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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260620T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T063053Z CREATED:20260504T062739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260504T063053Z UID:10666-1781942400-1781974800@t2m.org 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  URL:https://t2m.org/event/transport-mobility-tourism-degrowth-demobility-sustainable-development-call/ CATEGORIES:call for conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Transports-mobilites-tourisme.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260615T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260615T170000 DTSTAMP:20260603T140503Z CREATED:20251212T142506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T140503Z UID:10600-1781510400-1781542800@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260614 DTSTAMP:20251104T211045Z CREATED:20251104T211045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T211045Z UID:10484-1781136000-1781395199@t2m.org SUMMARY: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. \nFor more information see: https://www.smhy.fi/en/activities/travellers-sea-conference URL:https://t2m.org/event/travellers-of-the-sea-conference-on-maritime-history-marine-archaeology-and-ethnology/ CATEGORIES:conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260508 DTSTAMP:20251031T140154Z CREATED:20251031T140154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T140154Z UID:10479-1778112000-1778198399@t2m.org SUMMARY:24th European Transport Congress "Resilient and Reliable Mobility Systems: Insights from Science and Practice" 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). URL:https://t2m.org/event/24th-european-transport-congress-resilient-and-reliable-mobility-systems-insights-from-science-and-practice/ CATEGORIES:conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416 DTSTAMP:20260324T113035Z CREATED:20260324T113035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T113035Z UID:10631-1776211200-1776297599@t2m.org SUMMARY:CfP Special Issue Transfers Journal (CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS \nFor a SPECIAL ISSUE to be published in Transfers Journal – Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies \n(CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS \nMotorways are neither inherently popular nor a “natural” outcome of motorization (Avila 2014; Kunze 2022; Magalhães 2024). Instead\, road building projects have always faced criticism\, even if much of the contestation remains marginalized (North 1998\, McNeish 1999). The construction of motorways worldwide is the result of sharp transnational political wills and the work of strong lobbies promoting motorization. Motorways shape collective and individual imaginaries of both landscapes and mobilities\, while functioning as political and economic instruments of power (Anand\, Gupta & Appel 2018; Coutard 2024). They lie at the center of socioecological controversies\, reflecting divergent visions of society (Seiler 2009) – some defending progress embodied by the infrastructure\, others highlighting its negative externalities. Many scholars depict motorways as scars on urban and rural landscapes\, emblematic of disruption and inequality (Avila 2014; Lewis 1997)\, and even as “an everyday form of devastation” (Williams 2025\, ix). Recent scholarly work further challenges their status as inevitable infrastructures of modernity and progress\, framing them instead as terrains of political struggle and contestation – criticized for their high financial and socioecological costs\, their reinforcement of motorization\, and their incompatibility with sustainability and climate goals (Magalhães 2024; Williams 2025). \nThe first motorway projects are almost as old as the automobile itself. However\, the idea of a road network exclusively for motorized traffic struggled to gain acceptance before World War II\, when only a very small minority of people owned cars. The 1950’s marked a key moment in the development of motorways and the global spread of motorization (Lewis 1997; Merriman 2007). While a common drive to construct motorways spanned Europe\, America\, and Oceania\, the rationales and methods varied significantly across contexts. Some countries prioritized extensive intercity networks\, others focused on ring roads to divert traffic from urban cores. These projects were shaped by diverse forces—ranging from lobbying by tourism\, automotive\, and oil industries to militarized agendas intertwined with economic arguments—revealing that the grounds for motorway building were far from uniform. The motorway embodies the social and economic aim of unimpeded circulation\, speed and connectivity\, openness\, political liberalism and economic prosperity (Harvey & Knox\, 2016; Kuligowsky 2019). Nowadays\, motorway networks remain considered as material and symbolic markers of development\, including in the Global South. Therefore\, motorway projects endure\, whether new constructions\, expansions\, or widenings. States continue to build and complete networks revealing socio-technical barriers that seem impossible to overcome (Mattioli et al.\, 2020; Jones and McCreary 2022). Despite the 2015 Paris Agreement and the urgent need to reduce worldwide CO2 emissions\, large road infrastructures emerge as sites of complex struggles involving competing visions between political authorities\, engineers\, developers\, commuters\, tourists\, local residents and ecologists. Motorway development has occurred at the cost of dispossession\, an aggravation of car dependency and environmental disasters. Debates on motorway projects expose tensions between planning objectives and residents lived realities (Seiler 2009; Kuligowsky 2019; Senior et al. 2024). Criticism of the motorway concept emerged as early as the first experiments in the interwar period and the 1950’s (Merriman 2017; Kunze 2022). Contestations of urban motorways in Western countries\, spurred by the rise of political ecology in the 1960’s and 1970’s\, drove sociotechnical changes that introduced pollution-mitigation technologies such as noise barriers\, tunnels\, and trenches. Yet\, while these measures encouraged more participatory policies and planning\, they largely served to increase public acceptability and deflect criticism rather than to limit further motorway expansion. Nowadays\, the contestation of large road infrastructure remains important\, at least in contexts where the voices of the opponents can be heard. Contestation over motorways reflects broader debates about modernity\, progress\, mobility\, sustainability\, and urbanity. Recent examples include the A69 motorway in Southwestern France\, which sparked strong environmental\, political\, and legal disputes\, and Switzerland’s 2024 referendum that unexpectedly resulted in the rejection of six motorway expansion projects after intense national discussions on the future of mobility. These cases illustrate how opposition extends beyond halting new construction to include initiatives for motorway removal or repurposing\, aligning with wider goals of sustainable urban development and liveable cities. \nThe special issue will gather empirical articles broadly engaging with the promotion\, support and refusal of motorway projects either in the past and in the present days. Contributions may also thematize the motorway as a physical place of contestation or activism. Conceptually\, the articles can engage with different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds including work