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2005 Conference Program

 

Session

Chair

Speaker

Paper Title

1a

Automobilizing/

tourism

 

Kreuzer

Cars, Tourists and Road Networks in Austria before Mass Motorization

1a

Automobilizing/

tourism

 

U Fraunholz

Anti-automobile Protest in the German Kaiserreich

1a

Automobilizing/

tourism

 

R Vahrenkamp

Tourism as a Justification for the German Autobahn Project 1933-1939

1b

(Post-)Colonial T2M

 

V Gonzalez

From Colonial Arteries to Beaten Paths: Sightseeing on the Scenic Highway

1b

(Post-)Colonial T2M

 

J Vail

“All Roads Lead to Rome:  Processes of Hierarchy, Subsidy and Control in the Evolution of Empire”

1b

(Post-)Colonial T2M

 

N Starostina

Tourism and Re-Inventing French “Civilizing Mission”: On travel and the practice of the French empire in interwar years.

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 3

M Esbester

P Van Heesvelde

‘A Rolling Life” – Gustaaf Vermeersch and the Belgian State Railways.’

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 3

M Esbester

S Major

‘Personal Mobilities, Place and Identity: a Study of the Effect of a New Railways on a Rural Area of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1830-1900, using a Geographical Information System (GIS)’

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 3

M Esbester

T Strangleman               

‘A Culture in Decline? Railway Workers & the Erosion of Work Identity’

1d

Urban transport

H. Trischler

D Peters

The (Failed) Renaissance of Rail Transit in Los Angeles since in the 1980s – How and Why L.A. Decision-Makers Misinterpreted History.

1d

Urban transport

H. Trischler

B Pietrykowski

Accidental Tourism: Detroit’s People Mover and Industrial Ruins

1d

Urban transport

H. Trischler

N. Barbopoulos/

P Baltas/D Milakis

The impacts of rail transit on urban sprawl and mobility of the western city from late ninetieth century to the Second World War.

2a

Tourism: places, forms, times

 C.Mulley

P Lyth

Selling history: ‘ brown signs’, heritage and the growth of the British tourist industry

2a

Tourism: places, forms, times

 C.Mulley

J Stanley

‘I wanted to see the world – and I did’: how ships’ stewardesses appropriated mobility 1919-1939

2b

Mobilizing Railway History 4

B Schmucki

D Drummond

‘“For the Ladies”: Railway Company Advertising and the Woman Train Passenger in the UK and USA, 1890-1965.’

2b

Mobilizing Railway History 4

B Schmucki

V Fraser

‘Women and Men in Railway Publicity: The Ideological Representation of Railways as a Gendered Technology, 1945-1960.’

2b

Mobilizing Railway History 4

B Schmucki

M Ritchie 

‘In Hell they’ll roast ye like a herrin”: travel conditions for cured herring barrels and contract workers of the British herring trade, 1900-1950.’

2c

(Post-)Colonial T2M

J. Oliva

T Ayoola

The Colonial Office and the Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation 1949-1955

2c

(Post-)Colonial T2M

J. Oliva

OO Olubomehin

Transportation and the Tourism Industry in Nigeria: Problems, Challenges and Prospects, (1980 – the Present)”

2c

(Post-)Colonial T2M

J. Oliva

B Odumosu

TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT AS A CATALYST FOR TOURISM GROWTH OF DURBAR FESTIVITIES IN KANO CITYNIGERIA

2d

Automobilizing/tourism

M.Walsh

M Bonino/

M Moraglio

To the sea! – The motorway from Turin to Savona between industrial development and mass tourism.

2d

Automobilizing/tourism

M.Walsh

F Paolini

 

Discovering Italy by Car. The Car ‘ Boom ‘ and the Beginning of Mass Tourism in Italy (1946-1974)

2d

Automobilizing/tourism

M.Walsh

L Hall

‘The Unsung Song of the Overland’: Motor touring in Australia 1925-2004

1a

Railways

 

M Merger

I Anastasiadou

The Rise and Fall of International Railway Organizations: changes in the international railway regime in 19th and 20th century Europe .

1a

Railways

M Merger

JSchimmelfennig

The South Eastern and Chatham Railways Managing Committee – A Case for Vertically-Integrated Regional Duopolies?

1a

Railways

M Merger

 T Cornillie

Sites of change : the Form and Function of Industrial Transformation

1b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

H Wolter

S Albrecht

“Fly away”

1b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

H Wolter

 D Light

Tourism promotion, Identity and Ideology in Socialist Romania.

