CoMoDe

We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Frauke Behrendt will be delivering the keynote lecture at the t2m Annual Conference in Leipzig in 2024. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection of mobility, sustainability, and digitalization.

Prof. Behrendt’s current research on social justice includes work with Mimi Sheller on Mobility Data Justice, and exploring the implications of AI for the governance of mobility. Current work on micro-mobility comprises Dutch, UK, South Korean, and Chinese case studies, alongside research on the electric mobility transitions in the Global South, specifically around motorbikes and rickshaws. Frauke Behrendt is also involved in ELEVATE project for which she led the funding application. This project explores micromobility in the UK, in collaboration with Leeds, Oxford, and Brighton University. Her previous research focussed on smart cycling, AI and digital/data society, the musical use of mobile phones, as well as sonic interaction design.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Agata Stanisz will join us at the t2m Annual Conference 2024 in Leipzig as the first keynote speaker. Prof. Stanisz will share her insights on the infrastructures in the Anthropocene.

Prof. Agata Stanisz is a socio-cultural anthropologist working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She is a field researcher, fieldrecordist, and methodologist in the trend of experimental ethnography. Her research interests are road studies/dromology, political ecology, environmental anthropology infrastructure and resistance studies. She researches infrastructural social protests, highways, expressways, but also forests and local roads. She traces their socioeconomic, political, visual and sonic dimensions and their relationship to the local management of natural resources. She has also conducted research among truck drivers in the context of European road transport and logistics regimes.

We invite applications for our Visiting Fellows Programme (f/m/d) in the framework of the research project “Contentious Mobilities: Rethinking Mobility Transitions through a Decolonial Lens (CoMoDe)”

Academic and non-academic applicants are welcome to apply for stays ranging from one to six months at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig. The fellowship scheme is administered by the IfL and financed by the Leibniz Association in the framework of its Junior Research Group programme.