Forthcoming Conferences – Calls for Papers
Structuring new automotive industries, restructuring old automotive industries and the new geopolitics of the global automotive sector.
20th Gerpisa International Colloquium, Krakow 30.05 – 01.06.2012
Deadline for sending the proposals: 29 February, 2012
The current restructuring of the global automotive industry is being driven by extremely rapid changes in the global geography of related production, marketing and (increasingly) design activities. The changes have had variable effects at different stages of the value chain; for different companies; and in different countries or regions worldwide.
Fundamentally, they all involve interlinked processes corresponding to the structuring of new automotive industries that are more or less autonomous in comparison with their predecessors – as well as restructuring actions that affect the older automotive industries and are uneven both in terms of their form and magnitude. As part of the new GERPISA International Research programme that is currently being developed and to prepare the opening of GERPISA’s 20th International Conference, we would like to invite social science researchers with an interest in the automotive industry to reflect upon this dual structuring/restructuring process.
More specifically, we are calling for empirical and/or conceptual studies focusing on the automotive industry’s new global geopolitical order and organised into seven main themes:
- New kinds of mobility, new markets, new public policies;
- Managing innovation, technological change and new business models
- Manufacturer trajectories and strategies;
- Supplier trajectories and strategies;
- Emergence processes in the new automotive industries;
- Restructuring processes affecting the European, American and Japanese automotive industries;
- A new international division of labour and changes in employment relationships.
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Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) will hold its 19th Biennial Conference in The University of Western Sydney, 11 – 14 July 2012.
Now the Call for Papers is available and it encompasses also, for the first time, the topics of Transport, tourism and mobility. Call
ASAA seems a good opportunity to break academic fences, snoop Australasian studies and have a proper look at the Australian and Asian research landscape (especially about mobility field). So, from those points, it would be valuable to be there and take advantage of ASAA meeting.
Furthermore, as T2M we wish to tide stronger relationships with Australia, so we invite you to submit your application.
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Ninth Biennial Automotive History Conference
The 2012 Automotive History Conference continues the Society’s tradition of a biennial symposium of researchers and academic professionals who will present their recent work on the history of the motor industry, its products and their impact on social and cultural development. We will meet in Philadelphia at the Sheraton Suites Philadelphia Airport Hotel for two days of seminars focusing on the conference theme:A World of Cars: Manufacturers, Drivers and the Impact of Globalization – the international growth of the industry initially by North American, later by European and more recently by Asian manufacturers leading to the dominance of integrated multinational corporations. Papers will address the impact of the automobile in producer and non-producer nations and the influence of international developments on business policies and vehicle design.
The conference will include presentations by historians from American and foreign institutions. The final afternoon we will visit the Hagley Museum and Library, the original home of the DuPont Company, to inspect the historic gunpowder works where the business was founded. The concluding dinner will take place in the spectacular setting of the Simeone Foundation’s world-class racing sportscar collection. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Mira Wilkins, Professor of Economics at Florida International University. Professor Wilkins is a path-breaking scholar of international business. Her research on multinational corporations began with her much-acclaimed work on Ford Motor Company’s international business activities — American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents, published in 1964. She is the author of four additional books and multiple articles and essays on the history of international business and is currently working on a history of foreign investment in the United States.
Sessions will be held at the host hotel and a block of guest rooms has been established for reservation by participants. The conference promises to be an excellent opportunity for networking and professional development.
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Local and mobile: Linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media
From March 16-18 2012, the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) Program and the Mobile Gaming Research Lab at NC State University will be hosting the 3rd joint international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network and the Cosmobilities Network.
Invited keynote speakers:
· Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine)
· Rich Ling (IT University of Copenhagen)
· Teri Rueb (University of Buffalo, SUNNY)
Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Being interdisciplinary in its nature, Mobilities focuses on the systematic movement of people, goods and information that “travel” around the world in rates much higher (or much slower) than before. As such, mobility studies challenge traditional scholarship that often ignores the social dimensions of mobility, overlooking how travel, movement, and communication and transportation networks help to constitute modern societies and communities. Mobility has always been critical for the creation of social networks and to the development of connections to places. In addition, Mobilities contributes to study of the technological, social and cultural developments in transportation, border control, mobile communication, “intelligent” infrastructure, surveillance.
