1. Technology, Mobility and Sociality: Leisure Travel and Social Relations in the Information Age Dr Jennie Germann Molz ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Mobilities Research/Sociology

2. PhD Thesis: Destination World: Technology, Mobility and Global Belonging in Round-the-World Websites How is the increasing convergence between travel and the Internet reconfiguring corporeal travel practices and patterns, reshaping social definitions of travel and affording new kinds of global belonging?

3. What I’m working on now … Journal articles and conference papers – ‘Fit to travel and travelling to fit: round-the-world travel and the cosmopolitan body’ – ‘Global abodes: mobility, technology and feeling at home in the world’ – ‘Time, timing and pace: temporal geographies of round-the-world travel’ – ‘Travels in the blogosphere: the material and virtual geographies of travel blogs’ – ‘”Let me stay” and “Welcome to my homepage”: mobile hospitality and the Internet’ MA module – SOCL 924: Technology, Mobility and Sociality New research – Leisure travel and social relations in the information age

4. NEW RESEARCH: Leisure travel and social relations in the information age Convergence between ICTs and travel Interactive travel and mobile sociality ‘travelblogging’ and ‘moblogging’

5. – Concepts of home and abroad – Global citizenship – Spatial configurations of sociality – Hospitality, hosts and guests What are the implications of the convergence between leisure travel and mobile communications technologies for:

6. Mobilising Hospitality: The ethics of social relations in a mobile world hospitality as an ethics for a mobile world cosmopolitan hospitality multiculturalism and postcolonial hospitality hospitality in cyberspace/hosting and information technologies hospitality, hostility and the inhospitable spaces and landscapes of hospitality economies of hospitality tourism hospitality intellectual hospitality within and across disciplines 26-27 September 2005Lancaster University Themes :

7. Contact details Dr Jennie Germann Molz ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow CeMoRe/Sociology County South B50 x94735 j.germannmolz@lancaster.ac.uk www.globalivity.com jennie@globalivity.com Office hours: Tuesdays 11-12.30