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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:The 2024 Global Mobility Humanities Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nAspiration has recently entered the lexicon of various branches of mobilities studies. At the individual scale\, scholars have examined the ways in which the term has become an important subjective frame for (especially young) migrants to understand their personal mobility projects (Robertson et al.\, 2018; Paul\, 2019). At a broad societal level\, others have been concerned with the way aspiration has been deployed by capital\, urban managers and state actors to undergird various political and economic agendas\, such as in diasporic formations\, infrastructures\, technologies\, and (urban) future imagineering. Writing about creative labour\, Jian Lin (2019)\, for example\, argues that the identification of a ‘new’ transnational Chinese workforce engaged in the arts and cultural industries is umbilically tied to state aspiration to use creativity as the next growth engine for the economy (see also Ho\, 2011). Elsewhere\, the building of flagship airports and the parade of gleaming aircraft at airshows have long been considered a tactic to conflate infrastructures and technologies with symbols of aspirational modernity (Bok\, 2015; Fritzsche\, 1992; Koch\, 2010). \nAspiration is\, in this sense\, a productive currency that can radically shape mobilities. More than that\, it does so on an exceptionally broad\, if sometimes indeterminable\, time horizon and loop\, invoking different temporalities that necessarily span the present (hope)\, past (contrast) and future (expectation). As Lin et al. (2023) argue\, aspiration seeks to project that which is enchanting and magical forward in time\, and promises a (hegemonic) future of what is good and desirable (see also Knox and Harvey\, 2012). It carves out a problem space to be (re)solved and mended\, making mobilities of the now and then in (urgent) need of remedial actions narrowly defined through certain prescriptions\, instruments and courses of action. From moral concerns like the climate crisis\, to the elevation of technology and automation\, to the introduction of certain debt and financing mechanisms (like in the Belt and Road Initiative)\, mobilities are moulded by forces that are typically already imbued with highly contentious meaning and politics that deserve further unpacking. \nConcomitantly\, aspiration is also a highly affective idea and concept. It entrains a series of evocative values revolving around dreams\, desires\, longing\, yearning\, breakthroughs\, redemption and emancipation. In this context\, it is no surprise that the language of development – especially with regards to infrastructure building – is often laced with expressive tropes of triumphant arrivals\, new identities and ‘mythologies of the future’ (Datta\, 2019). In colonial times\, examples in this regard can be found in the way various transport technologies were affectively mobilised to rally people. Foster’s (2005) work on the Cape-to-Rand railway in South Africa\, for instance\, exactly depicts a dramaturgic sense of (White) aspiration and destiny inscribed onto the bodies of\, and narratives surrounding\, the train. Indeed\, as Appel et al. (2018: 26) aver\, mobility ‘[i]nfrastructures excite affects and sentiment’. How and whether these affects do eventually emerge\, amid fleeting urges of hope\, expectation and disappointment\, is potentially another realm of (micro)politics for further interrogation (see Bissell\, 2016; Bosworth\, 2023). \nThis conference invites proposals from different disciplines within mobility studies\, including\, but not limited to: literary and cultural studies\, philosophy\, history\, art and design studies\, anthropology\, geography\, media and communication\, architecture\, urban planning\, 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 studies and humanities\, transcending the conventional divide between the social sciences and humanities and the arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-Organised by \n\n\nThe Internatinoal Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a global humanities and social sciences research institute and knowledge exchange platform that supports programmes which engage Asian and other international partners. IIAS aims to contribute to a better and more integrated understanding of present-day Asian realities as well as to rethink ‘Asian Studies’ in a changing global context. IIAS works to encourage dialogue and link expertise\, involving scholars and other experts from all around the world in its activities. IIAS is located in Leiden\, the Netherlands. Originally established (1993) by the Dutch Ministry of Education as an inter-university institute\, IIAS today is based at Leiden University\, where it works as a globally oriented interdisciplinary institute with strong connections throughout the Netherlands\, Europe\, Asia and beyond. \n\n\nThe Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) of Konkuk University intends to create innovative research platforms to deal with the development of mobility technology\, the daily movement of things\, and their connected issues. The AMH is the leading research institute for Humanities Korea Plus (HK+)\, supported by the National Research Foundation since 2018. The AMH hosts the annual GMHC. The AMH attempts to help to cultivate a better society for humanities-based thinking. In doing so\, we aim to become one of the main representative institutes of mobility research internationally\, which also fosters new researchers. The AMH continues to evolve as a center from where mobility-focused research engages practical as well as scholarly questions that are planetary in scope. \n\n\nThe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at National University of Singapore has a rich history going back from the year 1929 to present day\, complementing its diverse subjects offered to its students. Initially having only four subjects (English\, History\, Geography and Economics); the Faculty has now grown to accommodate 16 departments with a variety of subject combinations to suit an individual’s interest and expertise. Its mission is to contribute to society through the advancement of knowledge and learning in the humanities and social sciences. The FASS mission comprises three parts. It emphasises a) advancement of knowledge through research\, b) advancement of learning through education\, and c) service to society. \n 
URL:https://t2m.org/event/the-2024-global-mobility-humanities-conference/
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SUMMARY:Just Sustainabilities in Policy\, Planning and Practic
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Agyeman\, Tufts University\, USA \nThe Regional Studies Association warmly invites you to join the 2021 RSA Journal Annual Lecture Series\, which is currently taking place with sessions finishing on 12th November. This webinar series is tied to the Association’s journals.  \nAttendance is free\, but pre-registration will be necessary. Please click on each session below for more information on the session and speakers. The next session takes place on Monday\, 8th November\, and is the Regional Studies\, Regional Science Annual Lecture. Detailed information about these events can also be found on our website.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/just-sustainabilities-in-policy-planning-and-practic/
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SUMMARY:Urban Mobility and Street Network Science
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Geoff Boeing\, University of Southern California\, USA\nThe Regional Studies Association warmly invites you to join the 2021 RSA Journal Annual Lecture Series\, which is currently taking place with sessions finishing on 12th November. This webinar series is tied to the Association’s journals.  \nAttendance is free\, but pre-registration will be necessary. Please click on each session below for more information on the session and speakers. The next session takes place on Monday\, 8th November\, and is the Regional Studies\, Regional Science Annual Lecture. Detailed information about these events can also be found on our website.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/urban-mobility-and-street-network-science/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Cycling in pandemic. Experiences from South America and Europe
DESCRIPTION:T2M invites you to this virtual event about Cycling in Pandemic. \nScholars and activists will discuss recent experiences in many South American and European cities to shape and share a global view on urban cycling during the Covid-19 pandemic. \nYou can join us through Zoom \nRequest the link to secretary@t2m.org<mailto:secretary@t2m.org> \nPresentations will be in English but the discussion also in French and Spanish.
