BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://t2m.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:-03 DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Atlantic/Azores BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:+00 DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:-0100 TZNAME:-01 DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20250309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20251102T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20251003T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20251003T170000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20250913T152341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T152341Z UID:10467-1759500000-1759510800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Workshop "Things in motion. More-than-human mobilities" (In Spanish) DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nFor those who understand Spanish\, we’d like to invite you to follow our second workshop on the mobility of things.\nIt will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/@CHIHistoriaIntelectual\nOctober 3\, 2pm (Arg) \nThese workshops aim to discuss the mobility of organic and inorganic things\, proposing a dialogue between mobilities studies and the material turn\, STS\, posthumanism\, and multispecies studies. \nIn this second workshop\, we gather eleven scholars from Argentina\, Brazil\, Chile and the USA who’ll discuss the mobility of diverse objects related to music\, design\, care\, kinship\, domesticity\, illegality\, energy\, nature\, and so on. \nRegarding the first workshop\, which took place last year\, you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/live/ZGleLpg10Mw?si=ySyVxecNGwiI4NEw \nThese events are organised by Stephanie McCallum (UdeSA) and Dhan Zunino (UNQ)\, as part of the project PICT-2021-GRF-TII-00134 Objetos\, sujetos y prácticas en movimiento. Estudio interdisciplinario sobre las movilidades en Argentina (siglos XX y XXI) \nOur activities can be followed here https://espaciotecnologiacultura.wordpress.com/ \nHope you find this interesting.\nBest wishes\,\nDhan Zunino Singh\nUniversidad Nacional de Quilmes\, Argentina. URL:https://t2m.org/event/workshop-things-in-motion-more-than-human-mobilities-in-spanish/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T150000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20250416T161520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T161520Z UID:10420-1745933400-1745938800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Tourism Costs: Where are we now? DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to attend the following free on-line seminar organised by the LJMU Tourism\, Travel\, Culture and Heritage Research Group \nTourism Costs: Where are we now?\n29th April 13.30 – 15.00 (UK time)\nOnline \nPlease register via the Eventbrite page by Thursday 24th April to receive the Teams link : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300795818309?aff=oddtdtcreator \nIf you have any queries related to registration\, please contact J.F.Swainson@ljmu.ac.uk \nThe costs related to tourism development are not new. It is 45 years since the publication of Emanuel de Kadt’s Tourism: Passport to Development? Perspectives on the Social and Cultural Effects of Tourism in Developing Countries which questioned whether the economic benefits attributed to tourism development were indeed beneficial to the people and places of tourism destinations. Despite many calls to address concerns\, consider the perspective of local communities and develop sustainable tourism practices\, on-going problems associated with tourism suggests that few lessons have been learned. The year 2024 witnessed a growing number of protests about tourism in various parts of the Mediterranean. There were sensationalist headlines in the UK news media about tourists being shot at by protestors with water pistols in Barcelona\, Spain to reports of a councillor on the Greek island of Santorini telling its residents to stay at home to make room for tourists. News outlets sought the views of local people and that of tourists. The focus of concern was predominately about Europe and in places well known as popular tourist destinations. This seminar hears about not only the problems in the Mediterranean\, but also about other places where the pressures of tourism can be keenly felt. It seeks to highlight what the destinations have in common\, to ask questions about who is responsible\, what the issues are\, and can we learn anything from each other’s experiences? \nConfirmed Speakers:\nProf Macià Blázquez Salom University of the Balearics\, Mallorca\nDr Linda Osti Bangor University\, Wales UK\nDr Rabindra Sapkota\, University of Coventry\, UK URL:https://t2m.org/event/tourism-costs-where-are-we-now/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250303T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250303T180000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20250222T065319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250222T065319Z UID:10381-1741019400-1741024800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Bicycle aesthetics\, mobilities of care and equipment trajectories: An international comparison of gender construction processes around cycling equipment DESCRIPTION:Research Seminar with Dr Claire Pelgrims (Brussels) \n3 March 2025\, 16:30-18:00 GMT\nRoom A05\, LICA Building\, Lancaster Univesrity\nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjU5ZjIyZmEtNmNhNC00ZmY1LWIzNTUtNTQ5NDc5NDE3NTYx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c9bcd11-977a-4e9c-a9a0-bc734090164a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ca65b6b4-83dd-4277-93c3-ac7173967e0b%22%7d \nBicycle aesthetics\, mobilities of care and equipment trajectories: An international comparison of gender construction processes around cycling equipment \nSince the 1990s\, European cities have been developing policies to promote cycling. However\, in traditionally car-centric cities\, these