BACKGROUND The relations between mobilities and health have been considered to be a central feature of today's global society (Gatrell, 2011). Too much movement has often been attributed to various illnesses including bodily disruptions  such as seasickness and jet-lag as well as mental ill-health such as homesickness, phobias. However, travel is also seen as being 'good for the soul', part of quasi-spiritual quests to become more healthy in mind and body. Such human mobilities require healthy environments which are sustainable…

International conference of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme ‘On the Move: People – Objects – Signs’ at the University of Salzburg, 1–2 February 2019, Salzburg Deadline for the submission of proposals: 30 September 2018 Societies of late modernity are characterised by far-reaching social and cultural processes of change, which, through their interaction at the beginning of the twenty-first century, have triggered, accelerated, or fundamentally transformed a plethora of forms of movement. This conference will focus on dynamics among people, objects, practices,…