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SUMMARY:Transport\, mobility\, tourism: degrowth\, demobility\, sustainable development? Call
DESCRIPTION:International Colloquium in Université Lumière Lyon 2\, 24-27 November 2026 \nSupported by T2M  \n\n15ème édition du Colloque International pluridisciplinaire AsTRES \n\n\nRésumé : \n\n\nEn 1950\, on dénombrait 25 millions d’arrivées internationales contre 1\,5 milliard en 2024\, et ce chiffre ne prend pas en compte les touristes nationaux. Cette augmentation quantitative impressionnante témoigne des progrès et de la diversification dans le domaine des transports et des mobilités. En effet\, depuis la naissance du Grand Tour au XVIIe siècle\, le transport est fondamental voire même indispensable au secteur du tourisme (Tissot\, 2006 ; Bigras\, Dostaller\, 2013 ; Gay\, Mondou\, 2017). En effet\, les individus se déplacent pour se rendre à leur destination : le transport constitue un moyen pour atteindre un but (Bernier\, Gauchon\, 2006) et ses dessertes restent particulièrement discriminantes. En outre\, les transports peuvent eux-mêmes être apparentés à une forme de tourisme voire une destination (Stock\, 2015) : cyclotourisme (Bertho-Lavenir\, 1999)\, randonnée (Riffaud\, Le Roux\, Perera\, 2021)\, road-trip\, notamment en camping-car\, en caravanes ou en vans aménagés (Bourdeau\, Marcotte\, 2015)\, excursion fluviale (Damien\, 2001). Le tourisme a participé à renouveler l’utilité de certains modes de transport n’étant plus concurrentiels : les transatlantiques ont été réinvestis par la croisière lorsque le transport aérien leur a fait concurrence (Staszak\, Pieroni\, 2025)\, certains trains sont devenus légendaires comme l’Orient Express (Marchi\, 2008). Le transport s’appuyant sur des animaux a pu être réenchanté par le tourisme comme le montrent les randonnées en compagnie d’ânes\, de chevaux (Pickel-Chevalier\, 2022) ou de chiens de traîneau prônant une vision plus lente et écologique du déplacement. En ce sens\, ils intéressent particulièrement les anthropologues (Doquet\, Evrad\, 2008 ; Augé\, 2009) puisque le transport influence nos pratiques touristiques. Entre valorisation de la lenteur\, faisant du transport la destination\, ou au contraire valorisation de la vitesse et des prouesses techniques associées\, pour atteindre le plus vite sa destination sans perdre de temps dans les transports\, deux visions différentes du déplacement touristique sont désormais défendues\, et même s’opposent vivement comme le montre le flygskam (honte de prendre l’avion) et le tagskryt (fierté de prendre le train). Il y a un double mouvement : les technologies de la mobilité ont favorisé le tourisme – pensons aux vols charters – et le tourisme a stimulé et contribué à rentabiliser certains transports\, le ski\, autrefois mode de transport est désormais une pratique touristique. Le tourisme est aussi à l’origine de l’essor d’innovations dans le domaine des transports\, notamment pour les stations de ski et de montagne : c’est dans ces lieux qu’apparaissent les ascenseurs notamment dans les grands hôtels (Tissot\, 2004). Le tourisme a également pour conséquence – gastronomie\, souvenirs\, etc. – d’entraîner des transports de marchandise engageant une législation spécifique\, sources d’impacts multiples (économiques\, culturels\, politiques) à ne pas négliger. Depuis l’essor des télécommunications avec le numérique\, les mobilités et les transports sont régis par des algorithmes visant à optimiser nos déplacements (Safaa\, Oruezabala\, Bidan\, 2021). Il est presque impossible de se perdre désormais\, le GPS ayant détrôné la carte\, mais cela pose aussi des problèmes éthiques liés au suivi des données personnelles\, voire de changements de pratique touristique : quelle place pour flâner (la figure du promeneur\, du marcheur en ville)\, pour perdre son temps\, pour se perdre ? \n\n\nLes transports et leurs infrastructures – gare\, aérogare\, aire d’autoroute\, station de métro\, arrêt de tramway ou abribus – peuvent aussi être la source d’intérêt touristique\, déjà étudié par les architectes (Picon-Lefebvre\, 2019)\, lorsqu’ils sont patrimonialisés in situ (Ballot\, 2024) – comme par exemple le pont du Gard\, objet technique architectural et objet patrimonial pour touristes – ou bien lors d’une exposition muséale comme celle qui s’est tenue au Musée des Arts et Métiers de Paris « Permis de conduire ? » en 2022-2023. \n\n\nLe tourisme peut alimenter la stratégie de communication de certains groupes\, les valorisant tout en occultant certains aspects plus gênants\, liés à la destruction de l’environnement ou au passé colonial comme le montre l’exemple du musée Michelin à Clermont Ferrand n’abordant à aucun moment les plantations d’hévéas développées durant l’époque coloniale et les spoliations à l’œuvre (Panthou et Tran Tu Binh\, 2013). Le tourisme peut être une façon aisée de dépolitiser l’utilité de certains projets de transport\, comme la surveillance et la conquête militaire dans les musées de l’air et de l’espace\, où les prouesses techniques et les rares voyages dans l’espace sont particulièrement mobilisés (Cohen\, Spector\, 2019). \n\n\nLa thématique relative aux interactions entre transports\, mobilités et tourisme apparaît comme décisive à plusieurs niveaux. Le transport étant indispensable à l’épanouissement du tourisme\, comment évoluent les pratiques et les analyses entourant la décarbonation des transports\, la relative démocratisation de ces derniers\, les sites touristiques face aux initiatives de fermeture avec les approches de capacité de charge d’un lieu (calanques de Sugiton\, Venise\, Canigou…). \n\n\nDepuis plusieurs années\, avec l’essor du « Mobility Turn » (Flonneau\, Guigueno\, 2009 ; Baldasseroni\, Faugier\, Pelgrims\, 2024)\, il est question de s’intéresser aux usagers et aux usages et non plus seulement aux techniques que sont les divers types de transport et de favoriser l’approche plurimodale. Une réflexion s’engage lentement autour des « mobilités touristiques » (Guex\, 2017 ; CEREMA\, 2019 ; Tissot\, 2023 ; Faugier\, 2024 ; Faugier et Lucas\, 2025). L’accent est davantage mis sur l’intermodalité\, l’amoindrissement de la rupture de charge entre deux modes de transport et la plurimodalité et les acteurs du tourisme sont sommés de décarboner leurs voyages dans une perspective de développement durable (Orsi\, 2015 ; Simon\, 2026). \n\n\nAvec la loi d’orientation des mobilités en France (LOM\, 2019)\, la fin de la vente des véhicules thermiques\, la valorisation de transports peu carbonés\, l’essor des zones à faible émission (ZFE) dans les agglomérations\, l’encouragement et l’essor de la compétence mobilité sur l’ensemble d’un territoire telle une communauté d’agglomération incitent à des réaménagements des lieux touristiques\, autour de l’accès et de l’accessibilité\, à la réorganisation des circulations notamment les autocars touristiques. Cela suscite des contestations autour du bilan carbone des avions (Bazin\, Cousin 2023)\, ainsi que des bateaux de croisières\, même si la dépendance des touristes aux véhicules motorisés devrait également être interrogée. L’approche environnementale requestionne égament l’essor touristique et les transports opérant (Hagimont\, 2022). Se posent des questions relatives au droit des transports avec le low cost et l’ubérisation de la société (Bon-Garcin\, Bernadet\, Reinhard\, 2010 ; Combe\, 2019 ; Association des doctorants en droit public de l’Université de Lyon\, 2023) et l’augmentation des contentieux\, notamment autour des plans locaux d’urbanisme\, avec par exemple les stations de ski (Sulpice\, 2025). S’il y a une éducation au voyage (Peyvel\, 2016 et 2019)\, elle passe prioritairement par une éducation aux transports (Francon\, 2001) qu’il faut peut-être repenser pour un tourisme durable et une décroissance des mobilités (Berlan\, Carbou\, Teulières [dir.]