Localities through Mobility. Cultures of Motorway in Contemporary Europe: session/sesja 2

11.06.2014: International Conference on Localities through Mobility. Cultures of Motorway in Contemporary Europe organized by the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Conference funded by NCN as a part of Moving Modernization project. Conference helded in KontenerArt -Mobilne Centrum Kultury in Poznań.

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SESSION TWO/SESJA DRUGA

1.Jędrzej Burszta: Challenging the Hegemony of Car Culture. The Road as Cultural Landscape in the United States

Bio: University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw. Jędrzej Burszta has a master in cultural studies (2011, Institute of Polish Culture) and American studies (2013, American Studies Center) from the University of Warsaw. Now he is a PhD student at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw. His fields of interest include: American studies, anthropology of mobility, theory of cultural studies, ethnography, and science fiction studies.



2. Łukasz Kaczmarek: Ethnography of Crossborder Suburbanisation and Categories that Failed. Border, Motorway and Social Mobility in Szczecin Outskirts

Bio: Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Łukasz Kaczmarek is an anthropologist interested in social mobility, imaginaries and power relations. He has conducted research on plural society and identity constructing in Fiji (2000-2005, Kaczmarek 2008), and research dedicated to post-colonial society power relations and social mobility in Jamaica (2009-2012) as well as with Paweł Ładykowski on a resurgence of Polish-German borderland (2009-2013).



3. Dawid Krysiński: The “symbiosis” of a private vehicle and a private life. Reflections about the role of the car in Poland

Bio: Department of Sociology, University of Wrocław



4. Discussion