1b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

H Wolter

 A Mihaylova

Tourism in socialist Bulgaria

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 1

M Taylor

D Drummond

‘Railways and British Imperialism: “Spreading Britishness Abroad?”

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 1

M Taylor

G Dinhobl

‘From Imperial to National?: The Railway History of Austria.’

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 1

M Taylor

I Carter

‘Tracks to a Different Future – the New Zealand Case.’

1c

Mobilizing Railway History 1

M Taylor

I Kerr

‘Imperialism, Nationalism and a Critique of Modernity.  Gandhi and the Railways of India.’

1d

Urban transport

B Schmucki

 Y Tütün

The Ottoman Experience of Urban Mobility: Modern Transportation Vehicles in Istanbul (1820-1923)

1d

Urban transport

B Schmucki

M Schiefelbusch/ , J Schmithals

Moving the Masses Transport and mobility at large social gatherings. The Berlin experience

2a

Railways

T Cornillie

M Esbester

“Those who ride may read”: Guidebooks & Railway Travel in Britain, c.1830 – c.1860.

2a Railways

T Cornillie

P Pacey

Railway Holidays

2b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

HL Dienel

K Taylor

On the Road: Youth and Travel in Socialist Bulgaria

2b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

HL Dienel

H Wolter

“The future bilaterale and multilaterale cooperation …”. The conference of state-controlled elements for tourism in socialist countries.

2b

Tourism in Central and East European Dictatorships

HL Dienel

D Seidenglanz

Railway transport and the development of tourism in the Czech Republic (history, the present and future)

2c

Mobilizing Railway History 2

J Murdoch

M Cooper

‘Railway Museums in Brazil: From Public Technology to Private Memory.’

2c

Mobilizing Railway History 2

J Murdoch

R Lee

‘Assessing Applications for World Heritage Status for Railway Sites: Some Reflections’

2d

Urban transport

B Pietrykowski

CH Chu / B Ma

Tramline as an Urban Design Element : The Case in Honk Kong

2d

Urban transport

B Pietrykowski

J Chung

IDENTIFYING THE LEGIBILITY OF THE ROADSCAPE IN MOTION

2d

Urban transport

B Pietrykowski

N Crean

MOBILITY AND JAPANESE URBAN RAIL: WHEN MANNERS MATTER

Railways

P. van Heesvelde

G Rhys

TOURISM AND SOCIETY IN THE RAILWAY AGE: MID-WALES 1850-1870

Railways

P. van Heesvelde

E Sibul

The Kangozen Electric Railway

Railways

P. van Heesvelde

L Tissot

The creation of alpine tourism: the role of mountain railways (1880-1950)

Automobilizing/tourism

M Esbester

F Schipper

‘You too can be like us’: Americanising the Post-War European Road Network

Automobilizing/tourism

M Esbester

SY van der Wal

Evolutionary developments in car technology

Automobilizing/tourism

M Esbester

M Moguen-Toursel

ROAD SAFETY AS A STAKE FOR INDUSTRIAL STRUGGLES ON COMMUNITY LEVEL (1965-1980)

Space and the Motivation for Leisure Mobility

M. Flonneau

G Heinickel

 Change and Continuity in the Perception of the Spatial Features of Berlin and Brandenburg 1800-1900

Space and the Motivation for Leisure Mobility

M. Flonneau

L Hempel

 From Pilgrimage to Tourism: The Perceptions of Contrasting Landcapes on the Grand Tour of English Nobility

Space and the Motivation for Leisure Mobility

M. Flonneau

HL Dienel

 Spatial Partnerships between Agglomerations and Tourist Resorts: a Historic Approach and a Tool

Theories and Lanscapes

V. Guigueno

H Weber

On the move“ without moving: The 20th century Culture of Anytime, Anywhere

Theories and Landscapes

V. Guigueno

G Revill

The River Trent: mobility, engineering and the landscape of 18th century ‘improvement’.

Tourism: places, forms, times

J Murdoch

M Gigase

Technological transfer and tourist development: the steamboat case on Lake Geneva (1823-1873)

Tourism: places, forms, times

J Murdoch

LH Humair

Technology transfer and tourism development : the first Swiss funicular between Lausanne and Ouchy (1856-1879)

Packaging tourists

P. Lyth

C Kopper

The commercial breakthrough of the package tour in Post World War II Germany

Packaging tourists

P. Lyth

C Mulley

Motorised bus transport:  The origins and early development of excursion and tours services in the UK

Packaging tourists

P. Lyth

M Walsh

Democratising Tourism – Packaging Bus Excursions and Tours in the United States, 1920- 1955