on the system of automobility\, mobility justice and social movement theory. \nResearch perspectives could include (but are not limited to): \n\nPROMOTING AND DEFENDING MOTORWAYS: Advocates of motorways have advanced\n\na powerful\, optimistic narrative emphasizing their promises—framed around the ideas of safety\, reduced congestion\, socioeconomic progress\, speed\, efficiency and enhanced regional accessibility—while simultaneously deploying diverse strategies to deflect and manage criticism. How can we explain the emergence of the concept of motorways as exclusive spaces for motorized transport\, sidelining other modes? How is this idea promoted\, and through which arguments and political strategies? \n\nOPPOSING MOTORWAY PROJECTS: In what contexts are motorways contested\, and through which arguments? Resistance emerges across civil society and politics—from left-wing groups to the far right\, from public transport advocates to intellectual circles. These movements are highly diverse\, encompassing property owners\, municipalities\, neighborhood associations\, environmental organizations\, and mobility or planning experts. Their motivations range from environmental and health concerns (soil degradation\, pollution\, biodiversity\, climate change) to socioeconomic issues (territorial fragmentation\, economic impacts on alternative routes) and heritage preservation (loss of landscapes\, homes\, and cultural sites).\n\nPotential topics may include the following: \n\nThe expansion of national and international road networks and their contestation\nDiscourses on capacity\, induced traffic\, safety\, and efficiency\nTransnational knowledge circuits in motorway development\nAssumptions behind transportation governance and urban planning\nMotorways as space of escape and the ways markers of social difference (race\, ethnicity\,\n\ngender…) affects motorway users. \n\nRoad ecology or more specifically motorway ecology\nAlternative projects to motorways or removal and transformations\nSociospatial inequalities and silences in motorway refusal histories\n\nThis special issue will be edited by Suzy Blondin\, Manon Espinasse\, Andrea Pimentel Rivera and Tiphaine Robert. The editors (with Transfers editorship) will select the contributions based on originality\, relevance and scientific quality. \nAbstract deadline: 15 April 2026 \nPlease send your abstract to tiphaine.robert@unibe.ch \nThe abstract should include: \n\nName\, affiliation and e-mail address\nShort biography (100 words)\nExtended abstract of 1000 words including the title of the article\, a mention of the relevant\n\ntopic/research questions addressed. \nFor more information\, please do not hesitate to contact us. \nMore information on the Journal website: \nhttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/transfers-overview.xml URL:https://t2m.org/event/cfp-special-issue-transfers-journal-contested-motorways/ CATEGORIES:call for journal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260131T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260131T170000 DTSTAMP:20251223T083408Z CREATED:20251223T083408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T083408Z UID:10617-1769846400-1769878800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Call for Special Issue: “Infrastructuring Mobilities: Backbones and Entanglements of Leisure\, Tourism and Migration” DESCRIPTION:Mobility Humanities Special Issue (for publication July 2027) \nCALL FOR PAPERS \n“INFRASTRUCTURING MOBILITIES:\nBACKBONES AND ENTANGLEMENTS OF LEISURE\, TOURISM AND MIGRATION” \nGuest Editors:\nThiago Allis\, University of São Paulo\, Brazil\nFranz Buhr\, University of Lisbon\, Portugal\nJessica Frazão\, University of São Paulo\, Brazil \nIn the broad context of contemporary mobilities\, recent developments in mobility infrastructures are reshaping how people travel and experience tourism-oriented routines. From face recognition at passport control to AI-assisted holiday planning\, these infrastructures—whether material or digital—underpin diverse forms of (im)mobility. Thinking through infrastructures allows us to understand not only how people\, information\, waste\, drugs\, suitcases\, and images circulate\, but also how they ‘land’ in specific destinations\, transforming spaces and local social dynamics. Not only airports or coffee shops\, but entire urban neighbourhoods and ‘neo-rural’ attractions have emerged or changed in order to accommodate\, facilitate\, or restrict different kinds of mobility (for instance\, digital nomads and asylum seekers\, or the so-called ‘mass’ tourists and visitors seeking “off-the-beaten-track” experiences). To the familiar repertoire of mobility infrastructures—hotels\, airports\, tourist information centres\, and souvenir shops—one can now add new amenities such as coliving spaces\, coworking hubs\, and app-generated personalised tours. \nIn this special issue\, we approach infrastructures as “systematically interlinked technologies\, institutions and actors that facilitate and condition mobility” (Xiang & Lindquist 2014\, 122). This definition expands the notion of infrastructure to include both human and non-human agents implicated in shaping mobility. At the same time\, we \nrecognise that infrastructures can themselves be mobile\, ephemeral\, and bottom-up (Meeus\, Arnaut & van Heur 2019)\, as well as enduring and capable of sustaining mobility not only as dislocation but also as a defining feature of contemporary lifestyles (Jung & Buhr 2023). \nMobility has always depended on apparatuses that channel flows\, set directions\, and regulate their pace—accelerating some movements while slowing down or blocking others. Kevin Hannam\, Mimi Sheller and John Urry (Urry\, 2003; Hannam et al.\, 2006) originally conceptualised – followed by others (Freire-Medeiros & Vianna Pinho\, 2024) – the discussion of the mobility–moorings dialectic\, shedding light on the relatively stable systems that enable\, shape\, or constrain movement. The strength of analytically examining infrastructures\, rather than simply assuming phenomena as ‘more’ or ‘less’ mobile\, enables a contextualised analysis of mobility and its embeddedness in multi-scalar regimes of power (Glick Schiller & Salazar 2012)\, generating uneven and often deeply unequal patterns of movement—such as migration policies’ implicit distinction between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’ tourists or migrants. \nInfrastructures are the architecture for circulation (Larkin 2013) and\, as such\, they may be more or less visible\, mundane\, taken for granted\, as well as spectacular\, highly politicised\, and in constant dispute. Like other forms of architecture\, mobility infrastructures are built or composed by people\, requiring little or huge amounts of money\, aiming to tackle perceived issues\, and targeting specific social groups and their needs. They may be lucrative\, public\, (un)official\, answer to the demands of social civil movements\, as well as mirror existing forms of racism\, misogyny\, xenophobia\, homophobia\, classism\, etc. Think of walls and barbed wire splitting countries and fast-track corridors for VIP passengers at airports; or of refugee camps and luxury hotels; of soup kitchens for homeless migrants and coworking cafés for digital nomads; women-only tourism packages and sex tourism\, for example. Think also about the bodies that are allowed to move freely across the globe and those who are constantly stopped and checked\, if not denied transit. \nExploring the infrastructuring role of these emerging materialities in popular leisure destinations helps to unpack how ‘hip’ places transform themselves\, adapt to new consumption habits\, and tourists’ aesthetic preferences – often to the detriment of longer-term residents’ claims. Or\, on the contrary\, how certain infrastructures shut down (think of street-level travel agencies)\, go bankrupt\, or move somewhere else. The physicality of infrastructures adds new matter to neighbourhoods (e.g.