mobility policies tend not to take account of the gendered aspects of cycling cultures\, and more generally of the complexity of gendered mobility trends. Like cars\, bicycles are gendered ‘attributes’\, emotionally invested objects at the heart of micro-practices that respond to dominant norms of femininity and masculinity. The diversification of bicycles and accessories that has been taking place over the last decade or so has opened the door to new gendered uses and tactics. It democratises cycling\, modulates the sporting dimension of cycling and creates new assemblages of bicycles and cyclists. Yet gender norms continue to hinder the development of cycling. \nMy postdoctoral research analyses the tensions that the aesthetic relationship between the body and the bicycle creates in the dominant norms of femininity and masculinity. It describes the assemblages formed by cyclists and their equipment within equipment trajectories that differ in the five Belgian\, French and Swiss contexts studied. The original approach of this research analyses the processes of gender construction around cycling from their aesthetic dimension\, linking bodily sensibility and affectivity. The presentation will focus in particular on affective investments in cycling objects\, customisation practices and the role of bicycles in an ethic of care\, especially when escorting children. \nClaire Pelgrims is an F.R.S. FNRS Scientific Collaborator at the Université libre de Bruxelles\, Belgium. Her research focuses on the tension between speed and slowness in the evolution of mobility\, the deployment of active mobility and social inequalities\, particularly those linked to gender. She is involved in various international networks such as the International Association for the History of Traffic\, Transport and Mobility – T2M. She recently published Histoire des transports et des mobilités en France (Armand Colin\, 2022) with L. Baldasseroni and E. Faugier and Entre vitesse et lenteur. Tension entre imaginaires de la mobilité à Bruxelles (EuB\, 2024). URL:https://t2m.org/event/bicycle-aesthetics-mobilities-of-care-and-equipment-trajectories-an-international-comparison-of-gender-construction-processes-around-cycling-equipment/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20241121T173000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20241122T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20241011T083420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T070354Z UID:10229-1732210200-1732302000@t2m.org SUMMARY:A familiar source of air pollution: steam trains and the smoke abatement movement in Britain (1910s-1960s) DESCRIPTION:SeminarSeriesTransport & Mobility HistoryAddressHybrid | Online via Zoom & IHR Seminar Room N304\, Third Floor\, IHR\, Senate House\, Malet Street\, London WC1E 7HUSpeakersArthur Émile (Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST)\, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))Event dates \n21 November 2024\, 5:30PM – 7:00PM\n\nhttps://www.history.ac.uk/events/a-familiar-source-air-pollution-steam-trains-and-smoke-abatement-movement-britain-1910s\nAdd to calendar\nContactihr.events@sas.ac.uk URL:https://t2m.org/event/a-familiar-source-of-air-pollution-steam-trains-and-the-smoke-abatement-movement-in-britain-1910s-1960s/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241108T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241108T170000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20241029T081602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T081602Z UID:10242-1731063600-1731085200@t2m.org SUMMARY:Moving Publicly\, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues\, \nTo celebrate the publication of our special issue “Moving Publicly\, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures” in English Studies in Africa ( https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reia20/67/2?nav=tocList )\,  we are organising an online launch. \nWe are delighted to have Prof. Bradley Rink (University of the Western Cape) as our invited speaker. \nTwo of our contributors\, Mapule Mohulatsi and Ye Li\, will present their articles. \nWelcome! \nDate: 8 November 2024 \nTime: 11 a.m. CET \nLink: \nhttps://uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/62057395465?pwd=IhNeD3hgMCtyrPI07UH1aOCLkaOTn6.1 \nMeeting-ID: 620 5739 5465 \nCode: 575589 URL:https://t2m.org/event/moving-publicly-writing-mobility-public-transport-in-african-literatures/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20230427T173000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20230427T183000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20230410T062620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T062620Z UID:10026-1682616600-1682620200@t2m.org SUMMARY:Relieving Broadway: The politics of traffic in 19th-century New York city DESCRIPTION:Thursday 27 April\, 5.30pm\, Online\nDavid Schley (Hong Kong Baptist University/ University of East Anglia)\nRelieving Broadway: The politics of traffic in 19th-century New York city\nHistorians usually date the origins of traffic control in the U.S. to the early twentieth century\, but in nineteenth-century Manhattan\, managing movement through the city streets was a major political project. This paper examines efforts across the nineteenth century to “relieve” Broadway\, New York’s principal thoroughfare\, of its congestion. The solutions that New Yorkers proposed\, including street openings\, traffic police\, and urban railways\, reflected divergent ideas about whose movement should be privileged and whose should be curtailed. The question of how to relieve Broadway was thus also a question about how to manage the city’s growth and how to govern a diverse population. As Broadway’s traffic intensified in the nineteenth century\, control of mobility emerged as a principal field of political conflict and government action.