While mobility is an important framework to understand contemporary society, the pervasiveness of location-aware technology has made it possible to locate ourselves and be networked within patterns of mobility. As user generated maps and location-aware mobile devices become commonplace, we experience a shift in the way we connect to the internet and move through space. Networked interactions permeate our world. We no longer enter the internet–we carry it with us. We experience it while moving through physical spaces. Mobile phones, GPS receivers, and RFID tags are only a few examples of location-aware mobile technologies that mediate our interaction with networked spaces and influence how we move in these spaces. Increasingly, our physical location determines the types of information with which we interact, the way we move through physical spaces, and the people and things we find around us. These new kinds of networked interactions manifest in everyday social practices that are supported by the use of mobile and location-aware technologies, such as participation in location-based mobile games and social networks, use of location-based services, development of mobile annotation projects, and social mapping, just to name a few. The engagement with these practices has important implications for identity construction, our sense of privacy, our notions of place and space, civic and political participation, policy making, as well as cultural production and consumption in everyday life.
We invite papers that address themes at the intersection of mobility and location, or related topics, such as:
· Mobile communication and location awareness in everyday life practices;
· New urban spatialities developed with mobile gaming and locative social media;
· Privacy and surveillance issues as they relate to mobile and location-based social networks;
· Identity and spatial construction through locative media art / embodied performance;
· Civic engagement and political participation through mobile social media, new mapping practices and location-aware technologies;
· Borders, surveillance, and securitization with ubiquitous and mobile technologies;
· Aeromobilities, air travel, and aerial vision;
· Alternative mobilities and slow movements;
· Planning, policy and design for future mobilities and location-based services;
· Tourism, imaginary travel, and virtual travel;
· Transitions toward sustainable mobilities;
· New methodologies for mobilities research.
Disciplines represented at the conference may include (but are not exclusive to): Anthropology, Architecture and Design, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Communication, Criminology, Cultural Studies, Geography, Media and Visual Arts, Politics and International Relations, Public Policy, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, Tourism Research, Transport Research, and Urban Studies.
Conference location:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh (NC), USA
Important dates:
Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2011 (800 words, including references)
Conference Dates: 16-18 March 2012
Please submit your abstracts through the conference website: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/mobilities/
Programme du séminaire d’histoire de la mobilité
2011-2012
« Mobilité et démocratie »
Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Université Paris IV – Sorbonne
Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
Animé par le groupe P2M
Ce séminaire transdisciplinaire entre dans sa septième année d’existence1. Après s’être consacré à la généalogie du concept de mobilité en histoire et dans les sciences sociales et avoir engagé une réflexion épistémologique à la lumière de courants de recherche contemporains, le séminaire poursuivra son travail cette saison en proposant d’aborder le thème de la démocratie.
Il s’agira d’apprécier, à la lumière d’analyses historiques et d’études contemporaines, les relations entre les sphères politiques et techniques et celles des utilisateurs des systèmes de mobilité. Les décisions seront interrogées, l’influence des images sociales sera jaugée et différents vecteurs de diffusion populaire des objets de mobilité seront identifiés. Des questionnements transversaux aux questions de mobilité seront également abordés, dans leur rapport à la démocratie : énergie, choix de développement…
Chaque séance comporte une présentation générale de l’actualité du champ de recherche puis une ou plusieurs interventions de conférenciers invités, suivies de questions.