\, boutique hotels\, amusement parks\, gourmet markets\, surf schools\, minimalist coworking cafés\, Instagrammable brunch eateries\, etc.). These leisure amenities facilitate short-term travel\, networking\, group excursions\, physical exercise\, etc. They accommodate the needs of various kinds of mobile lifestyles\, whose movements “resonate with and cut across people and things\, spaces and subjects” (Merriman 2016\, 85). Infrastructures\, nevertheless\, are integral to the reproduction of certain kinds of mobility privilege and mobility precarity. Aerial life (Adey\, 2010)\, for instance\, is not free of relations of power: it produces and reproduces social differentiation\, unevenness\, and inequalities (Murray\, \nSawchuk\, Jirón\, 2016)\, constituting regimes of mobility that affect and shape individual movement across the globe (Glick Shiller\, Salazar\, 2012). \nThe way cities increasingly cater to leisure-seeking global middle classes may be more or less exclusive and accentuate existing local fractures. Similarly\, examining virtual mobility infrastructures prompts critical questions about the influence of algorithmic knowledge—shaping everything from the very destination choice to the tailor-made visit itineraries proposed by smartphone apps\, also including the emergence of fully virtual tourism experiences. Not to mention the paraphernalia that shape work-on-the-move routines of the corporate travel\, increasingly mingled with leisure activities\, fostering the so-called “bleisure” programs (Lichy & McLeay\, 2018). \nWith this call for papers\, we aim to bring together research that places the infrastructural production of leisure mobilities at its centre. We define leisure mobilities broadly\, including tourism\, leisure-led migration\, lifestyle migration\, digital nomadism\, and other related forms of movement\, especially those located closer to the voluntary side of the voluntary-involuntary spectrum driving migration. Anchored in the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller & Urry 2006)\, this special issue will shed light on the practices\, actors\, policies and technologies that enable or deter multiple and not always obvious tourism-like experiences of mobility. \nWith this background in mind\, this call for papers aims to foster creative interdisciplinary debates on mobility and infrastructures. In doing so\, it echoes the efforts of Mobility Humanities to “pluralise” (Adey et al.\, 2024) infrastructures in the domain of mobility studies\, with special attention to auspicious theoretical developments and the dissemination of methodological practices on leisure\, tourism\, and migration research agendas. \nTopics and Themes \nWe welcome contributions critically addressing\, but not limited to\, the following themes:\n● Making visible the often-invisibilised infrastructures and the affordances of mobility\, travel\, tourism\, and migration;\n● New tourism experiences enabled by emerging mobility infrastructures (AI\, travel apps\, thematic apps guiding visitors to niche markets\, etc.);\n● Social dynamics and experiences produced through new mobility infrastructures (e.g.\, the use of dating apps\, technologies designed to meet other tourists sharing similar interests\, or connecting ‘like-minded’ people staying temporarily at a given place\, etc.);\n● Urban change (such as touristification\, gentrification\, foodification\, gaytrification) as a process of infrastructuring and its impact on local livelihoods and destinations’ ‘vibes’;\n● Mobility infrastructures as potential mediation tools between visitors and residents;\n● Mobility infrastructures as technologies of control/othering/bordering\, possibly reinforcing structural inequalities in travel\, access to leisure\, and the right to the city;\n● Uses of infrastructure as a lens to analyse contemporary cultural products (films\, novels\, series\, etc.) discussing leisure-led mobilities in various contexts;\n● Gendered\, racialised and/or intersectional (im)mobilities in postcolonial contexts and its entanglements with leisure\, tourism and migration;\n● Frictions of leisure\, diversity and mobile justice and its dependence on infrastructures;\n● Agency of things\, more-than-human mobilities\, and material culture as a reference for the study of leisure-oriented mobilities. \nWe also encourage submissions that explore other related topics from critical\, comparative\, or interdisciplinary perspectives. \nSubmission of Abstracts and Manuscripts \n– Deadline for abstract submission (300 words) – January 31st 2026 (email to the guest editors)\n– Response to the authors (abstracts) – up to March 1st 2026\n– Deadline for full paper submission (7000-8000 words) – July 31th 2026\n– Response to authors (paper review period) – up to December 20th 2026\n– Publication – July 2027 \nAuthor Guidelines \n1. Authors must follow specific guidelines for Mobility Humanities and ensure that contributions cover the journal’s publication criteria.\n2. The Call for Papers is open to a global audience and manuscripts must be written in English.\n3. After the guest editors inform the abstracts that they are accepted\, Full Papers should be submitted via the submission portal with the notification of the special issue.\n4. Once papers are accepted\, they will be published online and printed. \nSubmission Guidelines https://journal-mobilityhumanities.com/guidelines/manuscript-submission \nSubmission Portal https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/mobilityhumanities \nQueries \nFor questions regarding the special issue\, please contact guest editors Dr. Thiago Allis (thiagoallis@usp.br)\, Dr. Franz Buhr (fbuhr@edu.ulisboa.pt) and Dr. Jessica Frazão (jessica.frazao@gmail.com). \nThe Guest Editors \nDr. Thiago Allis is Associate Professor at the School of Art\, Sciences and Humanities\, at the University of São Paulo (Brazi)\, and leader of the Research Group on Tourism and Mobilities (MobTur). His research relies on qualitative mobile methods and focuses on the multiple dimensions of mobilities (corporeal\, objects\, images\, communicative) combined with tourism\, including urban tourism\, academic mobilities\, and aeromobilities. \nDr. Franz Buhr is a researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) – University of Lisbon (Portugal)\, where he writes about the intersections between migration and urban change. He has worked on migrants’ everyday mobilities in Lisbon\, on migrant entrepreneurship and transnational gentrification\, and is currently working on the relationship between digital nomadism and city transformation in Portugal. \nDr. Jessica Frazão is a member of the Research Group on Tourism and Mobilities (MobTur). 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(2019) Arrival Infrastructures: Migration and Urban Social Mobilities. London: Palgrave Macmillan\nMerriman\, P. (2016) Mobility Infrastructures: Modern Visions\, Affective Environments and the Problem of Car Parking\, Mobilities. 11(1)\, 83-98\, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2015.1097036\nMurray\, L.\, Sawchuk\, K.