The Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University calls to an internationally anchored, critical-concerned conversation across professions and professional disciplines. To state that the world is facing challenges seems to be an understatement. Not since the Second World War has a totality of nations and continents been hit by so many challenges and crisis as now. The environmental, energy and ecological crisis has been building up over decades, but it’s coinciding with the global epidemics of Covid-19, the global refugee crisis, and now the war in Ukraine almost seems like the ‘perfect storm’. The facing of ‘wicked problems’ on an unpresented magnitude is a wake-up call not just for policy makers, business leaders, and the civil society. The global research communities are also called upon by these troubled times. Various forms of research that addresses such challenges - from the globe to the body - is highly needed. During this plethora of troubles, we find mobilities to be at the very heart of contestation and controversy. The sheer magnitude of moving of matter, goods, people, information, data, virus, weapons etc. should make it clear that we are facing serious global challenges. Next to this ‘hypermobility’ we are also facing problematic immobility or restricted mobility as for instance when humans are moving for survival but curbed on their mobilities due to ‘politicized forms of friction’. Keynote speakers: MIMI SHELLER, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTTE, US; ANTHONY ELLIOTT, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA and NIKOLAJ SHULTZ, COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY, DENMARK. Read more Sted Aalborg Dato 22/08/2024 Kursusdato 22/08/2024