Ce séminaire universitaire s’appuie sur un réseau de partenaires du monde de la mobilité (musées, administrations, entreprises…). Il accueille tous les publics : étudiants, chercheurs, experts…
Dates des séances
1. Jeudi 22 septembre, 13h00-16h00 : Séance inaugurale
Mathieu Flonneau (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Arnaud Passalacqua (Université Paris Diderot) : « Problématique générale et introduction »
Maison de la Recherche (28, rue Serpente – 75006 Paris)
2. Jeudi 13 octobre, 9h30-16h30 – sur inscription : « Archives de la mobilité, cas d’étude »
Sylvie Le Clech et son équipe (Archives nationales-Fontainebleau)
Camille Henri (Université Paris Est, La Poste) : « Itinéraire d’un chercheur dans les Archives
1 Les trois premières années ont donné lieu à une publication : Flonneau (M.) & Guigueno (V.), De l’histoire des transports à l’histoire de la mobilité ?, Rennes, PUR, 2009, 332 p. nationales de Fontainebleau »
Discussions autour de l’ouvrage Le Grand Dessein parisien de Georges Pompidou Archives nationales – site de Fontainebleau
Navette gratuite : rendez-vous à préciser
3. Jeudi 10 novembre, 9h00-18h00 – sur inscription : « L’automobile populaire »
Atelier du CCFA/Paris I CCFA (2, rue de Presbourg – 75008 Paris)
4. Jeudi 8 décembre, 13h00-16h00 : « Les systèmes de transport, objets
démocratiques ? »
Florence Rudolf (Université de Strasbourg) autour de Le tramway dans la ville : le projet urbain négocié à l’aune des déplacements
Benoît Demongeot (LET) : « Le tramway, une solution d’action publique ? »
Maison des Sciences Économiques de Paris I (106-112, boulevard de l’Hôpital – 75013 Paris), salle 2
5. Jeudi 12 janvier, 14h00-18h00 : « Les associations d’usagers des services en réseaux : médias et international. Le cas des transports et des télécommunications »
Journée commune avec l’ANR Resendem animée par Léonard Laborie (CNRS) Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS (20, rue Berbier du Mets – 75013 Paris)
6. Jeudi 2 février, 13h00-16h00 : « Énergie et mobilité »
Alain Beltran (CNRS) : « L’essor de la distribution de carburants automobiles en France dans les années 1960/1970 »
Jean Varlet (Université de Savoie) autour de l’Atlas des transports Maison des Sciences Économiques de Paris I (106-112, boulevard de l’Hôpital – 75013 Paris), salle B3-1
7. Jeudi 1er mars, 13h00-16h00 : « Les coûts de la mobilité »
Anne Conchon (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Yves Crozet (Université Lyon II Lumière)
Lieu à précise
8. Jeudi 5 avril, 13h00-16h00 : «Mobilité, technique et développement »
Timothée Duverger (Université Bordeaux III)
Bruno Clémentin (La Décroissance)
Lieu à préciser
9. Jeudi 3 mai, 14h00-18h00 : « La mobilité exposée »
Pierre Duconseille (Universcience) (sous réserve)
Visite de l’exposition Des transports et des hommes
Discussions autour de la conférence T2M Transport and mobility on display
Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, 30 avenue Corentin Cariou – 75019 Paris (sous réserve)
10. Jeudi 7 juin, 13h00-16h00 : « Tourisme et mobilité »
Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Université Paris III – Sorbonne nouvelle)
Célia Forget (Université Laval), « Le camping-carisme, entre tourisme et mode de vie en Amérique du Nord »
Maison de la Recherche (28, rue Serpente – 75006 Paris)
Contact : arnaud.passalacqua[@]m4x.org
Models of Mobility
Systemic Differences, Path Dependencies, Economic, Social, and Environmental Impact (1900 to tomorrow)
March 23 – 24, 2012
Workshop at York University
Conveners: Matthias Kipping (Schulich), Christina Kraenzle (CCGES), and Christina Lubinski (GHI)
A workshop organized jointly by the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington DC, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), and the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto
Call for Papers
There are continuing debates about the best ways to transport people and goods both over short and long distances in a world marked by population growth, increased urbanization, and – after a brief crisis-induced hiatus – growing trade flows. These concern both the developed economies, which struggle to modernize and integrate their aging infrastructures and reduce the environmental, social, and economic cost of mobility, and the emerging economies that often have to build new transportation systems from scratch trying to accommodate rapid growth and changing user preferences.
