Students and faculty will be presenting short mini-presentations on their summer research activities and observations.

The 'migration crisis' in contemporary Europe has received substantial attention from academics, policy makers and the general public. In this talk, I argue that the interest in numbers, flows and routes of people seeking sanctuary in Europe has diverted attention from another, substantial crisis: the crisis of belonging. By focusing on the practices and experiences of belonging, I show how formal belonging is being undermined in contemporary Europe and discuss the broader implications for this for people who seek to call Europe home.

Sid Dobrin is Department Chair at the University of Florida and Director of the TRACE Institute. He is the author and editor of Postcomposition, Writing Environments, Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology, and numeours other books, articles, and chapters. 

Ed Finn is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. He is the author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press, spring 2017) and co-editor of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds (MIT Press, spring 2017) and Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow, 2014).

Gillian Rose is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of Feminism and Geography (Polity, 1993), Doing Family Photography (Ashgate, 2010) and Visual Methodologies (Sage, fourth edition 2016), as well as a many papers on images, visualising technologies and ways of seeing in urban, domestic and archival spaces. Her current research interests focus on contemporary digital visual culture and on so-called 'smart cities'. She is leading the ESRC-funded project Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes; her particular interest is how digital visualisations of many kinds operationalise smart cities (SCiM-MK.org). She also curates the digital | visual | cultural series of events (dvcultural.org). Gillian’s webpage is at http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/grose.html; she blogs at visual/method/culture and can be found on Twitter @ProfGillian. 

Cyrus Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica and the author of The Internet of Elsewhere. He is also a radio producer and has reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, The Economist, Wired, The New York Times, and others.

Shannon Mattern is a Professor of Media Studies at The New School. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Mapping the Media City; and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press. She contributes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures to Places, an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape, and she collaborates on public design and interactive projects and exhibitions. You can find her at wordsinspace.net.