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Les Roberts

Dr Les Roberts
BA (London) PhD (Middlesex)

Contact

Les.Roberts@liverpool.ac.uk

http://www.liminoids.com

+44 (0)151 794 3102 Ext. 43102

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Post-Pandemic Imaginaries: Culture, Space and Memory After Lockdown (Guild, University of Liverpool, 2024)
  • Doing and Undoing the Anthropology of Place in an Increasingly Digitalized World at Against Place: Spatial Anthropology and the Production of Dwellspace (European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference 2024, UNiversity of Barcelona, Spain, 2024)
  • Ethnography of (Im)Mobilities Summer School at Grounding the nomad: rethinking mobility through the lens of spatial anthropology, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, 2022)
  • Ethnography of (Im)Mobilities Summer School at Doing spatial anthropology: movement, rhythms, and the everyday poetics of space, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, 2022)
  • Territories, Environments, Politics, Explorations in Territoriology, online book launch at Territory Through Lache Eyes, by Invitation (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (via Zoom), 2022)
  • Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Seminar Series at Killing Space, Giving Life to Space: Interdisciplinary Excursions in Spatial Anthropology, by Invitation (RAI Zoom webinar., 2021)
  • Digital Memories: Art, Archives and Activism Conference (co-organiser) (University of Liverpool in London, 2019)
  • Eighth International Tourism and Media Conference (co-organiser) (2018)
  • Sites of Popular Music Heritage Conference (co-organiser) (2011)
  • Liminal Landscapes: Remapping the Field Conference (co-organiser) (2010)
  • Mapping, Memory and the City Conference (co-organiser) (2010)
  • City in Film: Architecture, Urban Space and the Moving Image Conference (co-organiser) (2008)
  • Mapping Music History: Travel and Tourism, School of Music, Liverpool, September 2017, by Invitation (2019)
  • Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, January 2020., Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2020)
  • I-Media-Cities Conference, Cinematek, Brussels, March 2019., Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2019)
  • Geomedia conference, Karlstad, Sweden, May 2019, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2019)
  • Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2017, by Invitation (2017)
  • Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Italy, May 2017, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2017)
  • Location London Conference, University of London/UCL, March 2014, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2014)
  • Cinematic Bologna Workshop, Urban Centre (Biblioteca Sala Borsa), Bologna, Italy, December 2012, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2012)
  • Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, July 2012, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (2012)

Editorships

  • Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (Editorial Board Member, 2012 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Programme Director - MA Digital Culture and Communication (Department, 2016 - present)
  • Department Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies (Department, 2019 - 2022)
  • Culture, Space and Memory Research Group Lead (Department, 2018 - present)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Higher Education Academy (Associate Fellow, 2015 - present)
  • (Institutional member, 2013 - present)