\, & Jirón\, P. (2016). Comparative mobilities in an unequal world: researching intersections of gender and generation. Mobilities\, 11(4)\, 542-552. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1211822\nSalazar\, N. B.\, & Schiller\, N. G. (2014). Regimes of Mobility. London: Routledge.\nSheller\, M.\, & Urry\, J. (2006). The New Mobilities Paradigm. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space\, 38(2)\, 207-226. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37268\nUrry\, J. (2003). Global Complexity. Cambridge\, Polity Press\nXiang\, B. & Lindquist\, J. (2014) Migration Infrastructure\, International Migration Review 48 (S1): S122–S48\, https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12141 URL:https://t2m.org/event/call-for-special-issue-infrastructuring-mobilities-backbones-and-entanglements-of-leisure-tourism-and-migration/ CATEGORIES:call for journal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251205T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251206T170000 DTSTAMP:20251031T131158Z CREATED:20250821T051544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T131158Z UID:10464-1764921600-1765040400@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference,conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251116 DTSTAMP:20251031T135700Z CREATED:20251031T135514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T135700Z UID:10476-1763164800-1763251199@t2m.org 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 \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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251111 DTSTAMP:20251105T132707Z CREATED:20251105T132707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T132707Z UID:10487-1762732800-1762819199@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251108 DTSTAMP:20250517T053716Z CREATED:20250324T080815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T053716Z UID:10396-1762214400-1762559999@t2m.org 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 URL:https://t2m.org/event/10396/ CATEGORIES:call for conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/logo-conference-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20251003T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20251003T170000 DTSTAMP:20250913T152341Z 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=America/Halifax:20250930T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250930T170000 DTSTAMP:20250809T082132Z CREATED:20250809T082132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250809T082132Z UID:10460-1759219200-1759251600@t2m.org SUMMARY:Imagining the Railway\, 1900 to the Present DESCRIPTION:Mobility Humanities Special Issue (for publication January 2028)\nCALL FOR PAPERS\n“Imagining the Railway\, 1900 to the Present”\nGuest Editors:\nAdam Borch\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland\nJason Finch\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland\nFrederik Van Dam\, Radboud University\, Netherlands\nWe invite scholars to submit article proposals for a special issue in the open-access journal Mobility Humanities on the cultural impact of the railway since 1900. Scholars from any disciplinary background are welcome\, although the special issue is likely to be of particular interest to those working in areas like mobility humanities\, literary\, film or visual studies\, cultural geography and transport history.\nIn the nineteenth century\, the expansion and use of trains changed people’s perception of the world. Following Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s pioneering work\, scholars have documented the myriad ways in which the nineteenth-century railway changed the experience of travelling and influenced the form and creation of different cultural media. The history of the railway in the more recent past\, in which the train’s dominance as a form of transport was challenged by the automobile and the aeroplane\, has received comparatively little attention. This special issue aims to highlight the fact that the railway remained a significant influence on artistic development and cultural practices: as novels by Graham Greene and Toni Morrison attest\, for instance\, trains have been invested with new imaginative possibilities during the twentieth century and since\, and these are deserving of sustained critical attention.\nThis special issue will therefore explore the literary and cultural significance of the railway from 1900 to the present. In doing so\, it seeks to take stock of new insights from the fields of mobility studies and infrastructure studies. We welcome proposals that focus on the relationship between the railway and literature\, cinema\, the visual arts\, music\, games\, and/or other cultural modes.\nThemes to be explored include\, but are not limited to\, the following:\n• the railway and (literary and/or artistic) form\n• gender and sexual identity\n• (post)colonial perspectives\n• railway and war\n• experiences of long-distance travel\n• experiences of commuting\n• spaces of the railway\n• the railway’s impact on landscape and environment\n• comparisons between literary and visual depictions of the railway\nIf you are interested\, please send a proposal of max. 500 words to the editors no later than 30 September 2025. All abstracts should include a title as well as the names\, affiliations and email addresses of all authors. Please also provide a short bio (max. 100 words) for each author.\nImportant Dates\n• 30 September 2025: deadline for submission of article proposals.\n• 31 October 2025: authors notified about acceptance/rejection of their proposal\n• 30 June 2026: deadline for submission of full articles (c.8\,000 words) for peer review\n• 1 January 2028: publication of Special Issue in Mobility Humanities\nNB. Mobility Humanities offers the possibility of publishing articles online-first during 2027.\nSubmission Guidelines: https://journal-mobilityhumanities.com/guidelines/manuscript-submission\nSubmission Portal: Abstract and final paper must be emailed to Adam Borch\, Jason Finch\, and Frederik Van Dam prior to the submission at the Mobility Humanities portal (https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/mobilityhumanities) URL:https://t2m.org/event/imagining-the-railway-1900-to-the-present/ CATEGORIES:call for journal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250715T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250715T170000 DTSTAMP:20250517T053829Z CREATED:20250515T050435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T053829Z UID:10431-1752566400-1752598800@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250620T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250620T170000 DTSTAMP:20250517T054022Z CREATED:20250517T054022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T054022Z UID:10435-1750406400-1750438800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Cemore Summer Symposium: Making Connections DESCRIPTION:Lancaster University\, Friday 20th June\, 1-4pm\, in person presentations\, with hybrid attendance. \nYou are pleased to invite you to attend the Cemore Summer Symposium\, an opportunity to get together with mobilities researchers from Lancaster and further afield\, to share our research\, celebrate success\, and maybe spark some new collaborations.\nWe look forward to welcoming guest mobilities researchers Lucia Quaquarelli and Adrien Frenay from Université Paris Nanterre\, France; Jason Finch\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland; and Kate Moles\, Cardiff University\, UK\, alongside a series of short presentations of current research from Cemore members and directors. The main symposium from 1-4pm will only host in-person presentations\, and the full program will be available in late May.