\nDavid Schley is an associate professor of history at Hong Kong Baptist University and a visiting researcher in the School of Art\, Media\, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He published his first book\, Steam City: Railroads\, Urban Space\, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore\, with the University of Chicago Press in 2020. His current book project is titled “Gridlocked: A History of Traffic in New York City before the Automobile.” \nAll are welcome; please sign up for the link here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/relieving-broadway-politics-traffic-nineteenth-century-new-york-city URL:https://t2m.org/event/relieving-broadway-the-politics-of-traffic-in-19th-century-new-york-city/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230331T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230331T160000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20230302T064841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T064841Z UID:10020-1680271200-1680278400@t2m.org SUMMARY:Webinar: Automotive futures DESCRIPTION:31 March 2023\, 2-4pm (Paris time)\nOnline (on Zoom)\nSession co-organised by the French Association Passé Présent Mobilité and the Vendredis Mobilité. It will be organised around a presentation of the book Post-Automobility Futures: Technology\, Power\, and Imaginaries by the authors\, followed by a discussion with Natalia Kotelnikova-Weiler based on her work on the autonomous vehicle. \nApparatuses of the Anthropocene: Automobility\nIn their recent book\, Post-Automobility Futures: Technology\, Power\, and Imaginaries\, Robert Braun and Richard Randell argue that automobility is an “ill-named thing.” In this webinar they will provide a brief overview of how automobility is conceptualized in their book and why they think “automobility” is an “ill” name. The key argument in the book and in their other publications is that automobility is a political ontology that suppresses and conceals the violent mechanisms\, processes\, and agencies by and through which automobility is continuously and routinely constituted. The second part of the talk will focus on their current work on automobility and its relationship to the Anthropocene. If the Anthropocene is conceptualized not as a geological epoch but as a political ontology\, automobility provides us with a window into how the Anthropocene has been constituted\, how it is reproduced\, what it is. We need to get beyond thinking about automobility and the Anthropocene in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and instead think about automobility as one of the central apparatuses of the Anthropocene. \nRobert Braun and Richard Randell\, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienne\,\nNatalia Kotelnikova-Weiler\, LVMT\, Université Gustave Eiffel. \nFurther details see : https://vmob.hypotheses.org/\nRegistration : https://framaforms.org/vmob-31st-of-march-2023-14-1600-paris-time-automotive-futures-1677682672 URL:https://t2m.org/event/webinar-automotive-futures/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230330T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230330T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20230302T080743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T080743Z UID:10022-1680197400-1680202800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Online seminar: "Close Contact”: skin and the space of the nineteenth-century omnibus DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey) \nThis paper offers an exploration into reading transport and mobility histories through the lens of the skin. Amid wider critical attention to embodied experiences of travel\, the outermost surface of the body holds much potential as a site of visual\, tactile\, and sensory encounter with transport spaces. In this talk\, I focus such a reading on the especially “close contact” of omnibus travel as it appears in 19th-century visual and literary representations. Whether in the confines of the omnibus interior\, or exposed to the elements outside\, skin is situated as intermediary between the surrounding space and the sensing\, moving subject; it is also a site for visual inspection by and of others\, with the potential to be (mis-)read through and in relation to social and cultural discourses; and it holds the possibility of direct\, potentially transgressive\, bodily contact between passengers. Meanwhile the commercial sphere of skincare percolated through the visual field of travel in the form of advertisements inside and around the omnibus. Reading omnibus travel through appearances of skin is illustrative both in extending commentary upon its particularities as a public transport space\, as well as positing broader perspectives for reading the bodily\, social\, and spatial interactions of transport and mobility histories. \nAs ever\, all are welcome to join us – for the link and joining details\, please book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/close-contact-skin-and-space-nineteenth-century-omnibus \n(The eagle-eyed amongst you will note that Charlotte is a familiar person: she’s part of the seminar convening team\, and has played an active role in organising and hosting the series over the years. Now the tables are turned …) URL:https://t2m.org/event/online-seminar-close-contact-skin-and-the-space-of-the-nineteenth-century-omnibus/ CATEGORIES:online seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Transport_20and_20Mobility.