PhD Course Mobillity & Mobile Methods
Organizer: Associate Professor Claus Lassen, Institute of Planning & Development, Aalborg University , email: claus@plan.aau.dk
Lecturers: Professor, Mimi Sheller, mCenter, Drexel University
Associate Professor Claus Lassen and Professor Ole B. Jensen
ECTS: 3
Time: May 8-10, 2012
Place: [...]
TOURISM MOBILITIES: Examining Tourism at Different Speeds
ICOT 23rd – 26th May 2012,
Archanes, Crete
Special session at “Setting the Agenda for Special Interest Tourism: Past, Present and Future”
This session explores the intersection between various kinds of tourism mobilities. It focuses especially on two fields which shape tourism mobilities, namely technology and the senses. [...]
Routes, Roads and Landscapes
Edited by Mari Hvattum and Janike Kampevold Larsen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway and Brita Brenna and Beate Elvebakk, University of Oslo, Norway
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and [...]
Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time, on Canada’s West Coast
by Phillip Vannini
The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and [...]
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012: 3rd to 5th July 2012, Edinburgh, UK.
Call for Papers: The Geographies of Leisure?
Organiser: Dr Tara Duncan (University of Otago)
Leisure has long been a topic of the geographical imagination. Whilst leisure studies and geography may have gone in somewhat separate directions in the past, the multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary [...]
Psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility
Freiburg, 3-6 July 2012
Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago are proud to announce the second call for papers (deadline February the 1st; see also http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012) for an international workshop on psychological [...]
new publication
Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society
Edited by Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and John Urry, Lancaster University, UK
Series : Transport and Society
Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive [...]
Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute for British Geographers, 3rd – 5th July 2012, Edinburgh
Call for Papers
‘Mobile urban lives: continuity, evolution and security in a changing world’
Sponsored by the Transport Geography Research Group
Various forms of mobility – involving people, objects, information and ideas- are now ingrained in [...]
Sociospatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities lecture series
From January to March 2012, the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford will host a lecture series with distinguished experts speaking on the theme of Socio-spatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities:
18 January – Dr Karen Lucas, University of Oxford
25 [...]
Convergence: The international journal of research into new media technologies
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil
Edited by:
Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University)
Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen)
Important dates:
Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words).
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