URL:https://t2m.org/event/roundtable-cycling-in-pandemic-experiences-from-south-america-and-europe/
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SUMMARY:Online lecture: Public Transport and Transatlantic Scientific Echanges
DESCRIPTION:Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges\n\n\nFriday\, 26. March 2021 \n\n\n\nLecture (virtual) | 12pm ET | Speakers: Andra B. Chastain (Washington State University Vancouver); Dhan Zunino Singh (National University of Quilmes) \nThe German Historical Institute is pleased to announce the next session of the new virtual lecture series “Mobilities and Migration across the Americas.” The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies; Global\, International & Area Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies (all at UC Berkeley); The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS); and the The International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Temporalities of Future.” \nHere you have the link to attend https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4HZBsIXISQWhK49Vm3j8fg
URL:https://t2m.org/event/online-lecture-public-transport-and-transatlantic-scientific-echanges/
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SUMMARY:'From this new culture of the air we finally see'
DESCRIPTION:Luke Seaber (UCL)\n(5:30pm UK time) \n‘From this new culture of the air we finally see’: ‘Groundmindedness’ in the 1930s \nThe (stereo)typical view of 1930s ‘airmindedness’ is that it is a manifestation of the zeitgeist where we have an interest in\, or even obsession with\, flying and airmen – Rex Warner’s The Aerodrome\, Day Lewis’s apostrophizing Auden as ‘lone flyer\, birdman’; the (classic) examples are legion\, and may be found in Valentine Cunningham’s great sounding of ’30s culture\, British Writers of the Thirties.  It is a phenomenon that has at its heart the earthbound viewer admiring the soaring plane; it is exemplified by the moment in Auden’s The Dance of Death (1933) where the Dancer becomes the Pilot\, ‘the one/To teach us how to fly from the alone to the Alone’. \nThis paper will argue that this view of ‘airmindedness’ is incomplete\, and suggest that of at least equal importance is what it will call ‘groundmindedness’.  This gives an importance to flying that lies not just in itself\, not just in symbolic airmen and technological modernity\, but in what flying made possible: the landscape as seen from the sky.  This view of the Earth’s surface is a vertical view that is quite different from that from mountains (that other ’30s symbolic height)\, quite literally a new way of looking at the world\, one that combines movement and distance.  It will begin examining T.H. White’s England Have My Bones(1936)\, where there is a remarkable long passage describing his first flight as a passenger rather than as a pupil\, before analysing a locus classicusof interwar prose descriptions of flying\, Ginger and Nina’s honeymoon flight inVile Bodies\, where the comparison between the sordid visual reality and Shakespeare’s nobler but imagined bird’s-eye view is a view of modernity made possible by modernity – but the gaze is looking away from the air\, and the modern lies as much (or rather more)  in what is being viewed rather than where it is being viewed from.  We shall then examine the unexplored presence in Auden’s poetry of groundminded imagery such as ‘Far off like floating seeds the ships’ (‘On This Island’\, 1935) or ‘She climbs the European sky\,/Churches and power-stations lie/Alike among earth’s fixtures’ (‘A Summer Night’ 1933)\, where what matters is the phenomenon of seeing from a distant height.  Auden is a key figure here\, as groundmindedness gives him a whole new reservoir of images on which to draw.  Furthermore\, the source of the idea of the Pilot as ‘the one/To teach us how to fly from the alone to the Alone’ will be traced back not as it usually is to Plotinus but instead to Charles Williams’s 1931 novel The Place of the Lion\, where it is associated with groundminded rather than airminded imagery. \nThe history of literature over the centuries has\, of course\, seen the emergence of countless new themes mediated through countless new sensibilities: nature has been discovered\, childhood\, courtly love\, modernity… the examples are perhaps endless.  Hugely rarer\, however\, is the phenomenon of which the advent of ‘groundmindedness’ is an example: the introduction to literature of a new visual subject; the birth of something that had never before been seen in that way\, the birth through technological change and advances in aviation technology of a whole new of seeing and thus describing the world. \n  \nRegistration via: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/new-culture-air-we-finally-see-groundmindedness-1930s
URL:https://t2m.org/event/from-this-new-culture-of-the-air-we-finally-see/
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