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221215T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221215T173000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20221112T074332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221112T074332Z UID:9984-1671125400-1671125400@t2m.org SUMMARY:‘To whom it doth belong’: highways\, law and governance in the parish of Halifax\, c.1550-1700 DESCRIPTION:Thursday 15 December\, 5.30pm GMT \nMurray Seccombe (University of Lancaster) \n‘To whom it doth belong’: highways\, law and governance in the parish of Halifax\, c.1550-1700 \nOnline and in person (Room N301\, IHR\, Senate House\, London) \nEver since the Webbs\, Tudor highway legislation has been perceived as foreshadowing the use of the parish for implementing statutory policy at local level. This paper will summarise research findings that qualify this view by emphasising the continuing and creative role of manorial courts in managing nuisances and highway repairs across the industrialising townships of Halifax parish. Both tenurial and local (township) liabilities were invoked to help maintain and strengthen a network that served the changing needs brought on by social and economic change. The co-option of manors and township officeholders for infrastructural management created a formative\, but hitherto largely unrecognised\, opportunity for strengthening local governance capacity. This adds nuance and depth to conceptualisations of state formation developed by Steve Hindle and Mike Braddick. \nAll are warmly invited; please register here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/whom-it-doth-belong-highways-law-and-governance-parish-halifax-c1550-1700 \nWe look forward to seeing you in person and online at the seminar. \n  URL:https://t2m.org/event/to-whom-it-doth-belong-highways-law-and-governance-in-the-parish-of-halifax-c-1550-1700/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221111 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20221028T115756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T094951Z UID:9908-1668038400-1668124799@t2m.org SUMMARY:"Our petticoats up above our knees": Pedestrian Adventures in 19th-century Diaries DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar: \n  \nThursday 10 November\, 5.30pm\, GMT Zoom \n“Our petticoats up above our knees”: Pedestrian Adventures in 19th-century Diaries \nTrish Bredar (Northwestern University) \nWhile studies of nineteenth-century mobility often center on new technologies and infrastructural developments\, this paper seeks to expand and enliven our understanding of that oldest and most “pedestrian” mode of transport—walking. In particular\, it explores how a greater attention to walking’s everyday-ness might alter our understanding of what it meant to move through the world as a woman in the nineteenth-century. Whereas the female pedestrian in this period has long been understood as an inherently constrained or transgressive figure\, this paper offers an additional paradigm\, drawing on a corpus of unpublished diaries to situate walking as an everyday adventure\, an act that is powerful in its simultaneous ordinariness and its capacity to invite the unexpected. \nAll are welcome\, though please register in advance for the link via this booking system: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/our-petticoats-above-our-knees-pedestrian-adventures-nineteenth-century-diaries \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nThe seminar convenors: \nAparajita Mukhopadhyay\, Charlotte Mathieson\, David Turner\, Mike Esbester\, Lewis Smith\, Oli Betts & Tamara Thornhill URL:https://t2m.org/event/test/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220609T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220609T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T033653 CREATED:20220508T060120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220508T060456Z UID:9869-1654795800-1654801200@t2m.org SUMMARY:'Trams and Dusty Trees': Literary Modernism and London's Electric Tramways\, 1901-1927 DESCRIPTION:The next Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar takes place online on 9 June – all are welcome\, but you’ll need to register in advance.\n\n  \nThursday 9 June\, 17.30 UTC+1\, online \n‘Trams and Dusty Trees’: Literary Modernism and London’s Electric Tramways\, 1901-1927 \nJason Finch (Åbo Akademi University\, Finland) \n  \nOne of the less-discussed entries of contemporary London into T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land is a verbless four-word sentence: ‘Trams and Dusty Trees.’ These words are the jumping-off point for an exploration in my paper of how London’s electric tramways punctuate the work of literary modernists including Eliot\, Ford Madox Ford and Virginia Woolf. The recent upsurge in uses of mobility and mobilities as concepts by literary scholars such as Sarah Gibson\, Charlotte Mathieson\, Lynne Pearce calls for assessment alongside a continued difficulty in aligning the urban perspectives found in studies of transport history with those critics identify in imaginative literature. Documented fact and allusive association\, however\, do meet one another in these modernist tram representations. Written texts\, like visual images as analysed in the work of cultural geographers such as Denis Cosgrove\, shape perceptions of landscape and place. Yet their relationship with timetables\, documentary photographic evidence\, surviving material culture\, or sources charting financing and political debates at local\, municipal and national levels over London’s tramways in the first decades of the twentieth century remains an elusive one. This paper aims to elucidate the relationship. Tramways could seem peripheral to modernist literature and art in an era often thought to have idolised acceleration and the unprecedented experiential qualities of the automobile or aeroplane. Charting trams’ place in writing by Ford\, Eliot and Woolf\, however\, reveals them as a key to a class-segregated and segmented vision of modern urban cartographies. Moreover\, Ford and Woolf derive from trams a metropolitan soundscape hard to grasp after the 1952 disappearance of trams from the streets of London. This literary act contributes to understanding of what we can call the city’s ‘tramscapes’ in the first half of the twentieth century. \n  \nRegister here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/trams-and-dusty-trees-literary-modernism-and-londons-electric-tramways-1901-27 URL:https://t2m.org/event/trams-and-dusty-trees-literary-modernism-and-londons-electric-tramways-1901-1927/ CATEGORIES:online seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR