Symposium Programme
Full details including abstracts can be found → here
09:00-09:15
Arrival and registration
09:15-09:30
Acknowledgement of Country • Welcome and Introduction
09:30-11:00
Session 1: ai • robotaxis • futures • loopholes • fish vans
Technological mobility challenges
Marcia McKenzie, University of Melbourne, The mobilities of policy failure: Friction and controversial issues in education
Emma Quilty, Monash University, Smart mobilities in everyday life: Are we designing the future for Pod Man?
Tom Hawxwell, HafenCity University Hamburg, Future-making and the shifting sociotechnical imaginaries around urban mobility in the city of Hamburg
Thomas Birtchnell, University of Wollongong, Is it OK to Speed? Policy Loopholes in Mobility Systems
Maya Costa-Pinto, University of Melbourne, Fish Markets in Flux: Transnational Trajectories and Emerging Networks in Goa, India
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-13:00
Session 2: refuge • small towns • fault lines • ta-va • parking
Migration mobility challenges
Mireille Kayeye, The University of Melbourne, Creating Space for Women Seeking Asylum in Australia
Ash Alam and Etienne Nel, University of Melbourne and University of Otago, Regions (en)tangled: thinking through more-than-human small-town (im)mobilities
Yasmin Ortiga, Singapore Management University, Fault Lines: Fixing Migration Infrastructure for Internal Mobility
Ruth Faleolo, La Trobe University, Pasifika academics’ well-being challenges post-Covid-19
Farida Fozdar, Curtin University, Challenging mobilities: the securitisation of Muslims as an immobilising force – an Indonesian case study
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Session 3: jam • mess • sand dunes • colours
More-than-human mobility challenges
Kaya Barry, Griffith University, Deep weathering: Challenging ideas of growth and decay in farming landscapes
Willow Ross, University of Melbourne, Bringing 'shadow places' into the light: Dumpster diving and sticky networks of care
Vera Daniel and Michele Lobo, Deakin University, Breathtaking motorcycle mobilities with the Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh, India
Clare McCracken, RMIT University, Wild Country: the Ovens River
Peter Adey, Royal Holloway University of London, Title TBC
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:15
Session 4: drag queen • families • campuses • awkwardness
Work mobility challenges
Michelle Duffy and Kathy Mee, University of Newcastle, Shelita Buffet, Lulu the Horse and the Ghosts of Rawlinna: Mobile working on the Indian Pacific
Nancy Worth and Alkim Karaagac, University of Waterloo and Queen's University, Living in liminality: waiting, coping and planning with international student families
Lauren Rickards, Todd Denham, Lisa De Kleyn, La Trobe University, Research im/mobilities under climate change
Elizabeth Straughan, David Bissell and Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University, Working from home: workplace culture and feelings of awkwardness
17:15-17:30
Wrap up
