SPINOFFS OF MOBILITY: Technology, Risk & Innovation
All Conference Meetings & Panels will be held in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), 33rd & Chestnut St., Philadelphia, unless otherwise noted
Program as 8th of September
| DAY 1 |
TIME |
PISB 120 |
PISB 108 |
PISB 106 |
PISB 104 |
| THURSDAYSeptember 18th |
9:00-12:00 |
Meeting of T2M Executive Committee |
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| 9:00-15:00 |
REGISTRATION OPEN IN ATRIUM OF PISB |
| Journal Editorial Board Meetings(staggered) |
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11:00-14:45Meeting of the Editorial Board of Transfers Journal |
12:00-13:30Meeting of the Editorial Board of T2M Annual Yearbook |
13:00-14:30Meeting of the Editorial Board of JTH |
| 13:00-14:45 |
Coffee Break in PISB Atrium |
| 15:00-16:00 |
CONFERENCE WELCOME in AUDITORIUM: Welcome Address: John Fry, President of Drexel University
Welcome Address: Dr. Donna Murasko, Dean of CoAS
Opening Remarks: Professor Hans-Liudger Dienel, President of T2M and
Professor Mimi Sheller, Chair of Local Program Committee |
| 16:00-17:20 |
PLENARY LECTURE 1:“Adapting Transportation to Global Risk Challenges” by Dr. Rae Zimmerman, Professor of Planning and Public Administration at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems, Introduced by Dr. Scott Knowles, Drexel University |
| 17:20-18:00 |
FREE TIME |
| 18:00-20:00 |
OFFICIAL RECEPTION in Paul Peck Building (32nd & Market St)Finger Foods & Drinks
Including Book Launch Announcements |
| DAY 2 |
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PISB 120 |
PISB 108 |
PISB 106 |
PISB 104 |
| FRIDAYSeptember 19th |
8:30-9:00 |
Coffee Service in PISB Atrium |
| 9:00-10:30 |
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PANEL 1Space Travel |
PANEL 2The Dialectic of Speed, Slow-ness & Waiting |
PANEL 3Urban Travel Experience, Place & Identity |
| 10:30-12:00 |
PANEL 4Airports and Aviation |
PANEL 5Global Ecology and Infrastruc-ture |
PANEL 6Automobilism and Risk Society |
PANEL 7The Wheel that Broke: Railways & the Great War |
| 12:00-13:30 |
BUFFET LUNCH IN ATRIUM |
| 13:30-14:50 |
PLENARY LECTURE 2:“Mobility and Everyday Encounters: Studying Segregation in the Age of Geospatial and Mobile Technologies” by Dr. Mei-Po Kwan, Professor of Geography at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and at Utrecht University, and editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Introduced by Dr. Mimi Sheller, Drexel University |
| 15:00-16:30 |
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PANEL 8Risk and the Unintended Consequences of Aviation Technology |
PANEL 9Failures, Debris and the Uncanny |
PANEL 10Mobility and Urban Spatial Structures |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Coffee Break in Atrium |
| 17:00-19:00 |
EXCURSION OPTION: Underground Philadelphia |
| OPEN EVENING |
See our guide to local restaurants, bars, & Friday Night Arts etc. |
| DAY 3 |
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PISB 120 |
Room 108 |
Room 106 |
Room 104 |
| SaturdaySeptember 20th |
8:30 -9:00 |
Coffee Service in PISB Atrium |
| 9:00-10:30 |
PANEL 11FREE MEETING TIME FOR ANY GROUPS |
PANEL 12Highways & Nations |
PANEL 13Safety Technology & Transport Planning |
PANEL 14Accidents & Security |
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10:30-12:00 |
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PANEL 15Traffic and Urban Mobility: Ancient to AR |
PANEL 16State Regula-tion & Transport Industries |
PANEL 17Global Imaginaries of High Speed Rail
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12:00-13:30 |
BUFFET LUNCH IN ATRIUM |
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13:30-15:00 |
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PANEL 18Big Infrastruc-ture Networks: Visions & Outcomes |
PANEL 19Exclusion & Mobility Crises |
