on Level 2 of the University of Newcastle's Q Building for this discussion. Zoom details are also available for those wishing to join remotely.
Event Information
- Date: This event was held on Friday 26 May 2023
- Location: Q Building, 16B Honeysuckle Drive Newcastle, NSW 2300
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