\, 2022). \n\n\nCette nécessité d’une approche élargie pour étudier les liens entre le tourisme et les transports est l’objectif de la 15e édition du colloque international d’AsTRES. Ce colloque s’appuiera sur des communications de diverses disciplines (aménagement\, géographie\, gestion et management\, histoire\, sciences économiques\, sociologie\, urbanisme) et sur des approches de praticiens (acteurs du tourisme\, politiques\, associations…). Plusieurs pistes de réflexion s’imposent à nous. Différents enjeux pourront être abordés tels que : \n\n\n– les impacts de la gratuité des transports sur les mobilités touristiques (Observatoire des villes du transport gratuit\, 2022) ; \n\n\n– les lieux touristiques au prisme de leur accès (capacité de charge\, QR code\, portiques…) ; \n\n\n– les relations entre tourisme durable et démocratisation des transports ; \n\n\n– les évolutions d’accessibilité des lieux aux personnes en situation de handicap physique ou mental (Perrin\, Soulé\, Boutroy\, 2021) \n\n\n– l’évolution des cadres juridiques entourant le marketing et la communication des transports et des mobilités touristiques ; \n\n\n– les imaginaires des transports au regard de ceux de la filière touristique ; \n\n\n– la patrimonialisation des transports comme produits touristiques ; \n\n\n– les impacts des accidents et actes de terrorisme sur le transport touristique ; \n\n\n– les rapports entre touristes et habitants au sein des transports et dans leurs pratiques de mobilité ; \n\n\n– les conséquences des ruptures de charge et de l’intermodalité dans le trajet des touristes ; \n\n\n– les rapports vitesse\, accélération\, lenteur et déplacements dans l’appréhension du voyage touristique (micro-aventure ; slow tourism) ; \n\n\n– les rôles et influences des infrastructures de transport (port\, aéroport\, aire d’autoroute\, arrêt de bus\, gare\, zone piétonne\, piste cyclable…) ; \n\n\n– les effets bénéfiques et néfastes du numérique sur les mobilités touristiques ; \n\n\n– les réussites et les difficultés autour de la réduction du bilan carbone des offres touristiques relatives aux transports ; \n\n\n– la gestion de la part des dépenses liées aux transports dans le voyage touristique ; \n\n\n– les politiques des transports et des mobilités touristiques ; \n\n\n– l’enseignement de l’approche des transports et des mobilités dans les diplômes universitaires relatifs au tourisme ; \n\n\n– les rapports entre sport\, transport et tourisme ; \n\n\n– la décarbonation des transports touristiques ; \n\n\n– la décroissance des mobilités touristiques et la question du greenwashing. \n\n\nFR \n\n\nAttendus des propositions : \n\n\nS’inscrivant dans le cadre général du colloque préalablement défini\, les communications peuvent porter sur différentes échelles\, du local à l’international\, et sur différents cas d’études\, allant de la monographie à la comparaison\, tout autant qu’elles peuvent proposer une réflexion plus distanciée\, plus épistémologique ou plus théorique. \n\n\nLe colloque proposera\, si nécessaire\, plusieurs sessions en visioconférence. \n\n\nSoumission des résumés : \n\n\nLe résumé d’environ 800 mots (hors bibliographie)\, peut être rédigé en anglais ou en français ; merci d’indiquer le titre (en caractères gras)\, le nom de l’auteur\, et des coauteurs si besoin\, en majuscules et leurs affiliations institutionnelles (avec une adresse courriel) ; le texte du résumé doit contenir une introduction présentant l’objet de la communication\, le cadre théorique dans lequel elle s’insère\, la méthodologie\, la discussion des résultats\, quelques références bibliographiques (10 maximum) ainsi que 5 mots-clefs. \n\n\nLes propositions sont à adresser à l’adresse suivante : https://transportourism.sciencesconf.org \n\n\nDates Clefs : \n\n\n20 juin 2026 : Date limite pour la soumission d’un résumé (voir ci-dessus) \n\n\n13 juillet 2026 : Date limite pour l’avis d’acceptation/refus du comité scientifique \n\n\n9 novembre 2026 : Date limite d’inscription \n\n\nPublication : \n\n\nA la suite du colloque\, sur soumission par les auteurs avant le 31 janvier 2027\, une sélection des contributions pourra se voir mobiliser pour : \n\n\nLa revue Espace \n\n\nLa revue Mondes du tourisme \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Call: 2026 Global Mobility Humanities Conference
DESCRIPTION:“Climate\, Mobility and Infrastructure”\n29 ~ 31 October 2026\nKonkuk University\, Seoul\nCall for Participation\nMobilities are woven into ‘the plot of the global climate crisis’\, and people’s movements are among ‘the most topical and concerning symptoms of planetary transformations’ (Baldwin and Bettini 2017\, 10). For this reason\, mobility scholarship has produced robust literature discussing mobility in relation with the climate since its earliest period\, for example when After the Car (Dennis and Urry 2009) was published. This literature has mainly focused on various but interconnected themes\, such as mobility transitions or fossil fuel and energy transitions\, climate migrants or refugees\, Anthropocene or more-than-human mobilities\, alternative mobilities or mobile (social) life\, and mobility governance or politics. Recently\, many journals have also organised special issues on topics such as ‘Anthropocene Mobilities’ (Mobilities\, 2019)\, ‘Time and Mobility after the Anthropocene’ (Sustainability\, 2020)\, ‘Shapes of Socio-ecologically Sustainable Mobility Regimes’ (Applied Mobilities\, 2023)\, ‘Mobility Justice’ (Australian Geographer\, 2023) and ‘Auto/biography\, Mobilities and the Climate Emergency’ (Mobilities\, 2024). These continuing publications demonstrate the enormous urgency and complexity of climate change today\, as well as alluding to the potential topics requiring the attention of mobility scholarship to achieve ‘more just mobility futures’ (Sheller 2021).\nBuilding on the theme of ‘mobility\, infrastructure\, and the humanities’ which was discussed at the 2022 GMHC\, this conference invites scholars to discuss mobility infrastructures in relation to the climate. While mobility infrastructures often have critical impacts on exacerbating today’s climate change through their construction\, maintenance\, and operation\, they are also ‘significantly exposed to the impacts of climate change’ which can lead to ‘widespread infrastructure failure and damages’ (OECD 2024). These impacts result in disproportionate social and environmental consequences based not only on geography but also on factors such as race\, class\, gender\, and age\, thus prompting us to attend to ‘climate mobility regimes’ which ‘frame\, manage\, and regulate the nexus between mobilities and climate change in a particular manner’ (Boas et al. 2022\, 3371).\nSome of emergent trends in recent times related to the above themes include the competitive development of electric vehicles (sometimes across geopolitical spaces) and the formation of ride-sharing economies. These technological innovations often intersect with deeply troubling Big Tech capitalism and monopolies\, both pushing away alternate models of transportation (such as cycling) and doing missionary work for automobility all over again (Liu\, 2022). At the same time\, the ‘growing importance of datafication and algorithmic culture across diverse (im)mobilities’ shows that ‘hybrid physical and data mobilities’ and datadriven mobility infrastructures are becoming increasingly important in addressing climate change (Behrendt and Sheller 2023). Urban Digital Twins (UDTs)\, for instance\, are considered to foster innovation in tackling complex urban challenges\, including the climate emergency\, by facilitating data-driven decision-making for urban operators (Zhu and Jin 2025). Yet\, these technological promises can take on a spectacular dimension\, where the promise of technological salvation through smart and green technologies masks and perpetuates ongoing extractive or exclusionary practices.\nThe conference significantly encourages scholars ‘to intervene epistemologically and politically in an ontology of infrastructure for its transformation\, occasionally mobilising creativity and imagination’ (Adey et al. 2024) to create more just mobility futures. That is\, this conference is committed to ‘imagining other forms of social life’\, what Amitav Ghosh (2016) refers to as ‘the challenge posed by the climate crisis’. This will be achieved more effectively through cross-disciplinary discussions about climate\, mobility\, and infrastructure\, that traverse multiple scales of humans\, nonhumans\, and more-than-humans\, and that attend both physical and hybrid mobility infrastructures and envisioned\, speculated\, or sensed mobility infrastructures\, embedded in literary\, cultural\, visual\, and creative endeavours and works.