PANEL 20‘Smart’ Technology & Connected Mobility |
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15:00-16:20 |
PLENARY LECTURE 3: “Whose Mobility? Sustainability & the Politics of Traffic Counting in the 20th C.” Dr. Ruth Oldenziel, Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, introduced by Dr. Kelly Joyce, Drexel University |
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16:20-17:00 |
Coffee Break in Atrium |
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17:00-19:00 |
Annual members meeting of T2M |
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19:00-21:00 |
CONFERENCE BANQUET IN BEHRAKIS GREAT HALL – CREESE BUILDING, ACROSS CHESTNUT ST. |
| DAY 4 |
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PISB 108 |
PISB 106 |
PISB 104 |
| SundaySeptember 21st |
9:00-10:30 |
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PANEL 21Mobility Justice and Sexual Mobilities |
PANEL 22Public Transit: Trams, Streetcars, Subways |
PANEL 23 Unexpected Technological (Dis)orders in Urban Mobility |
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10:30-12:00 |
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PANEL 24Frontiers of Mobility Studies: A Transfers Perspective |
PANEL 25Bike Sharing: Comparing Urban Cases |
PANEL 26Traffic, Safety & Health |
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12:00-1:00 |
Coffee Break in Atrium |
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1:00-3:00 |
OPTIONAL: Mural Arts Tour – America’s First Highway |
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12:30-3:00 |
Second Meeting of the Editorial Board of Transfers Journal (PISB 103) |
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PANELS
FRIDAY Sept. 19th
1. SPACE TRAVEL 9:00-10:30
Chair: Babak Ashrafi
Roger D. Launius: The Railroad and the Space Program Revisited: Historical Analogues and the Stimulation of Commercial Space Operations
Valerie Neal: Space Transportation: A Rhetoric of Routine, Research, Risk, and Renewal
Matthew H. Hersch: “Have Space Suit, Will Travel’: Clothing the Space Tourist,” 1955-2015
2. THE DIALECTIC OF SPEED, SLOWNESS & WAITING 9:00-10:30
Chair: Jim Cohen
Jim Cohen: The historical relativism of high speed on passenger railways, 1830-present
Robin Kellermann: Bus Stop, Platform, Departure Gate: A comparative assessment of transport ennvironments concerning the interrelations of speed and waiting
Peter Lyth: Afterburner glory: Concorde and rise and fall of supersonic travel
3. URBAN TRAVEL EXPERIENCE, PLACE & IDENTITY 9:00-10:30
Chair: Anna Lipphardt
Tomás Errázuriz: The Urban Travel Experience: A Time for Understanding our Environment
Maggie Griffith Williams: Place and im/mobilities among Chicago’s immigrant taxi drivers
Anna Danilova: Mobile Identity: Opportunities and Risks
William Drust: Location-Based Social Networks: Foursquare, Mobility, and the Social Expectations of Shared Space
4. AIRPORTS AND AVIATION 10:30-12:00
Chair: Tiago Saraiva
Ray Clark: An Airport Terminal Dilemma: Design for Passengers, Design for Airlines, or Design a Compromise
Bret Edwards: Global Mobility, Local Stasis: Refugees, the State, and the Struggle for Citizenship at Canadian Airports, 1976-1989
Markus Kari: Passenger Related Risks in Civil Aviation as an Object of International Law – Historical View
Weiqiang Lin: Aeromobilities and Climate Change: Disruptions and Responses in Asia
5. GLOBAL ECOLOGY & INFRASTRUCTURE 10:30-12:00
Chair: Chloe Silverman
Yusuf Umar Madugu: Transportation and Trade in Pre-colonial Kano
Amalia Cristovao dos Santos: Routes, roads, and rivers: the design of colonial Sao Paulo’s morphology through its communications
James Khamsi: Ecologies of Infrastructure / Ecologies of Urbanism
6. AUTOMOBILISM & RISK SOCIETY 10:30-12:00
Chair: Matthieu Flonneau
Matthieu Flonneau: Re-thinking Automobilism and Road Safety in France: a “counter-risk society”?
