[csaa-forum] John Urry Masterclass

[Gregory Noble]

The CRN Identities and Communities Node presents:

 

Complexities and Mobilities

 

a Masterclass with Professor John Urry

Department of Sociology & Centre for Mobilities Research 

Lancaster University

 

Two classes:

Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta,
April 24-5, 2007

OR

Flinders University, function room, Adelaide, 1-6pm Monday, May 2, 2007

 

 

 

The ARC Cultural Research Network Identities and Communities Node is
seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers who
wish to take part in one of 2 Masterclasses with Professor John Urry.
Each class will be limited to 20 participants who are engaged in
research relating to the theme of 'Complexities and Mobilities'.
Participants will be chosen based on a competitive application process.
The Masterclass will include a discussion of the work of Professor Urry
and presentations from participants. 

 

 

Theme: This Masterclass will examine recent developments in two areas
where Professor John Urry has been seeking to develop some new ideas for
'rethinking' the nature of social life. First, it will consider the
possible strengths of the complexity sciences for examining the nature
of 'social-and-material' systems conceived of as complex, adaptive and
co-evolving. This develops from Prof. Urry's 2003 book on Global
Complexity which sought to apply such notions to the 'global' and from
the Theory, Culture and Society special issue on the complexity turn
(2005). Second, we will consider one particular set of such systems,
that is 'mobility systems'. This discussion will draw from and develop
his writings on specific systems (see the co-edited Automobilities,
2005, with Mike Featherstone and Nigel Thrift), on social networks (see
Mobilities, Geographies, Networks, 2006), and on the more general
attempt to 'mobilise' the social sciences as in the forthcoming
Mobilities, 2007. 

 




Details

Cost:  The masterclasses are free of charge to successful applicants,
and include lunch and morning/afternoon teas. Participants travelling
from outside the city in which the class is held will be eligible for
travel and accommodation subsidies.

 

Applications are due by Monday 26th March, 2006.  Applications must
include a completed application form that includes a 250-word summary of
your research topic, highlighting links to the Masterclass theme, and a
one-page curriculum vitae. Application forms and further information are
available from Greg Noble at g.noble at uws.edu.au

 

John Urry

John Urry is Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University,
Lancaster. He was educated at Cambridge, with a BA/MA (double first) in
Economics and a PhD in Sociology. He has since worked at Lancaster
University where he has been Head of Department, Founding Dean of the
Social Sciences Faculty and University Dean of Research. He is also a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Founding Academician, UK Academy of
Social Sciences, Member (1992) and Chair RAE Panels (1996, 2001), and
has an Honorary Doctorate from Roskilde University. He has received
recent research funding from DTI Foresight Programme, Dept for Transport
(twice), EPSRC, ESRC, and the Forestry Commission. He has published c35
books and special issues, c100 refereed articles and c80 chapters in
books. His work is translated into 11 languages, and he has lectured in
c30 countries. His is currently Director of the Centre for Mobilities
Research at Lancaster that has extensive links throughout the world
relating to the study of physical movement and its interconnections with
the 'virtual' and the 'imaginative' (see 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/index.htm
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/cemore/index.htm> , and 
http://www.cemore.blogspot.com/ <http://www.cemore.blogspot.com/> ). 

 

Some recent books include Sociology beyond Societies, Routledge (2000),
The Tourist Gaze. Second Edition, Sage (2002), Tourism Mobilities.
Places to Play, Places in Play, Routledge (2004), Performing Tourist
Places, Ashgate (2004), Automobilities (2005), Mobile Technologies of
the City, Routledge (2006), Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006),
Mobilities, Polity (2007).

 
Dr Greg Noble
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Languages
University of Western Sydney
Bldg C - Penrith campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia
 
and
 
Centre for Cultural Research
Bldg EBa - Parramatta Campus
http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr
 
Tel  +61 2 9685 9634
Fax +61 2 9685 9610
 
Co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other
(Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)

 

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