\nThis conference invites proposals from different disciplines within climate\, mobility and infrastructures studies\, including\, but not limited to: literary and cultural studies\, philosophy\, history\, art and design studies\, anthropology\, geography\, media and communication\, architecture\, urban planning\, climate and environmental studies\, science technology studies\, AI and data research\, tourism\, transportation\, education\, Black and Indigenous studies\, gender and sexuality studies\, and others. It will present an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of climate\, mobility infrastructure\, and the humanities\, transcending the conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities and the arts. We accept proposals for papers and sessions on one or more of the following topics/areas:\n• Literary\, cultural\, and arts studies on climate and mobility infrastructure\n• Philosophical research on climate mobility and infrastructure\n• Qualitative studies on climate mobilities and infrastructures\n• Alternative (im)mobilities and infrastructures\n• Political ecology of mobility infrastructures\n• Hybrid mobilities and infrastructures studies\n• Affects\, emotions\, and senses of mobility infrastructure\n• Ethnography of mobility infrastructures of nonhumans and more-than-humans\n• Vital elements of resilient\, sustainable and quality infrastructure\n• Fantasies\, desires\, and speculations of (sustainable) mobility infrastructures\n• Electric vehicles\, autonomous vehicles and other technologies\n• Other related issues\nProposals can be for individual papers\, panels\, artworks\, posters\, and other creative formats\, as outlined below. We welcome relevant contributions from any academic perspective or discipline. Beyond scholars\, this includes professionals\, policymakers and practitioners in the transport\, traffic\, and mobility field\, as well as artists and creative professionals\, designers\, engineers and educationalists in the art and humanities.\nThe conference language is only English.\nKey Dates\n15 June 2026 Deadline for the submission of abstracts and full\, pre-organised sessions 29 June 2026 Notification of acceptance for abstracts and sessions 29 June 2026 Early Bird registration opens 3 August 2026 Early Bird registration closes\n14 September 2026 Registration closes\n29-31 October 2026 Conference\nSubmission formats\nIndividual Papers: Individual submission of a paper consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. Papers will be grouped thematically by the programme committee and may become part of a 7/7\, debate\, or panel session.\nSessions: A full\, pre-organised 7/7\, debate\, or panel session. A session submission should include a title\, a summary of the session theme and the method chosen for facilitating discussion (300 words)\, as well as abstracts for each contribution/presentation (300 words). A short biography of each presenter is also required (100 words)\, with contact information.\n– 7/7 sessions: This means seven slides and seven minutes for each presentation (max 7 papers). The sessions will have plenty of time for discussion. This will be supported by having a chair who might also act as a discussant. Presenters shall focus on their main argument in order to avoid overly complex presentations.\n– Debate sessions: Debate sessions have a maximum of five presenters. Each gives a five-minute focused input to the topic\, and this should be followed by a discussion involving the audience. Led by a chair.\n– Panel sessions: Panels consist of a chair\, three to four paper presenters\, and one discussant (optional). Panels should include time for audience discussion. Each presenter has 20 minutes (15 min + 5 min for questions); papers are grouped thematically.\nArtworks\, Posters\, and Other Creative Formats: They are great ways to exhibit artwork and to discuss early\, exploratory\, or creative work at the conference. A submission consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. The full artwork\, poster\, and other creative format are due by 14 September 2026.\nAfter Acceptance\, all abstracts will be published on the conference website.\nSubmit your paper\, session proposals\, and /or poster to: 2026GMHC@gmail.com\nFor any questions\, send an email to: 2026GMHC@gmail.com\nRegistration\nAll participants must register and pay the registration fee via the conference website (details to follow)\, with only one submission per person.\nIndividual fee is for regular researchers.\nReduced fee is for PhD students\, researchers from the Global South\, and retired scholars.\nEarly Bird registration before 4 August 2026\nIndividual fee: 220 Euros\nReduced fee: 160 Euros\nRegistration after 4 October to 14 September 2026\nIndividual fee: 280 Euros\nReduced fee: 220 Euros\nThe registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials\, coffee/tea breaks\, two lunches (Friday and Saturday)\, a welcome aperitive (Thursday evening)\, and two dinners (Friday and Saturday).\nPlease email the Organising Committee (2026GMHC@gmail.com) with the subject heading “2026GMHC\nInquiry” if you have any questions or concerns.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-2026-global-mobility-humanities-conference/
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SUMMARY:2025 Global Mobility Humanities Conference: entr’acte (2025 GMHC: entr’acte)
DESCRIPTION:Organised by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University)\n“Mobility Infrastructures of Humans\, Non-humans\, and\nMore-than-humans”\n5 ~ 6 December 2025\nKonkuk University\, Seoul\nCall for Participation\nInnovations in mobility infrastructure\, such as artificial intelligence databases\, global logistics systems\, climate technologies\, satellite internet constellations and battery charging and swapping systems\, carry uncertain\, uneven and even cynical promises: augmenting human intelligence\, facilitating freedoms beyond physical limits\, establishing a sustainable environment on Earth\, and moving\, mediating\, storing\, calculating and coordinating life; at the same time\, however\, rending human thinking abilities be incompetent\, disintegrating our societies\, and putting all life on Earth\, and even Earth itself\, in catastrophic situations. Furthermore\, the competition between nations for technological supremacy disseminates speculative imaginations and hopeful affects\, which fuel infrastructure innovations. It is important to note that these impacts and side effects occur across multiple scales\, from the local to the planetary. This therefore urges us to recognise and critically discuss infrastructure as an essential medium of human\, non-human\, and more-than-human activity\, and\, accordingly\, as a vital object for addressing the just futures of our society and planet.\nNot to mention John Urry’s focus on ‘the significance of mobility infrastructures\,’ which underpin almost all mobilities and enable ‘the socialities of everyday life’ (Urry 2007)\, infrastructures have long been of interest to mobility researchers (Adey et al. 2024). In recent years\, there has been a considerable increase in infrastructure studies within the social sciences and humanities. This coincides with an expanded understanding of infrastructure as not only ‘a mundane conveyor of mobilities’\, but also ‘an inspiring conveyor of fantasies\, desires\, and speculative futures’ (Sheller 2018). It is also noteworthy that mobilities can be triggered\, propelled\, delayed\, or abandoned by imagination (Salazar 2018)\, aspirations (Lin et al. 2023)\, or affects (Boswoth 2023)\, often mediated by various forms of material or immaterial texts\, as well as by habit (Bissell 2015)\, ethos\, climate\, weather and environmental or ecological habitats – especially for animals’ worlds. These can thus be addressed in terms of infrastructures.\n‘More expansive notions of infrastructures’ engage with their symbolic and cultural values\, social biases and exclusions\, the normativity of their assumed use practice\, and how infrastructural systems are ‘grounded’ (Pinnix et al. 2023). More significantly\, they must also engage with their expressive and creative potential as they are encountered and lived (Adey et al. 2024)\, and as they are imagined and speculated. Recognising material and immaterial\ninfrastructures across multiple scales\, this conference seeks to address the ontology and ethos of mobility infrastructures for humans\, non-humans\, and more-than-humans. In doing so\, it aims to enable the multifarious theoretical possibilities and creative potential of infrastructure studies\, as nuanced by the humanities and social sciences\, to emerge and to predict\, challenge\, and reconfigure our mobility presents and futures.