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Call: Retailing and Distribution History

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 […]

Online lecture: Public Transport and Transatlantic Scientific Echanges

Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges Friday, 26. March 2021 Lecture (virtual) | 12pm ET | Speakers: Andra B. Chastain (Washington State University Vancouver); Dhan Zunino Singh (National University of Quilmes) The German Historical Institute is pleased to announce the next session of the new virtual lecture series “Mobilities and Migration across the […]

Roundtable: Cycling in pandemic. Experiences from South America and Europe

T2M invites you to this virtual event about Cycling in Pandemic. Scholars 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. You can join us through Zoom Request the link to secretary@t2m.org<mailto:secretary@t2m.org> Presentations will be in English […]

Urban Mobility and Street Network Science

Speaker: Geoff Boeing, University of Southern California, USA The 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. Attendance is free, but pre-registration will be necessary. Please click on […]

Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practic

Speaker: Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA The 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. Attendance is free, but pre-registration will be necessary. Please click on each session […]

John Scholes Transport History Prize 2022

The John Scholes Prize is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. The prize is intended to recognise budding transport and mobility historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article, or divided between two or […]

“Our petticoats up above our knees”: Pedestrian Adventures in 19th-century Diaries

Please join us for our next Institute of Historical Research Transport & Mobility History seminar:   Thursday 10 November, 5.30pm, GMT Zoom "Our petticoats up above our knees": Pedestrian Adventures in 19th-century Diaries Trish Bredar (Northwestern University) While studies of nineteenth-century mobility often center on new technologies and infrastructural developments, this paper seeks to expand […]

Call: Current perspectives on spatial mobilities

Call for Papers Jointly organized with: Spatial Mobility Working Group of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS)   Date 30.3.2023 - 31.3.2023 Venue Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Regensburger Strasse 104 D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany Keynote speakers Clara Mulder (University of Groningen) Sergi Vidal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Organisation Sebastian […]

CfP Symposium: Knowledge production in public transport: Normativities, Actors, outcomes

Tbilisi, Georgia, 18 – 21 March 2023 The 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. Deadline 31. January, 2023 This symposium is dedicated to understanding knowledge production in public […]

Symposium: Mobility Culture: Subjects and practices in-motion

Mar del Plata, Argentina - 6 March 2023 In-person and via YouTube The 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 […]

Webinar: Automotive futures

31 March 2023, 2-4pm (Paris time) Online (on Zoom) Session 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 […]

Relieving Broadway: The politics of traffic in 19th-century New York city

Thursday 27 April, 5.30pm, Online David Schley (Hong Kong Baptist University/ University of East Anglia) Relieving Broadway: The politics of traffic in 19th-century New York city Historians 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 […]

John Scholes Transport History Research Essay Competition

The John Scholes Prize, is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. This year we’re delighted to announce that the prize will consist of; vouchers up to the value of £150 to be spent on SAGE publications , €250 […]

21st Annual T²M Conference

The picture as a poster (high resolution 500 KB) download poster The 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M) Organised by T2M and the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University) https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/ “Mobilities, Aesthetics and Ethics” 25 ~ 28 October 2023 (hybrid) […]

Call for: Mobilities Controversies – Place, Justice, Democracy

Please reserve the dates of August 22-23 2024 for the C-MUS conference on ‘Mobilities Controversies – Place, Justice, Democracy’. We are open for abstract submissions. Please find more information here: https://www.en.create.aau.dk/research/labs-and-facilities/centre-for-mobilities-and-urban-studies-c-mus/c-mus-conference-2024 Direct 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 Abstract Submission - Aalborg University (aau.dk) The deadline for abstract submissions is March 6, 2024. Confirmed keynotes: Mimi […]

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