Building on previous efforts by the CCGES focusing on ‘automobility’, this workshop tries to put these debates into a broader historical and comparative context by looking at the way different models of mobility emerged and developed in Europe and North America since 1900. The beginning of the 20th century was chosen as the point of departure because at the time the existing water and railways started to be complemented and subsequently rivalled by motor vehicles, which were giving a new significance to roads, and by airplanes. The same period also saw the first establishment of large-scale urban transport networks.
The workshop intends to look in particular at how various actors, namely industry, users, and policy-makers shaped systems that differed along a number of dimensions, including, for example, public vs. private ownership and operation and individual vs. communal forms of transportation. It also wants to examine the extent to which these initial models might have created path dependencies in terms of technology, physical infrastructure, and cultural preferences that limited subsequent choices and, last but not least, to assess the economic, social and environmental impact these different models of mobility had then and continue to have now. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion among practitioners about possible future scenarios both in developed and emerging economies.
Those interested in presenting a paper at this workshop should send a 1,000-word abstract and a one-page CV to Baerbel Thomas by September 30, 2011. Papers with an international and/or comparative dimension are particularly encouraged. Decisions will be announced by November 30, 2011 and full papers need to be completed by January 31, 2012. The organizers will pay the cheapest possible airfare and local costs for all participants.
Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, York, UK
RESEARCH WORKSHOPS 2011-12
Autumn Term
14.00 Wednesday 12th October 2011
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF INDIAN AND AMERICAN RAILWAYS
Vijaya Singh (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla)
‘Intruding upon the stationary: the journey of a thousand miles and thousand looks’
Paul Young (University of Exeter)
‘Envisioning investment: British speculation in American railways, 1865-1914′.
Friday 14th-Saturday 15th October 2011
LTC ROLT
Joseph Boughey (IRS&TH)
‘From transport’s Golden Age to Tourist Gaze: Rolt, authenticity and environment’
Mark Baldwin (Independent Scholar)
‘Miles better than Smiles: the engineer as author’
David Gwyn (Govannon Consultancy)
‘Tortillard pour Tywyn: Tom Rolt and Wales’
George Revill (Open University)
‘Tom Rolt’s High Horse: ecological visions and the origins of railway preservation ‘
This workshop will be held in Tywyn, headquarters of the Talyllyn Railway. A special vintage train will run on the Saturday as part of the event. A registration fee of £80 (£60 if booked before 1st September 2011) applies. For a registration form, please go to http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs/irshome/news/roltregistration.pdf .
NB This workshop is almost fully booked; owing to staff holidays, we shall not be able to confirm, or otherwise, any further registrations until early September. Applications will be dealt with strictly in order of receipt.
14.00 Wednesday 7th December 2011
RAILWAY LABOUR
George Revill (Open University)
‘Unpacking Schivelbusch’s ‘Machine Ensemble’: railway work and the objectification of technology’
Bobbie Oliver (Curtin University, Perth)
‘Amalgamation in Australian railway unions: cause and effect’
The workshops on 12th October and 7th December are free of charge and will take place in the Edmondson Room of Search Engine at the National Railway Museum. The NRM is about three minutes’ walk from the railway station, using the footbridge. Please use either the City or Car Park entrances and tell the staff at the welcome desk that you are attending the workshop. Please note that NRM car parking charges (£9 per day or part thereof) apply. Free disabled parking is available near the public entrances.
These workshops are financed by the National Railway Museum; the LTC Rolt workshop is additionally supported by the Narrow Gauge Railway Trust and the Talyllyn Railway.
Call for Papers, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG) 2012
New York, February 24th – 28th 2012
Cultural and Historical Geographies of Intra-Urban Mass Transit
Session organisers: Richard Dennis (Geography, University College London (UCL), UK); Carlos Galviz (currently Institute of Historical Research, London; from October, Geography, Royal Holloway, London); Sam Merrill (Geography, UCL).