\nThis conference invites proposals from different disciplines within mobility and infrastructures studies\, including\, but not limited to: literary and cultural studies\, philosophy\, history\, art and design studies\, anthropology\, geography\, media and communication\, architecture\, urban planning\, climate and environmental studies\, technology\, tourism\, transportation\, education\, Black and Indigenous studies\, gender and sexuality studies\, and others. It will present an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of mobilities\, infrastructures\, and the humanities\, transcending the conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities and the arts. We accept proposals for papers and sessions on one or more of the following topics/areas:\n• Mobility infrastructures lived and experienced by individuals\n• Literary and cultural representation of mobility infrastructures\n• Philosophical investigations on the ontology of mobility infrastructures\n• Ethics and morals of practising mobility infrastructures\n• Politics\, policies\, and laws of infrastructures\n• Ethnography of the infrastructures of nonhumans and more-than-humans\n• Climate and Planetary infrastructures for just futures\n• Infrastructuralisation of imaginations\, aspirations\, and affections\n• Fantasies\, desires\, and speculations of Infrastructures\n• Critical approaches to capitalist infrastructures\n• Other related issues\nProposals can be for individual papers\, panels\, artworks\, posters\, and other creative formats\, as outlined below. We welcome relevant contributions from any academic perspective or discipline. Beyond scholars\, this includes professionals\, policymakers and practitioners in the transport\, traffic\, and mobility field\, as well as artists and creative professionals\, designers\, engineers and educationalists in the art and humanities.\nThe conference language is only English.\nThe conference is organised in a hybrid format.\nKey Dates\n31 August 2025 Deadline for the submission of abstracts and full\, pre-organised sessions\n8 September 2025 Notification of acceptance for abstracts and sessions\n8 September 2025 Early Bird registration opens\n13 October 2025 Early Bird registration closes\n10 November 2025 Registration closes\n5-6 December 2025 Conference\nSubmission formats\nIndividual Papers: Individual submission of a paper consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. Papers will be grouped thematically by the programme committee and may become part of a 7/7\, debate\, or panel session.\nSessions: A full\, pre-organised 7/7\, debate\, or panel session. A session submission should include a title\, a summary of the session theme and the method chosen for facilitating discussion (300 words)\, as well as abstracts for each contribution/presentation (300 words). A short biography of each presenter is also required (100 words)\, with contact information.\n– 7/7 sessions: This means seven slides and seven minutes for each presentation (max 7 papers). The sessions will have plenty of time for discussion. This will be supported by having a chair who might also act as a discussant. Presenters shall focus on their main argument in order to avoid overly complex presentations.\n– Debate sessions: Debate sessions have a maximum of five presenters. Each gives a five-minute focused input to the topic\, and this should be followed by a discussion involving the audience. Led by a chair.\n– Panel sessions: Panels consist of a chair\, three to four paper presenters\, and one discussant (optional). Panels should include time for audience discussion. Each presenter has 20 minutes (15 min + 5 min for questions); papers are grouped thematically.\nArtworks\, Posters\, and Other Creative Formats: They are great ways to exhibit artwork and to discuss early\, exploratory\, or creative work at the conference. A submission consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. The full artwork\, poster\, and other creative format are due by 10 November 2025.\nAfter Acceptance\, all abstracts will be published on the conference website.\nSubmit your paper\, session proposals\, and /or poster to: 2025GMHC@gmail.com\nFor any questions\, send an email to: 2025GMHC@gmail.com\nRegistration\nAll participants must register and pay the registration fee via the conference website (details to follow)\, with only one submission per person.\nIndividual fee is for regular researchers.\nReduced fee is for PhD students\, researchers from the Global South\, and retired scholars.\nEarly Bird registration before 13 October 2025\nIndividual fee: 200 Euros\nReduced fee: 150 Euros\nOnline participation: 80 Euros\nRegistration after 14 October to 10 November 2025\nIndividual fee: 250 Euros\nReduced fee: 200 Euros\nOnline participation: 100 Euros\nThe registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials\, coffee/tea breaks\, two lunches (Friday and Saturday)\, and two dinners (Friday and Saturday)\nPlease email the Organising Committee (2025GMHC@gmail.com) with the subject heading “2025GMHC Inquiry” if you have any questions or concerns.\nConference Committee\nConvenor\nInseop Shin (Konkuk University\, Director of the Academy of Mobility Humanities)\nProgramme Committee\nPeter Adey (Monash University)\, Jinhyoung Lee (Konkuk University)\, Peter Merriman (Aberystwyth University)\, Lynne Pearce (Lancaster University)\, Paul Rabé (International Institute for Asian Studies)\, Tania Rossetto (University of Padua)\nOrganising Committee\nJooyoung Kim (Konkuk University)\, Ilman Choe (Konkuk University)\, Eunhye Choung (Konkuk University)\, Bomi Im (Konkuk University)\, Taehee Kim (Konkuk University)\, Miae Lee (Konkuk University)\, Seungjin Lee (Konkuk University)\, Haeri Park (Konkuk University)\, Gijae Seo (Konkuk University)\, Yeonhee Woo (Konkuk University)\, Myungsim Yang (Konkuk University)
URL:https://t2m.org/event/2025-global-mobility-humanities-conference-entracte-2025-gmhc-entracte/
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SUMMARY:Call for Applications: 24th European Transport Congress
DESCRIPTION:In 2026\, the Austrian Association for Traffic and Transport Sciences (ÖVG) celebrates its 100th anniversary – and we warmly invite you to join us for this special occasion! \nOn May 7\, 2026\, we will host an international anniversary conference in the beautiful Kuppelsaal of TU Wien\, in conjunction with the 24th European Transport Congress. The event will bring together leading voices from across Europe through inspiring keynotes\, high-level panels\, and scientific contributions from the mobility and transport research community. \nAt the heart of the conference are four key topics that pose major challenges – and opportunities – for our sector\, now and in the future: \n\nLabour & diversity\nClimate change & resilience\nAsset management & availability\nGeopolitical change & strategic dependencies\n\nSubmissions\nThe 2026 theme\, “Resilient and Reliable Mobility Systems: Insights from Science and Practice\,” invites contributions that explore how transport infrastructure can adapt to a changing climate\, meet increasing availability demands\, and remain robust amid external shocks. \nWe particularly welcome submissions on\, but not limited to\, the following topics: \n1. Maintenance and Availability of Transport Infrastructures \n2. Climate Change and Resilience in Relation to Transport Infrastructures \nWe invite the submission of extended abstracts (up to 9\,000 characters\, approx. 4 pages) for peer review by the Scientific Committee. A word template is provided for the extended abstracts. Accepted contributions will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. Outstanding submissions will be invited to submit a full paper for consideration in special issues at European Transport Studies (ETS) and the Austrian Journal of Traffic Sciences (ÖZV). \nThe deadline for submitting an extended abstract (max. 4 pages) has been extended to November 15\, 2025. Outstanding submissions will be invited to develop a full paper for consideration in special issues of European Transport Studies (ETS) and the Austrian Journal of Traffic Sciences (ÖZV). For full details and submission guidelines\, please visit the conference website:  www.epts.eu/etc2026<https://www.epts.eu/etc2026> \nWe also welcome submissions to the 21st Friedrich-List-Award 2026\, dedicated to recent Master and PhD theses\, with an application deadline of January 14\, 2026.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/24th-european-transport-congress/
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SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Travellers of the Sea – Conference on Maritime History\, Marine Archaeology and Ethnology
DESCRIPTION:Experience three cities and two countries during this travelling conference that will take place at the Maritime Centre Forum Marinum\, Turku\, House of Sciences and Letters in Helsinki\, Finland and at the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn\, Estonia\, on 11th–13th June 2026. It is organised by the Finnish Maritime History Association\, the Finnish Maritime Archaeological Society\, the Estonian Maritime Museum and the Maritime Centre Forum Marinum. As with the 12 earlier biannual Maritime History Days conferences\, we aim to bring together scholars and students working on maritime history and related fields such as maritime archaeology\, ethnology and maritime folklore. \nThe overall theme of the conference is travelling by sea\, with no temporal or geographical limits and with a multispecies approach. Travelling by sea is probably as old as human society. Furthermore\, non-human animals have always travelled across the seas voluntarily or otherwise. Sea travel has countless purposes: to explore the world\, to make trade connections\, to migrate\, or to cruise. Sometimes the voyagers have been forced to escape from disasters or violent regimes. The Gulf of Finland\, for instance\, has connected Estonians and Finns for centuries\, from the seprakauppa/sõbrakaubandus trade to our own time when the sea area between Tallinn and Helsinki is one of the busiest ferry routes in the world. The increased mobility by people and goods has also raised questions on the sustainability of sea travel. More on the conference themes and topics can be found in our CFP below. \nWe aim to promote interdisciplinary encounters and discussions\, with the goal of bringing together scholars worldwide. The conference is intended for anyone working with topics somehow relating to the sea and maritime travel – previous experience with maritime history\, maritime archaeology\, or maritime ethnology specifically is not necessary. The bi-annual\, peer-reviewed journal Nautica Fennica will be offering participants the possibility to submit their papers in the journal. The publishing decisions will be made by the Nautica Fennica editorial board. More on Nautica Fennica here: https://smhy.fi/en/activities/nautica-fennica.  \nThe conference program includes three keynote lectures\, held by Dr. Kaori Nagai (Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature\, University of Kent)\, Dr. Mirja Arnshav (Research Coordinator\, The National Maritime Museum\, Stockholm)\, and Dr. Matteo Barbano (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow\, University of Genoa). Please find an introduction of our keynote speakers below. \nImportant: \n\nTakes place on 11th–13th June 2026\nCFP deadline 10th November 2025 (sent by email to talous[at]smhy.fi)\nDecisions announced by 5th December 2025\nThe conference will be held in-person\, and we cannot guarantee hybrid participation. Conference language is English apart from 11th June\, when the new researchers’ meeting will be held in Finnish and Swedish. \n\n  \nCFP downloadable here: Call for Papers_Travellers_ 2026.pdf \nKeynote introductions: keynote_introductions_.pdf \nMore Information: https://www.smhy.fi/en/activities/travellers-sea-conference \n 
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-for-applications-travellers-of-the-sea-conference-on-maritime-history-marine-archaeology-and-ethnology/
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SUMMARY:Mobility Alternatives – Alternative Mobilities - T2M conference November 2025
DESCRIPTION:T2M Conference 4-7 November 2025 Eindhoven\, NL \nConference page \nThe call in PDF \nT2M 2025 seeks to spark debate that moves beyond mono-modal approaches through the broad lens of Mobility Alternatives – Alternative Mobilities. \nThe term Mobility Alternatives refers to transport modes positioned as alternatives to dominant forms of mobilities—largely automobilities—such as walking\, cycling\, micromobilities or public transport as substitute to driving cars. Even in contexts where car use is a minority pursuit rather than a majority practice\, the pervasive normativity of automobility is present. This T2M 2025 framing transcends modal split and modal shift notions of mobility alternatives. It concerns broader mobility cultures\, historical trajectories (Ploeger & Oldenziel 2024)\, and differences across local\, regional and national contexts as well as reflections on justice\, equity\, and inclusion (Nyamai & Schramm 2022). Finally\, it facilitates thinking about the co-existence and epistemological status of ‘new’ and ‘old’ mobilities and the interplay between innovation and decline in mobility practices. \nSimilarly\, the theme Alternative Mobilities provides a lens to explore non-mainstream mobilities that develop outside dominant mobility cultures\, with rich historical trajectories. These practices\, often unregulated\, peripheral\, marginalized\, or overlooked\, create vibrant cultures and communities and are central to innovations\, justice concerns\, and to developing alternative futures for low carbon mobilities (van der Straeten 2022)\, while also facing barriers and resistance. This T2M conference aims to foster these debates and bring alternatives to the fore. \nT2M 2025 invites discussions on the roles of legislation\, technical innovation\, financial incentives\, social resistance\, and media narratives (Glachant & Behrendt 2024) —ranging from novels\, newspapers to films—in shaping mobility systems over time. It encourages comparative perspectives on how such processes differ in the Global North\, East\, and South\, offering a forum for stronger ‘alternative’ conceptualisations of mobilities\, traffic and transport.\nIn discussing Mobility Alternatives and Alternative Mobilities\, T2M encourages debate beyond ‘mono modal’ approaches and the often-present ‘mode-shift’ focus in transport research. We invite conference contributors to adopt an ‘alternative’ perspective beyond the confines of the mode they usually study (Mom 2020)\, and to contribute to critically examining the dominance of automobility and challenge its status as the default paradigm in transport systems. \nThis topic also invites an integration of global and local perspectives\, encouraging work regarding all regions of the planet\, drawing attention to the interconnected crises of climate change\, urbanization\, global road safety\, and gendered\, racial and generational mobility inequalities\, including immobilities (Kurnicki 2022) and datafication (Behrendt & Sheller 2024\, Chang & Behrendt 2024). Together these challenges demand an ‘alternative’ paradigm shift: a fundamental rethinking of established mobility approaches. \nWith this in mind\, we invite contributions from the arts\, social sciences and humanities\, as well as engineering and technology\, and wholeheartedly welcome work from any other disciplinary background\, especially practitioners\, artists and activists. We are looking for proposals for papers and sessions that engage broadly with the conference theme\, although all contributions are welcome. \nWe welcome relevant contributions from any academic perspective or discipline\, from professionals\, policymakers and practitioners in the history\, transport\, traffic\, and mobility fields\, as well as artists and creative professionals\, designers\, engineers\, and educationalists. A limited number of travel grants will be available for participants without access to institutional funding\, particularly from low-income countries. \n>> The conference language is English. The conference is in-person only. \n>> 4th November: Workshops\, Project & Collaboration Meetings\, Excursions. >> 5-7 November: Sessions and Keynotes. \nThe conference has a special focus on all four T2M journals – Mobilities\, Transfers\, Journal