\nWe welcome the wider mobilities community to join us online\, we’d love to see you!\nWe have ten places available for a fully hybrid PhD & ECR event from 10am-12pm on 20th June\, please send 150 word abstracts for a 5-minute presentation about your work in progress to cemore@lancaster.ac.uk . This element of the event will be hybrid and we welcome online contributions in order to facilitate low / no cost participation.\nBoth events are free but please register here for tickets and to receive the links: https://cemore_summer_symposium.eventbrite.co.uk \nWith best wishes\nJen Southern & Lynne Pearce\, Cemore Co-Directors. URL:https://t2m.org/event/cemore-summer-symposium-making-connections/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250615T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250615T170000 DTSTAMP:20250527T091714Z CREATED:20250527T091547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T091714Z UID:10439-1749974400-1750006800@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250429T150000 DTSTAMP:20250416T161520Z 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=America/Halifax:20250403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250615T170000 DTSTAMP:20250403T104142Z CREATED:20250403T104142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T104142Z UID:10414-1743667200-1750006800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Mobile cultures and the anthropocene: Territories\, societies\, temporalities DESCRIPTION:1\nCALL FOR PAPERS\nSPECIAL ISSUE: “MOBILE CULTURES AND THE ANTHROPOCENE: TERRITORIES\, SOCIETIES\, TEMPORALITIES”\nGuest editors: Dr Nathalie Roseau (nathalie.roseau@enpc.fr)\, École nationale des ponts et chaussées\nAbstract deadline: 15 July 2025\nResearch on mobility has shown considerable interest in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to history in order to renew knowledge of transport. Among the issues brought to light by these perspectives\, the question of the environment is central. Because transport affects the territories we inhabit\, because it reflects the way societies are nurtured by technology\, the mobilisation of history and its long-term perspectives shed light on the footprints our mobility patterns have left on the Earth. Their material impact\, which is reflected in the interweaving of the technical\, social and entrepreneurial infrastructures they have constituted over the long term; the change in representations – of movement\, space and ways of life – that they have initiated.\nThis special issue of The Journal of Transport History examines the relationship between mobile cultures and the Anthropocene from an interdisciplinary perspective. Describing the impact of humans on the Earth and the alteration of the biosphere by their actions\, the term Anthropocene was reintroduced in 2002 by Paul Crutzen\, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and specialist in Earth system sciences\, when he published a highly influential article “Geology of Mankind: the Anthropocene” in the journal Nature. While the Anthropocene refers to a new geological epoch or event resulting from human activities with dramatic consequences for the climate and the atmosphere\, the term and its meanings remain debated and contested\, in the chronostratigraphic community\n2\n(International Union of Geological Sciences\, 2024)\, but also in the earth-system science and the social sciences\, whether in terms of its temporalities or its anthropocentric perspective (Steffen et al.\, 2011; Steffen et al.\, 2015; Bonneuil and Fressoz\, 2016; Chakrabarty\, 2021). Similarly\, proposals for a change of ecological course are contrasting and hotly debated\, ranging from energy de-growth to frugal sobriety or confidence in technological renewal\, the responses to which sometimes consist of solutions similar to those that created the problems in the first place.\nWe could add a new term to this spectrum: kinecene (Roseau\, 2024) in order to understand the way mobile cultures became anchored in our societies and the imprints they left on the Earth. Mobile cultures encompass the social meanings generated through a diversity of mediations and powers\, that set of uses and representations that gradually shaped the relationship between travel techniques and environments. From prototype to industry\, from elite practice to mass transportation\, from infrastructure to superstructure\, inventions related to the transportation of people\, materials and information have emerged as essential technological systems\, with considerable global economic heft and an equally considerable environmental impact.\nHistory is considered here as “problematic” to use the words of Lucien Febvre\, that is to say that it “poses problems to the past according to the present needs of humanity”\, and thus allows us to better understand current events in which we are both actors and spectators (Febvre\, 1946). By focusing on a dialogue between the objects and questions raised by mobile cultures and the panorama of issues related to the Anthropocene\, the retrospective perspective we propose aims to reopen historiography and reformulate research perspectives in order to understand the interdependencies of scales and boundaries that affect our environments over the long term. Conversely\, adopting a perspective that places mobile cultures in the Anthropocene time on which we are focusing commits us to renewing our understanding of the disciplinary and historiographical fields through which we analyse mobile cultures\, to exploring their margins\, to identifying their hidden faces and to reopening their potentialities. By showing what our pasts have accomplished\, it ultimately provides a reflection on our relationship to the future.\nThis special issue follows on from a panel1 held at the virtual T2M conference in 2021 (Lisbon) and the publication of Nathalie Roseau’s article in The Journal of Transport History entitled “Mobile cultures and the Anthropocene” (Roseau\, 2022)\, which explored these issues from the perspective of aerial culture. Following on from this exploratory discussion\, this call for papers therefore aims to open up an entangled approach to history by encouraging dialogue between different disciplinary fields and historiographical segments; by promoting situated research\, at the junction of theoretical discussion and empirical fieldworks; by encouraging a shift in attention to the margins and a repositioning of the centrality of key issues. As such\, the formulation of the subjects should make it possible to renew and enlarge the objects of inquiry in history: territories as palimpsests\, aerospace\, sea lands\, consumption and energy\, speed and acceleration\, etc. The approach could not only be permeable to other disciplines (anthropology\, geography\, political science\, science and technology studies\, sociology\, urbanism\, visual\n1 Including the papers of Carlos Lopez Galviz\, Arnaud Passalacqua\, Guillaume de Syon\, and Nathalie Roseau\n3\nculture\, etc.) and their contemporary concerns\, but also bring together approaches that are often fragmented but essential to the understanding of the history of transport.\nThis special issue will be guest edited by Dr. Nathalie Roseau (Nathalie.roseau@enpc.fr)\, professor of urbanism at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées\, and tenured researcher at the Laboratoire Techniques\, Territoires et Sociétés\, who will select (with The Journal of Transport History editorship) the papers according to their thematic relevance\, their originality and their scholarly rigor.