Fabrice Hamelin: Science and Road Safety Policies: a comparison between France and England
Fabian Kroger: Car accidents and crashes in French and US-film history
Pierre Lannoy: Securing transport/animals encounters, or how to distribute responsibilities for disturbed traffics
7. THE WHEEL THAT BROKE: RAILWAYS & THE GREAT WAR 10:30-12:00
Chair: Paul Van Heesvelde
Paul J.G.M.J. Van Heesvelde: Learned by experience or by the book? Military use of railways in Belgium 1835-1918
Albert Churella: The Case of the Colored Trainmen: World War I and Racial Justice on the American Railroads
Ralf Roth: On the Ways to War: The Role of the German Railways in Military Strategic Planning, 1830 to 1914
8. RISK & THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF AVIATION TECHNOLOGY 15:00-16:30
Chair: Robert van der Linden
Dominick A. Pisano Placing 9/11 in Historical Context: The Consequences of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Roger D. Connor: Boardwalk Empire of the Air: Aerial Bootlegging in Prohibition Era America
F. Robert van der Linden: Air Crimes and Air Travel: Aviation in the Age of Terrorism
9. FAILURES, DEBRIS, & THE UNCANNY 15:00-16:30
Chair: Irene Anastasiadou
James Longhurst: Spinning Off The Path: The Failed Dream of Bicycle Paths in the 1890s and the Unintended Spinoff of a Combined Transportation System
Julie Cidell: The uncanny railroad: Cities, suburbs, and the appropriate place and use of transportation infrastructure
Massimo Moraglio: Elapsed Mobilities. Technology Salvation, Debris and Benjamin’s Angelus Novus
10. MOBILITY & URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURES 15:00-16:30
Chair: Yvonne Michael
Steven Logan: The Unavoidable Incompleteness of Cities of Mobility: A Case Study of Willowdale, Toronto
Sabrina Harris: Sao Paulo Spatial Structure and Mobility 1997-2012 and Beyond: Transformation through Urban Policies
Andrey Kuznetsov & Ludmila Shaitanova: Marshrutkas: Spinoffs of Post-Soviet Urban Mobilities
Tarini Bedi Trans-Urban Imaginaries and Local Frictions: The Mumbai Taxi Trade/Singapore Style
SATURDAY, September 20th
11. FREE MEETING TIME FOR ANY GROUPS 9:00-10:30
12. HIGHWAYS & NATIONS 9:00-10:30
Chair: Mathieu Flonneau
Michael K. Bess: Get the Cows Off the Road! Public Safety, Right-of-Way, and the Creation of the Transit Police for Mexicos’s Highways, 1936-1955
Rosa Elena Ficek: The Pan American Highway: Transformations of a Technology of Integration
Dominic Longo: Pascal Constanzo and the Development of U.S. Highways 25-E
Olusa Oladipo Olubomehin: The Development of National Trunk Road System in Nigeria, 1960-2012
Lyubomir Pozharliev: Collectivity vs Connectivity: The techno-historical example of motorway peripherization in former Yugoslavia
13. SAFETY TECHNOLOGY & TRANSPORT PLANNING 9:00-10:30
Chair: Bruce Seely
Silke Zimmer: (Advanced) Driver Assistance Systems in History
Richard Harrison: Avoiding paralysis in the city: the role of professional conferences in the promotion of modern urban transportation systems in post-war Britain
Cheryl Deutsch: How the Lines Get Drawn: Social Science Research on the Origins of Metropolitan Transportation Planning
14. ACCIDENTS & SECURITY 9:00-10:30
Chair: Federico Paolini
Juhana Salojarvi: Steamboat accidents and the rules of the seas in the 19th century Finland
Norman Kellermann: Organising to prevent failures of a high reliability system – lessons from the Santiago de Compostela railway disaster
Victor Marquez: “Against the Mobility of Terror”. Have technologies and policies of counter-terrorism shaped transportation?
15. TRAFFIC & URBAN MOBILITY: ANCIENT TO A.R. 10:30-12:00
Chair: Thiago Allis
Cornelis Richard van Tilburg: Ancient Roman city gates: Hubs in a network
Thiago Allis / Carla Fraga / Sergio de Castro Ribeiro / Marcio Peixoto de Sequeira Santos: Rio de Janeiro in the era of mega-events: mobilities challenges and tourism development
Tristan Thielmann: Photo-auto guides: Wandering in augmented realities
16. STATE REGULATION & TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES 10:30-12:00
Chair: Peter Norton
Jorgen Burchardt: The role of history, culture, climate and geography – A comparison of transportation infrastructure development among countries
Sharon Babaian: Navigation Made Easy? The Promise and Perils of Electronic Navigation at Sea
Richard Vahrenkamp: Trucking in the Eastern Bloc – Why Failed Large Scale Trucking Enterprises?