of Transport History and Mobility Humanities. Special sessions in relation to them and publishing opportunities will be organised. Selected papers may form part of Special Issues of the T2M journals. \nThe submission platform is scheduled to open on March 13\, with the submission deadline expected by April 20. Further registration details will be provided shortly. \n>> Submission Formats \nPapers: Individual submission of a paper consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. Papers will be grouped thematically by the programme committee and may become part of a session (see below). \nPosters: This is a great way to discuss early or exploratory work and present it as a poster at the conference. A submission consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words)\, including contact information. \nSessions: A full\, pre-organised workshop\, debate\, panel session. A session submission should include a title\, a summary of the session theme and the method chosen for facilitating discussion/interaction (300 words)\, as well as abstracts for each contribution/presentation (300 words). A short biography of each presenter and chair is also required (100 words)\, with contact information. \nThematic workshops: These allow for alternative and creative formats\, not typically exceeding 6 named participants\, led by a chair\, with an option to specify the overall participant number where needed. \nDebate sessions: Debate sessions have a maximum of five presenters. Each gives a five- minute focused input to the topic\, and this should be followed by a discussion involving the audience. Led by a chair. \nPanel sessions: Panels consist of a chair\, three to four paper presenters\, and one discussant (optional). Panels should include time for audience discussion. Each presenter has 20 minutes (15 min + 5 min for questions); papers are grouped thematically. \nProject and Collaboration Meetings: For Tuesday 4 November\, we offer the opportunity to book rooms for project meetings or other collaborative sessions. Co-locating these meetings with T2M could help reduce travel-related emissions and create synergies. Provide a topic and all information needed to book rooms: number of people\, length of the meeting(s)\, etc. \nAfter acceptance\, all abstracts will be published on the conference website. You will also have the opportunity to submit a full paper (5\,000 words). We strongly encourage the submission of full papers\, which will be shared with all conference delegates. \nLocal Organising committee: Frauke Behrendt (Chair)\, Ruth Oldenziel\, Gijs Mom\, Clara Glachant\, Hanbit Chang\, Jan Korsten\, Nthoki Dorcas Nyamai\, Jonas van der Straeten\, Karol Kurnicki \nBecome a member via the T2M website: https://t2m.org/ \n>> Eindhoven and Travel \nConference Organisers: Technology\, Innovation & Society (TIS) Group at Technical University of Eindhoven\, Foundation for the History of Technology 4TU.History of Technology\, Cycling Cities \nProgramme committee: Tiina Männistö-Funk\, Eduardo Nunes\, Hugo Pereira\, Claire Pelgrims\, Govind Gopakumar\, and Local Organising committee \nT2M 2025 takes place at the Technical University of Eindhoven located in the heart of the Dutch city of Eindhoven known for Dutch Design Week\, its location in Brainport\, and its rich Industrial Heritage. Eindhoven features the Phillips Museum\, the car/truck DAF museum\, the Van Abbe art museum\, the DAF truck factory the VDL bus factory\, and famous cycling infrastructure such as this elevated roundabout and the Van Gogh cycle path\, alongside many other cycling routes in the city and beyond. \nAmsterdam\, Rotterdam\, Utrecht\, Delft and many other Dutch cities are a good hour away by direct train. Many German and Belgium cities can also easily be integrated into a visit. \nEindhoven is well connected by rail (including long-distance and overnight options as well as UK links)\, bus and bicycle. Where air travel is unavoidable\, check Eindhoven airport and note direct train connections to Amsterdam Schipol airport\, and buses connecting to Dusseldorf airport. \n>> References\nBehrendt & Sheller (2024) Mobility Data\nJustice. Mobilities. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2200148.\nT2M Conference 4-7 November 2025 Eindhoven\, NL\nChang & Behrendt (2024) Riders Driving at the Limits of AI: geographies of two-wheeled food delivery and traffic safety in Seoul\, South Korea. Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2425584\nGlachant & Frauke Behrendt (2024) ‘Social Darwinism has moved to the cycle path’: framings of micromobility in the Dutch and British press. Mobilities.https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2024.2366850\nKurnicki (2022) What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices. Mobilities.https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1981538\nMom (2020) Trending Transfers: A Decade of New Mobility Studies through the Lens of Transmodality\, Transnationalism\, and Transdisciplinarity. Transfers : Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.100103\nNyamai & Schramm (2022) Accessibility\, mobility and spatial justice in Nairobi\, Kenya. In: Journal of Urban Affairs. doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2071284.\nPloeger & Oldenziel (2024) Bicycle-Oriented Development: How the Dutch Railroad Shaped Urban Planning and Discovered Cyclists along the Way\, 1960-1990. Journal of Urban History. https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442221133080\nVan der Straeten (2022) Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. Historical Social Research.https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.47.2022.42
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SUMMARY:Mobilising Imperial History: Crime\, Policing and Control in the British Empire
DESCRIPTION:Event\, 10.00-16.00 on 15th July 2025 \nLocation for this event: Council Room\, Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD \n‘Mobilising Imperial History’ will examine intersections between Imperial History\, histories of transport\, and Mobilities through the lens of crimes committed in transit. This event is supported by the Royal Historical Society as part of its Workshop Grants programme. \nNew and faster modes of transport (trains\, steamboats\, bicycles\, automobiles\, aeroplanes) were introduced across the British Empire through the nineteenth and the twentieth century. However\, an understanding of the impact of this unprecedented degree of mobility (both humans and goods) on crimes\, and policing in the British Empire remains underexamined. This is rather a curious omission in Imperial History as increased mobility provided novel and widespread opportunities for crimes in transit. \nUsing recent scholarship (Lambert and Merriman:2020) on the prospect of closer collaboration between Imperial history and Mobility Studies as a point of departure\, this workshop invites scholars to explore how technology induced mobilities shaped crimes\, criminality\, and policing in the British Empire. More specifically\, the participants are encouraged to reflect on: \n    Mobility as an analytical lens to broaden current assumption of crime and imposition of ‘order and control’ in the British Empire.\n    Histories of policing in Imperial History.\n    Rethinking notions of ‘colonial mobilities\,’\, especially\, exploring the limits of tools of controlling mobile bodies and goods in colonial milieus. \nThe workshop will be held in-person on 15th July 2025 and will include refreshments and lunch. There is provision for covering travel costs for early career researchers. Please indicate your ECR status in the bio\, and if you would like to be considered for the travel grant.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/mobilising-imperial-history-crime-policing-and-control-in-the-british-empire-call-for-papers/
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SUMMARY:Call for papers on cycling in post-socialist cities