\nAbstract deadline: 15 July 2025\nAbstract components: Your abstract should include the following elements:\n1. Name\, affiliation and e-mail address\n2. Short biography (150 words)\n3. Extended abstract of 1000 words including the title of the article\, a statement of the relevant topic/research questions/case studies/arguments.\nPlease send the above items in a single PDF document assembled to Nathalie Roseau (Nathalie.roseau@enpc.fr)\nThe authors of the selected papers will be notified approximately six weeks after the deadline. The deadline for submission of full articles will be 28 February 2026\nPapers will be subject to a double-anonymised review process. About JTH\, its indexing\, its indexing and submissions guidelines\, please refer to https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jth.\nQueries before the abstract submission date can be directed to the guest editor.\nReferences\nChristophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, The Shock of Anthropocene (London: Verso Books\, 2016)\nDipesh Chakrabarty\, The climate of history in a planetary age (Chicago\, The University of Chicago Press\, 2021)\nPaul Crutzen\, “Geology of Mankind: The Anthropocene”\, Nature\, 415 (2002)\, 23.\nLucien Febvre\, “Face au vent : manifeste des Annales nouvelles. À nos lecteurs\, à nos amis”. Annales. Économies\, Sociétés\, Civilisations\, 1:1 (1946)\, 1–8.\nInternational Union of Geological Sciences\, “The Anthropocene”\, 20 march 2024.\nhttps://www.iugs.org/_files/ugd/f1fc07_40d1a7ed58de458c9f8f24de5e739663.pdf?index=true.\nAnne Jarrigeon and Nathalie Roseau\, Condition mobile\, Ressorts de l’imaginaire (Gollion : Infolio\, 2024)\nNathalie Roseau “Mobile cultures and the Anthropocene”\, The Journal of Transport History\, Vol 43:3 (2022)\, 354-367\nWill Steffen\, Wendy Broadgate\, Lisa Deutsch\, Owen Gaffney and Cornelia Ludwig.\, « The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration »\, The Anthropocene Review\, Vol.2:1 (2015)\, 81-98.\nWill Steffen\, Jacques Grinevald\, Paul Crutzen and Jon McNeill.\, “The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives”\, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society A\, 1938 (2011)\, 842-867 URL:https://t2m.org/event/mobile-cultures-and-the-anthropocene-territories-societies-temporalities/ CATEGORIES:call for journal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250531T170000 DTSTAMP:20250403T103849Z CREATED:20250403T103849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T103849Z UID:10411-1743667200-1748710800@t2m.org SUMMARY:Imagining the future of ports in the long nineteenth century DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS\nSPECIAL ISSUE: “IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF PORTS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY”\nGuest editors: Giovanni Cristina (giovanni.cristina@uniroma3.it)\, University of Roma Tre\, and Giovanni Favero (gfavero@unive.it)\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\nAbstract deadline: 31 May 2025\nThe nineteenth century\, as stated by the volumes that have now become classics of historiography by Christopher A. Bayly (2003) and Jürgen Osterhammel (2009)\, coincides with a «transformation of the world» in a global sense and «the birth of the modern world». That century\, considered here in a long chronology reaching up to World War I\, represents in fact a discontinuity in which the new technologies of the first and second industrial revolutions changed maritime exchanges (from cabotage to steam navigation)\, whilst new infrastructures – artificial ports\, railways\, canals\, etc. – offered many port cities around the world new opportunities to revive their position in the globalised circuit of exchanges\, redefining urban hierarchies and functions at various levels. The transition from the «age of natural ports» to that of «artificial ports» (Brògueira Dias and Fernandes Alves\, 2010) affects\, with varying degrees of intensity\, many urban contexts globally: from the most famous cases of Chicago\, Boston\, New York\, Philadelphia\, San Francisco\, Shanghai\, London\, Liverpool\, Marseille\, Trieste\, Barcelona\, Genoa\, Yokohama\, Hamburg\, Rotterdam\, etc.\, to the “minor” ones of Rijeka\, Valencia\, Catania\, Izmir\, Thessaloniki\, Mersin\, Beirut and many others (Özveren et al.\, 2023; Miller\, 2012; Hein\, 2016). Obviously\, the chronology and the characteristics of these transformations can be variable\, depending on the peculiarities of the local contexts and their relationships with the global evolution of maritime transportation. Sometimes new technologies applied to means of transportation and global market dynamics select ports to be included or excluded in maritime traffic circuits. Sometimes\, it is instead new urban hierarchies and new port geographies that redefine trade networks and forms of mobility of people and goods. In\nthis perspective\, the “permanent adjustment process” that ports underwent during the 19th century has been classified into four possible categories: disruptive innovation\, spatial adaptation\, selective adaptation and one-way adaptation (Marnot\, 2024). What historians are still missing is an understanding of the -strategic or emerging- decision-making process that determined one choice or the other\, as connected with the future perspectives envisaged by the different actors and communities (Tinning\, 2024) involved in port-city projects and planning. How did they imagine the future of the port\, of its city and of the related hinterland? And how did their choices impact\, expectedly and unexpectedly\, on their actual evolution?\nThe present proposal aims to collect articles that analyse the perception and response to changes in maritime transport at the harbour level\, with respect to port cities considered both as individual cases and as groups of cities belonging to a regional geographic area or connected in a network\, and finally as case studies in a comparative perspective.\nIn particular\, contributions should address the following issues:\n– The gap between development expectations and actual reality in various harbour contexts. Indeed\, on the one hand\, there are the rhetorics (economic\, geopolitical\, scientific\, literary\, iconographic\, etc.) through which port communities think of themselves\, represent themselves\, and perceive themselves in relation to technological advances and the potential development opportunities they offer (e.g.\, entry into new circuits of global trade\, expansion of trade\, revolutionising urban hierarchies and the division between centres and peripheries\, etc.). On the other\, the reality that then actually occurs\, when the saving effects of a specific technology or infrastructure vanish for various reasons (failure to build\, persistence of backward factors\, etc.).\n– The relationships between decision-making centres (political\, economic) and individual port cities. In a century in which new nation-states arise (think Italy or Germany)\, multinational Empires change\, and new colonial Empires emerge\, what is the degree of autonomy of port cities with respect to the political entities to which they belong? What kind of dialectics are created between the infrastructure and port policies of individual states and the aspirations of cities? Do government choices on infrastructure investment and location create expectations and illusions?