17. GLOBAL IMAGINARIES OF HIGH SPEED RAIL 10:30-12:00
Chair: Max Bergman
Allen Batteau: Regional Imaginaries and Transportation Development
Maxime Huré and Fabian Kroger: Global Imaginaries of High Speed Rail
Mimi Sheller: Imagined, Experienced, and Built Railscapes on AMTRAK’s Northeast Corridor
Alessandro Tiberio: Longing for Home-Land: Taming High-Speed in a ‘Precarious’ Italy
18. BIG INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS: VISIONS & OUTCOMES 13:30-15:00
Chair: Ralf Roth
Ralf Roth: Up-rise and Decline of World’s Railways – A Bird’s Eye View of 200 Years Development of Big Infrastructure
Bruce Seely: The American Interstate Highway System as Infrastructure: A Model Case Study
James Schwoch: Border Patrols: Collapsing Boundaries and Constructing Surveillance
Bridget Wessels: Information Age travel: social media, social networks and transport networks
19. EXCLUSION & MOBILITY CRISES 13:30-15:00
Chair: George Ciccariello-Maher/Emmanuel Koku
Thomas J. Brinkerhoff: The Transatlantic Middle Passage: The Forced Migration of Bodies and the Making of a Modern Capitalist Order
Max Manfred Bergman / Z. Bergman / Gordon Pirie: Mobility in South Africa: From public access to exclusion
Daniel Olisa Iweze: Insurgency in the North-East of Nigeria and its Implications on the Inter-state and Trans-Border Mobility
Alejandro Rascovan: The Crisis of regional mobility and infrastructure between Argentina and Brazil
21. ‘SMART’ TECHNOLOGY & CONNECTED MOBILITY 13:30-15:00
Chair: Kristene Unsworth
Markus Edelman & Silke Zimmer: Autonomous Driving from the perspective of History and Technology Assessment – working report
Kathleen Oswald: A Brief History of Smart Transportation Infrastructure
Mark Barnes: Public Transit System Legacies and Uncertain Mobilities: A Case Study of Extreme Weather Management and Climate Change Adaption in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region
SUNDAY, September 21st
22. MOBILITY JUSTICE & SEXUAL MOBILITIES 9:00-10:30
Chair: Kelly Joyce
Peter F. N. Hörz: “I’m a modern nomad” Some anthropological remarks on the multi local lifestyle of gay escorts
Steven Losco: Headless Horsemen and Mobile Gay Men: The disciplining of masculinity on Grindr, Growlr and Scruff
Lisa Mercer: Riding Shotgun. Supporting Truck Drivers with a Method of Anonymously Reporting Incidents of Child Trafficking
Tamara Vukov: Strange Moves: Scattered Speculations on Mobility Justice
23. PUBLIC TRANSIT: TRAMS, STREETCARS, SUBWAYS 9:00-10:30
Chair: Linda Joyce Forristal
Robert W. Pfaff: Rubber Versus Rail: The Decline of Streetcars in Detroit, 1922-1956
Linda Joyce Forristal & Chih-Chien Chen: An observational study of Center City Philadelphia’s subway transit system
Fallon Samuels Aidoo: Preserving Critical Infrastructure for the Renaissance of Old Philadelphia: Track-by-Track, Termini-by-Termini, Junction-by-Junction, 1960-1970
24. UNEXPECTED TECHNOLOGICAL (DIS)ORDERS IN URBAN MOBILITY 9:00-10:30
Chair: Maximiliano Velasquez
Alejandro Crispiani & Tomás Errázuriz: Deconstrucing mobility: uncovering the paradigm after the crisis
Samuel Merrill: ‘Zurückbleiben bitte’: Murder, Thrill Seeking & Everyday Accidents on the Berlin S-Bahn
Dhan Zunino Singh: The auto-colectivo: innovating mobility technology from below (Buenos Aires, 1928-1938)
25. FRONTIERS OF MOBILITY STUDIES: A Transfers perspective 10:30-12:00
Chair: Gijs Mom
Gijs Mom: A Crisis of Mobility Studies? Prolegomena of Research Portfolios
Dagmar Schaefer & Stephanie Ponsavady: Moving Asia on the Move
Sunny Stalter-Pace, Heike Weber, Dorit Müller: Mobilities and Media
Georgine Clarsen: Settler Mobilities as a Distinctive Constellation of Mobility Practices
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga: Afro-Mobilities: A Route Towards All-Mobilities?
Mimi Sheller: Mobility Studies and Atlantic Histories
26. BIKE SHARING: Comparing Urban Cases 10:30-12:00
Chair: Thiago Allis
Thiago Allis: Economy booming, city congesting: Can a cycling culture emerge in São Paulo?
Leticia Lindenberg Lemos & Helio Wicher: Cycling infrastructure in Sao Paulo: Impacts of a leisure-oriented model
Katalin Toth: Free cycling for everyone? A critical view on the imaginations of the bike sharing system BUBI in Budapest
27. TRAFFIC, SAFETY & HEALTH 10:30-12:00
Chair: Ali Kenner
Per Lundin & Gustav Sjöblom: Mobilizing for traffic safety. The car-friendly society and the 1967 right-lane reform
Alison Kenner & Ami Diallo: Scaling Environmental Health Science: An Analysis of Traffic-Related Asthma Research
Anne Victoria: Bus Stop Matters