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a call for papers for those working on cycling in post-socialist cities or the broader CEE region. We invite you to send your abstracts to our session titled “Pedalling Through Change: The Politics\, Histories\, and Cultures of Cycling in Post-Socialist Cities”. Our panel is part of the Cities After Transition conference\, taking place in Tirana\, Albania\, from 22 to 25 September 2025. Conference information can be found https://cat2025tirana.com/\, and all the sessions are outlined https://cat2025tirana.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/List-of-session-proposals_accepted-2.pdf.   \nBelow is the detailed description of our CFP. Please share it with your colleagues who might be interested in the conference and in a potential shared bike ride in Tirana 😉 The research on cycling in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) is not that widespread\, so we would be happy if we could reach the researchers working on that topic and who would also like to join an excellent biannual conference on the region itself (already 11th in the row).  \nThe deadline for the abstracts is 15 June. All abstracts should be sent through the conference website. \nSession Title: Pedaling Through Change: The Politics\, Histories\, and Cultures of Cycling in Post-Socialist Cities  \nKeywords: Cycling\, post-socialism\, gender  \nAbstract: Over the past two decades\, research on cycling has experienced a resurgence in the social sciences and related disciplines\, leading to countless research papers and numerous edited volumes (Cox\, 2020; Spinney\, 2020; Vivanco\, 2013).  \nIn Western and Northern Europe\, qualitative approaches to cycling that emphasize it as a form of journeying that derives meaning from political\, historical\, and sociocultural contexts (Adey\, 2006) have gained traction. Cities in these regions have witnessed a significant increase in cycling adoption\, prompting a shift also in academic focus from merely transport planning toward examining the broader societal implications of this form of travel. In this line\, Rachel Aldred (2010) has argued that cycling is not only influenced by political decisions of infrastructuring but also actively shapes the political agency of those who relate to a form of “cycling citizenship”. However\, despite such uptake\, post-socialist urban spaces have not gained similar attention.  \nHence\, this session seeks contributions that explore the political\, historical\, and sociocultural dimensions of cycling in Central and Eastern European (CEE) and former Soviet Union (FSU) countries that:  \n– Investigate how post-socialist urban planning and historical legacies shape cycling cultures and its uptake in CEE and the FSU.\n– Explore gendered and intersectional dimensions of cycling practices.\n– Examine cycling’s role in care mobilities and unpaid care work.\n– Analyze the sensory and ambient dimensions of cycling using alternative methodologies.\n– Provide insights into cycling as a form of local and transnational civic activism.  \nWe welcome contributions from scholars across disciplines\, in traditional papers or other formats. \nWarm regards\,  \nTauri
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-for-papers-on-cycling-in-post-socialist-cities/
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SUMMARY:Call for: Mobilities Controversies – Place\, Justice\, Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Please reserve the dates of August 22-23 2024 for the C-MUS conference on ‘Mobilities Controversies – Place\, Justice\, Democracy’. \nWe are open for abstract submissions. Please find more information here:\nhttps://www.en.create.aau.dk/research/labs-and-facilities/centre-for-mobilities-and-urban-studies-c-mus/c-mus-conference-2024 \nDirect link to abstract submission: https://www.en.create.aau.dk/research/labs-and-facilities/centre-for-mobilities-and-urban-studies-c-mus/c-mus-conference-2024/abstract-submission\nAbstract Submission – Aalborg University (aau.dk) \nThe deadline for abstract submissions is March 6\, 2024. \nConfirmed keynotes:\nMimi Sheller (US)\nAnthony Elliott (AU)\nNikolaj Schultz (DK) \nConference theme\nTo state that the world is facing challenges seems to be an understatement. Not since the Second World War has a totality of nations and continents been hit by so many challenges and crisis as now. The environmental\, energy and ecological crisis has been building up over decades\, but it’s coinciding with the global epidemics of Covid-19\, the global refugee crisis\, and now the war in Ukraine almost seems like the ‘perfect storm’. The facing of ‘wicked problems’ on an unpresented magnitude is a wake-up call not just for policy makers\, business leaders\, and the civil society. The global research communities are also called upon by these troubled times. Various forms of research that addresses such challenges – from the globe to the body – is highly needed. During this plethora of troubles\, we find mobilities to be at the very heart of contestation and controversy. The sheer magnitude of moving of matter\, goods\, people\, information\, data\, virus\, weapons etc. should make it clear that we are facing serious global challenges. Next to this ‘hypermobility’ we are also facing problematic immobility or restricted mobility as for instance when humans are moving for survival but curbed on their mobilities due to ‘politicized forms of friction’. \nThe ‘Mobilities Controversies’ want to chase the genealogies of these controversies. Not only in time\, but also across spaces and infrastructural landscapes. Mobilities are contested in various fields of policy and planning\, as well as multiple research disciplines offer different interpretation of the causes and consequences. By applying the notion of ‘controversy’ we partly want to pay homage to the now late Bruno Latour\, an unorthodox thinker whose oeuvre has left a permanent imprint on the mobilities turn. Partly we want to acknowledge the line of enquiry coming out of ‘controversy studies’ that critically problematize notions of singular causality and foundational explanations in a hunt for ‘matters of fact’. Exploring contemporary mobilities as ‘matter of concern’ in the light of controversy is thus to have an open mind to the many human and non-human systems\, agencies\, and infrastructures that shapes the world we now inhabit. \nTo reduce some of this complexity the conference wants to home in on three important dimensions of these mobilities controversies. Firstly\, the conference explore how places becomes central in all this? Both in terms of the obvious fact that mobilities controversies are ‘placed’. There is a complicated geography and territoriality to these issues. But also\, on the more fundamental level we want to ask what place is and what it becomes in the light of these controversies. Secondly\, the conference brings questions of justice and injustice to the table. Much focus is on the two dimensions of sustainability relating to the environment and the economy. Important as these are\, we here\, however\, remind that the social exclusionary effects of multiple mobilities controversies should not be forgotten. Issues of mobility justice and mobility injustice prevails. Final and thirdly\, the conference inserts this discussion in a context of democracy. Not as a solution based on the best ‘system’ but rather as a prism into issues of co-creation\, transparency\, and citizen engagement. Democracy might be troubled but nevertheless a set of practices and a way of thinking that seems to be the best way forward. Whether one perceives democracy as a system or a way of living\, and whether one believes that democracy is about rational consensus or agonistic co-existence we believe it is necessary to have a platform for normative and critical deliberation. \nWe invite\nThe Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University calls to an internationally anchored\, critical-concerned conversation across professions and professional disciplines. We invite papers on mobilities controversies to fit under the following thematic headlines (but not only these): \n– Everyday life mobilities\n– Rural / urban mobilities\n– Territorial and geo-political mobilities\n– Infrastructure\, infrastructural landscapes and mobilities systems\n– Aeromobilities\n– Automobilities\n– Cycling\n– Pedestrians\n– Harbors and water-based infrastructure\n– Architecture\n– The human and multisensorial body\n– Urban design and planning\n– Digital network technologies\n– Mobilities of ageing populations\n– Mobilities of disabilities\n– Gendered mobilities\n– Racialized controversies of mobilities\n– Refugees and immigration\n– Warfare and geopolitical conflict\n– Environment and ecology\n– Mobilities and geosocial classes\nThe conference is an ‘IRL’ event with no options for online participation.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-for-mobilities-controversies-place-justice-democracy/