\n– Rivalries among ports competing in the logic of global trade. If in the first half of the century technological development was conceived as a factor of universal progress\, capable of bringing benefits to all humanity\, and commercial spaces as “reticular” systems among equals (as in Michel Chevalier’s Système de la Méditerranée\, 1832)\, with the second half of the 19th century feelings of aggressive competition increased\, which would later result in Imperialism and the «Scramble for Africa». How was this transition between the different meanings of development offered by the new technologies (from universal progress to the will to power) represented and perceived by cities and the communities inhabiting them?\n– Port cities and their hinterland. Harbours are gateways connecting a hinterland to the world. In the context of changing technological and logistic conditions for maritime transport\, reimagining the future of port cities implies the mobilisation and redefinition of the internal area using the port as a hub for shopping and mobility. Such a redefinition affected both the geographical extension of the hinterland and its economic\, cultural and political identity\, as shown for Chicago and the Great West (Cronon\, 1991). How were changes in the port functions connected to the imagined and realised reconfiguration of the economic and political geography of the mainland?\n– Ports and infrastructures as factors of mobility. The intensification of maritime connections on a global scale\, favoured by steam navigation\, generated new forms of mobility for goods (see Fumian\, 2024\, on wheat)\, and transcontinental migratory flows. In these processes\, the infrastructures themselves are both a factor in attracting migratory flows towards the most successful port cities (Lawton-Lee\, 2002)\, and the vector of forms of mobility that would otherwise be impossible. The case of the Suez Canal is particularly significant both as a generator of new urban-port centres\, such as Port Said (Carminati\, 2023)\, and as a means for new transcontinental mobility (Huber\, 2013). Shipping companies also play a similar role\, “selecting” their itineraries through negotiations with the local ruling authorities of the ports they call at. How is the intrinsic nature of infrastructures as “vectors of mobility” perceived by the individual and collective actors that promote the construction of ports\, railways and canals? How are these new and more intense forms of mobility linked to migration and to tourism managed by urban authorities?\nThe Special Issue will be guest edited by Giovanni Cristina (giovanni.cristina@uniroma3.it)\, University of Roma Tre\, and Giovanni Favero (gfavero@unive.it)\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, who will select (with JTH´s editorship) papers based on their thematic fit\, originality and scholarly rigor.\nAbstract deadline: 31 May 2025\nAbstract components: Your abstract should include the following items:\n1.\nName\, affiliation\, and email address\n2.\nShort biography (150 words)\n3.\nAbstract of 500 words including article title\, exposition of case study/research question/outline\, relevant theme addressed\, and article type\nPlease send the above components in ONE collated pdf document to Giovanni Cristina (giovanni.cristina@uniroma3.it)\, University of Roma Tre\, and Giovanni Favero (gfavero@unive.it)\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\nThe authors of selected papers will be notified approximately four weeks after the deadline. The deadline for the submission of full articles will be 31 October 2025.\nPapers will be subject to a double-anonymised review process. About JTH\, its indexing and metrics and submissions guideline refer to https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jth.\nQueries before the abstract submission date can be directed to guest editors.\nReferences:\n–\nChristopher A. Bayly\, The Birth of the Modern World\, 1780-1914 (Malden-Oxford-Carlton: Blackwell Publishing\, 2004).\n–\nEmílio Brògueira Dias and Jorge Fernandes Alves\, “Ports\, policies and interventions in ports in Portugal – 20th Century” Cahiers de la Méditerranée 80 (2010)\, 41-64.\n–\nLucia Carminati\, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said : Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal\, 1859–1906 (Oakland: University of California Press\, 2023).\n–\nMichel Chevalier\, Système de la Méditerranée (Paris : Fayard\, 2006) [Paris\, 1832].\n–\nWilliam Cronon\, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York-London: W.W. Norton & Co\, 1991).\n–\nCarlo Fumian\, Pane quotidiano. L’invisibile mercato mondiale del grano tra XIX e XX secolo (Rome: Donzelli\, 2024).\n–\nCarola Hein\, “Port Cities”\, in Peter Clark (ed.)\, The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, 809–827.\n–\nValeska Huber\, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond\, 1869–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2013).\n–\nRichard Lawton and Robert Lee (eds.)\, Population and Society in Western European Port-Cities\, c. 1650–1939 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press\, 2002).\n–\nBruno Marnot\, “The permanent adjustment process: A theoretical approach to structural change in commercial ports from the nineteenth century onwards” The Journal of Transport History\, https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266241295482\n–\nMichael B. Miller\, Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History (New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2012).\n–\nJürgen Osterhammel\, The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century (Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press\, 2014) [München: Beck\, 2009].\n–\nEyüp Özveren\, Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Tülin Selvi Ünlü (eds.)\, Mediterranean Port Cities: Connectivity in Modern Times (Cham: Springer\, 2023).\n–\nMorten Tinning\, “Imagined futures of sail and stea: The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures” Business History 66.2 (2024)\, 386-406. URL:https://t2m.org/event/imagining-the-future-of-ports-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/ CATEGORIES:call for journal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250316T170000 DTSTAMP:20250309T084213Z CREATED:20250309T084213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250309T084213Z UID:10385-1742025600-1742144400@t2m.org SUMMARY:Numéro thématique de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française DESCRIPTION:Appel de textes\nPour une juste place de l’histoire des transports et des mobilités en Amérique\nNuméro thématique de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française\nfrançaise \n Depuis leur arrivée dès le 16e siècle\, les Européens ont bougé sur le continent américain – et les Autochtones\, présents antérieurement\, et coprésents ensuite\, ont tout autant été mobiles. Ce faisant\, tous et toutes en Amérique Française\, au fil du temps\, se sont appropriés divers moyens de transport\, depuis les canots d’écorce jusqu’à l’avion et la voiture électrique en passant par le paquebot\, le train et le vélo\, notamment. \n Ce numéro thématique entend rassembler des analyses explicitant dans quelle mesure les modes de transport se sont déployés et/ou étudiant leurs multiples impacts sur les sociétés et les territoires de l’Amérique française. Il s’agit d’un champ historiographique peu exploré par les historiens de l’Amérique française\, pour lequel\, il nous semble légitime de faire une juste place vu les enjeux contemporains et futurs des mobilités américaines. L’approche peut