Mattering presence

Seminar 

Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) has undertaken a methodological project that explores how being present with others and attuning ourselves to shared practices can serve as sources of scientific knowledge. This approach often resonates with researchers who immerse themselves in embodied activities, practices, and skills by becoming practitioners themselves.

With an ethnomethodological perspective, Wagner investigates how embodied practices shape our feelings and interactions with unfamiliar others in our immediate environment—focusing specifically on the context of long-distance train travel. In this seminar, she looks forward to discussing whether, and in what ways, this kind of attunement aligns with the work of other participants.

This seminar is held on Zoom and open to the public.

Related reading 

• Lauren Wagner: Encounters in Motion: Being Present with Others in Long Duration Train Travel (Mobility Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2025)
• Lauren Wagner: Attention and attunement (Medium)

Lauren Wagner

Lauren Wagner is a post-disciplinary social scientist, with roots in sociology, anthropology, geography and sociolinguistics. Wagner's research interest is in categorization and belonging, ethnomethodology and practice, migration and diaspora, leisure and consumption, and complexity and nonlinear dynamics. 

Lauren Wagner is currently in the Department of Technology and Society Studies at Maastricht University, and the Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development Research Group.

Link

https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65672976293?pwd=7HdyxIsioJmiNkK6II9hxSsGkckQ90.1

About the series

The seminar series Border Allies, Boundary Alliances is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES. 

Technical info 

If you want to ask questions or make comments, please use a headset with a microphone. In addition to the link above, you can participate by calling in, please write to Mia Krokstäde at mia [dot] krokstade [at] cors [dot] lu [dot] se (mia[dot]krokstade[at]cors[dot]lu[dot]se) for information on this.