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Mobility Culture: Subjects and practices in-motion
DESCRIPTION:Mar del Plata\, Argentina – 6 March 2023\nIn-person and via YouTube \nThe symposium will present results of the research carried out by the project PICT 2017-1880 Passengers\, drivers\, cyclists and pedestrians. The production of subjects and practices of mobility in Argentina since the 20th Century. The research project sought to know and explore the culture of mobility in Argentina through a socio-cultural and historical study about the way in which passengers\, drivers\, cyclists and pedestrians were shaped by their practices of mobility -such as traveling by bus\, trams\, airplane\, or driving cars\, pedaling and walking-\, within the context of spatial\, technological and political transformations. \nOrganizers: Melina Piglia & Dhan Zunino Singh\nParticipants: Valeria Grutchesky\, Maximiliano Velázquez\, Carla del Cueto\, Stephanie MdCallum\, Verónica Pérez\, Candela Hernández\, Victoria Lozano Rendón\, Ramiro Segura. \nThe language of the event will be Spanish with a link provided to interested virtual participants.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/symposium-mobility-culture-subjects-and-practices-in-motion/
CATEGORIES:call for conference
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SUMMARY:CfP Symposium: Knowledge production in public transport: Normativities\, Actors\, outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Tbilisi\, Georgia\, 18 – 21 March 2023 \nThe Leibniz research group “CoMoDe – Contentious Mobilities: Rethinking Mobility Transitions through a Decolonial Lens” at IfL\, Leipzig welcomes participants irrespective of disciplines and affiliations – scholars\, practitioners\, transport activists\, enthusiasts or artists – to this interdisciplinary symposium.\nDeadline 31. January\, 2023 \nThis symposium is dedicated to understanding knowledge production in public transport\, primarily in formerly Soviet cities and beyond. Further details see https://comode.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/ and https://leibniz-ifl.de/forschung/projekt/contentious-mobilities-rethinking-mobility-transitions-through-a-decolonial-lens-comode
URL:https://t2m.org/event/cfp-symposium-knowledge-production-in-public-transport-normativities-actors-outcomes/
CATEGORIES:call for conference
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SUMMARY:Call: La velocidad en los mundos lentos. Accidentes\, máquinas y sociedades en América del Sur
DESCRIPTION:Uno de los elementos más llamativos de las transformaciones en curso en los paisajes periféricos de América del Sur es la intensificación de las dinámicas extractivas a través de la construcción de rutas\, la mejora de puertos o el asfaltado de antiguas huellas de carrocería. Esta evolución de las infraestructuras se ha traducido en una presencia cada vez más masiva de grandes máquinas (buques\, aviones\, trenes\, topadoras\, palas mecánicas\, camiones) y también\, a la vez\, por la democratización y masificación de otras máquinas menores (motocicletas\, camionetas\, motosierras\, moto-generadores) que no sólo modifican los ritmos y flujos sino que alteran sensiblemente los paisajes y los modos de vida en las distintas comunidades\, introduciendo formas de aceleración o velocidad que desde muchos puntos de vista resultan disruptivas y problemáticas. Esta reunión pretende centrar la atención en el accidente como punto nodal a partir del cual es posible comprender esta nueva relación entre máquinas y comunidades. \nPor un lado\, se parte de la hipótesis de que\, en esos territorios periféricos en curso de mecanización\, los accidentes han sido y son mal documentados por las administraciones\, ocurren al margen de las aseguradoras\, y son sub-visibilizados por los medios de información oficiales\, por lo que se vuelve indispensable investigar y dar a conocer desde todos los ángulos posibles esa realidad. \nPor otro lado\, hay una dimensión cualitativa en el accidente que es irreductible a las tablas de riesgo de las aseguradoras o a los tomos de datos de las policías: al contrario\, el accidente está al centro de la experiencia vital de esos territorios. Más allá de su comprehensión habitual como acontecimiento puntual que resulta de una falla técnica o humana y que “rompe” la normalidad del cotidiano\, proponemos pensar el accidente como instancia sistemática y estructurante de los distintos ritmos personales\, técnicos y sociales\, volviendo legítima la pregunta por la temporalidad del accidente: ¿Cuándo comienza un accidente? ¿Cuándo termina? ¿Puede hablarse del accidente en la larga duración? \nPor último\, se busca explorar las posibilidades analíticas del accidente en su función transformadora: ¿Qué transforma el accidente? ¿Qué implica para la máquina\, para el lugar donde ocurre\, para la víctima y para su propia comprensión de lo ocurrido? ¿Qué agentividad y qué performatividad pone en juego? Desde este punto de vista\, es en el accidente\, en el disfuncionamiento o en el desperfecto técnico que se revelan la operación cotidiana y culturalmente codificada de las máquinas. \nA partir de estas distintas hipótesis\, “La velocidad en los mundos lentos” busca iluminar la problemática del accidente en los territorios periféricos de América del sur\, dando visibilidad a una realidad mal conocida\, abordando cualitativamente un objeto comúnmente tratado de forma estadística e interrogando la agentividad y performatividad social\, cultural y técnica de un fenómeno usualmente considerado en su sola negatividad. \nEste coloquio se organiza en el marco de los proyectos ANR (ANR-21-CE03-0017) INTERRUPTIONS Accidents\, dysfonctionnements et temps-morts\, les territoires extractifs autrement; IRP ATACAMA-SHS Sciences humaines et sociales en territoire minier; e ISRF MOTOBOOM The Impact of the Current Dissemination of Motorcycles in Indigenous Lowland South America. \nSe invita a las y los colegas interesados por la temática a enviar sus proposiciones (resúmen de 400 palabras) antes del 15 noviembre en https://velocidades.sciencesconf.org. Las contribuciones seleccionadas serán comunicadas a los autores el 30 de noviembre 2022. La reunión se realizará en formato híbrido.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-la-velocidad-en-los-mundos-lentos-accidentes-maquinas-y-sociedades-en-america-del-sur/
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SUMMARY:Call: Retailing and Distribution History
DESCRIPTION:CHORD invites submissions for its 2021 on-line seminars on ‘Retailing and Distribution History’: papers focusing on any aspect of retailing and / or distribution history and on any geographical area or period are welcome. We invite both experienced and new speakers\, including speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are very welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submission (please see details below).  \nWe invite both 20-minute papers and shorter\, 10-minute ‘work in progress’ presentations. All papers will be followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Seminars will take place via Zoom\, and we anticipate that each seminar will include two or (a maximum of) three papers\, and will take place between c. 11.00 and 13.00 UK time.  \nThe proposed dates (please note that these may need slight amendment once the organiser’s semester 2 teaching schedules are published!) are: \nTuesday 26 January 2021 \nTuesday 23 February 2021 \nTuesday 23 March 2021 \nTuesday 27 April 2021 \nTuesday 25 May 2021 \nTo submit a proposal\, please send title and abstract of c.300 to 400 words\, specifying your preferred dates and whether you are proposing a 10 or a 20 minute presentation (as a Word or similar file. Please do not submit a pdf file) to Laura Ugolini\, at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 15 December 2020. \nFor further information\, please see: \nhttps://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/2021-seminars/ \nOr e-mail Laura Ugolini at: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-retailing-and-distribution-history/
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