The aim of this/these session(s) is to explore experiences of planning, building, operating, riding and in other ways using, representing and memorialising urban public transport systems, including buses, streetcars, elevated, subway/underground and rapid transit, over the past two centuries. The stimulus comes from the approaching 150th anniversary – early in 2013 – of the opening of the first section of the London Underground; but in extending the scope of this session to cover major transit networks worldwide, both historically and contemporarily, we hope it will be possible to develop comparative perspectives on intra-urban mobility across time and space.
There are slightly different languages of public transport on either side of the Atlantic, and the list of topics below reflects this ambiguity. Where we use ‘transit’, we use it in the mainly North American sense to refer to ‘public passenger transport’ as opposed to any form of personal or private movement around the city. There is also a potential ambiguity around the term ‘public transport’: ‘public transport’ can be owned or operated by private companies, as it was in most places in the nineteenth century and as it has become in programmes of privatization in recent decades. In fact, this is one aspect of the ‘politics of public transport provision’ that we would hope to cover in the session(s).
Among the themes on which we would welcome papers are:
conceptualising metropolitan transit
- cartographies of transit
- politics of public transport provision
- cultures of transport technology
- representations of metropolitan public transport in literature, art, photography, and film
- public transport as a cultural landscape
- public, private and institutional memory and memorialisation of public transport
- public and private space on public transport
- the city viewed from and experienced through its public transport
- surveillance and security on public transport
- non-transit uses of the spaces of mass transit
On all these topics we would be interested in comparative papers – across time, modes of transport, or between cities – as well as papers that focus on particular places, spaces or times.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 7th 2011.
Abstracts and inquiries can be sent to r.dennis@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Richard Dennis
Professor of Human Geography
UCL
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7563
email: r.dennis@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Call for contributions from young researchers!
The making of movement “Young Researcher” Prize
What is it that drives public action on urban mobility?
The Making of Movement – research programme and international conference: Paris, spring 2012
▪ What expression of the stakeholders’ interests, what representations of the city, of sustainable development, of public action, or values… reveal the processes underlying conflict? How did the problem emerge into the public arena? Who are the social stakeholders involved? How did it come onto the media and/or political agenda? What are the “arenas” in which these debates and public conflicts take place? What projects/megaprojects/fetish objects are at the centre of the debate? Around which questions do conflicts of ideas and/or interests emerge? What arguments are brought to bear? By whom? In the name of what values or visions of the urban order? According to what references to other places (models of cities, imported ideas, etc.)?…
▪ Contributions will retrace the history of a controversy. They may pertain to different and multiple disciplines: urbanism, planning, urban sociology, sociology of public problems, sociology of public action, transport and mobility engineering, discourse analysis, moral and political anthropology, etc.
▪ The call for contributions is addressed to researchers under the age of 35 holding or working towards a doctorate.
Deadline for proposal submissions: September 15, 2011.
The Scientific Committee will award the prize for the best contribution.
▪ Respond: www.movemaking.com/welcome/
First International Congress of Eurasian Maritime History: Turkish Maritime History
Piri Reis University has decided to hold the First International Congress of Eurasian Maritime History, which will convey our Turkish maritime heritage to future generations by bringing together the contributions of international and Turkish historians.
Place: Istanbul between 5 and 9 November 2012.
The 2012 Congress seeks to emphasize the international, transnational and global character of the Turkish maritime history of the Black Sea, the Turkish Straits, the Agean and the Mediterranean Seas, the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Emphasis will also be given to their relevance to Seljukids, and Ottoman eras, until the end of the 19th century.
The Organising Committee invites proposals for sessions that address any issue such as naval, technical, and economic aspects of maritime history, listed in the Appendix, within the above mentioned scope and related areas and relations. The Congress has a special goal as to achieve the results of the relation between maritime and global history.
The contributions based on newly explored historical documents and subjects are most welcome, and will be given priority in the Congress Program.
The Congress will consist of plenaries and sessions and as well as poster presentations.
We welcome the submission of -250- word abstracts for papers and poster presentations that broadly address the congress themes. The deadline for submission is 28 October 2011.
Web site : http://congress2012.pirireis.edu.tr