être modale : étudier un mode de transport\, son évolution et quelques-uns de ses impacts. Ou encore multimodale – soit une approche par l’histoire des mobilités –\, en s’intéressant aux croisements de deux ou plusieurs modes de transport et les mutations qu’ils entraînent. Les propositions peuvent porter sur le transport des marchandises comme sur celui des individus (les télécommunications ne font pas l’objet de ce dossier). L’attention n’est pas nécessairement focalisée sur le mobile – le(s) mode(s) de transport –\, elle peut être aussi l’être sur l’immobile\, soit l’infrastructure (aéroports\, stations d’essence\, port\, arrêts de bus\, pistes cyclables…). Les transformations engendrées par l’essor des transports sont trop nombreuses et diverses pour être toutes citées ici\, mais elles touchent particulièrement au politique (législation\, enjeux d’élection\, déplacement des politiciennes et des politiciens en régions plus éloignées\, inauguration d’infrastructure\, rôle des groupes de pression)\, au social (rapport aux femmes\, aux Autochtones\, aux associations\, aux personnes à mobilité réduite)\, au culturel (imaginaires dans divers médias\, publicités\, représentations véhiculées par les industriels)\, à l’économie (tourisme\, sport\, urbanisme\, entreprenariat dans les transports). Il peut s’agir de faire l’histoire de la patrimonialisation de l’écosystème du transport (musées\, signalisation patrimoniale\, architecture remarquable)\, de s’attacher à l’évolution des pollutions (sonores\, olfactives\, visuelles) et des accidents (mortels ou non\, [in]sécurité)\, d’expliquer l’échec de certains modes de transport ou encore d’éclairer des modes de transport plus invisibilisés : le tracteur\, l’autobus\, l’autocar scolaire\, la motocyclette\, la marche à pied. Enfin\, les saisons en Amérique française jouant un rôle important dans la variation de l’usage et du développement des modes de transport\, il serait intéressant d’analyser le rôle de l’hiver sur les transports avec\, par exemple\, les ponts de glace\, les traversiers\, la motoneige. \n Si le terrain d’enquête privilégié est l’Amérique française\, on ne devrait pas s’empêcher d’aborder l’aspect international ou de croiser l’Amérique française avec d’autres territoires puisque les transports dépassent parfois les frontières\, comme c’est le cas de la route transcanadienne et des liaisons aériennes\, maritimes et ferroviaires. \nLes chercheuses et chercheurs qui désirent contribuer à ce numéro doivent faire parvenir leur proposition d’article de 500 à 1 000 mots au plus tard le 15 mars 2025 à l’adresse suivante : etienne.faugier@univ-lyon2.fr. \nSi votre proposition est retenue\, vous aurez jusqu’au 15 novembre 2025 pour soumettre votre article (maximum 9 000 mots\, incluant les notes). Les consignes pour la rédaction des textes sont disponibles sur le site web de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française. Les articles acceptés seront publiés dans un numéro thématique de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française à l’hiver 2027. \nEtienne Faugier\nDépartement de tourisme\, Université Lumière Lyon 2 URL:https://t2m.org/event/numero-thematique-de-la-revue-dhistoire-de-lamerique-francaise/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250303T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250303T180000 DTSTAMP:20250222T065319Z 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=America/Halifax:20250212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251001T170000 DTSTAMP:20250212T131827Z CREATED:20250212T131230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T131827Z UID:10272-1739347200-1759338000@t2m.org SUMMARY:John Scholes Transport History Research Essay Competition\, 2025 DESCRIPTION: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 more entrants. Typically\, the prize is awarded for research completed as part of a PhD. \nThis year we’re delighted to announce that the prize will consist of: \n* vouchers up to the value of £150 to be spent on SAGE publications \n* a year’s membership of T2M – International Association for the History of Transport\, Traffic & Mobility (90€ worth) \n* €250 in cash. \nPublication in the Journal of Transport History will be at the discretion of the Editor and subject to the normal refereeing process. \nThe prize is named in memory of John Scholes\, the first Curator of Historical Relics at the British Transport Commission. It is funded by SAGE (publishers of the Journal of Transport History)\, and T2M – www.t2m.org. \nEligibility \nEntry is limited to researchers who\, at the time of submission\, are not yet in or have just commenced a permanent / tenured academic (or equivalent) position\, and who are just starting to publish research. \nEntries \nEssays (in English\, double-spaced) should not exceed 8\,000 words (including footnotes). Sources must be documented fully. Entries must be submitted electronically\, to arrive no later than 30 September 2025. \nThey must not bear any reference to the author or institutional affiliation. Senior scholars will judge entries against criteria of originality\, thoroughness and excellence \nof argument\, source use\, composition and illustration. The process is ‘double-anonymised’. The judges will not enter into correspondence. \nA cover letter and a one-page CV must demonstrate eligibility for the prize. \nEntries for the prize should be sent to the JTH Editor at editor.jth@gmail.com. The subject line of the message must read ‘John Scholes Prize entry 2025’. In the body of the message please indicate how you found out about the Prize. \nPrint the call: PDF 2025 John Scholes Prize call for nominations URL:https://t2m.org/event/john-scholes-transport-history-research-essay-competition-2025/ CATEGORIES:call for price ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Transport-History-logo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20241121T173000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20241122T190000 DTSTAMP:20250203T070354Z 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:20241029T081602Z 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=America/Halifax:20241024T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241026T170000 DTSTAMP:20240913T123248Z CREATED:20240607T053121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T123248Z UID:10156-1729756800-1729962000@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-GMHC포스터-.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240822 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240824 DTSTAMP:20240917T094114Z CREATED:20240202T093643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T094114Z UID:10087-1724284800-1724457599@t2m.org 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/ CATEGORIES:call for conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://t2m.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/konference.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231025T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231028T170000 DTSTAMP:20240611T144454Z CREATED:20230102T080638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T144454Z UID:9996-1698220800-1698512400@t2m.org SUMMARY:21st Annual T²M Conference DESCRIPTION:The picture as a poster (high resolution 500 KB) download poster \nThe 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport\, Traffic and Mobility (T²M) \n\nOrganised by T2M and the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University)\nhttps://www.mobilityhumanities.net/ \n\n“Mobilities\, Aesthetics and Ethics”\n25 ~ 28 October 2023 (hybrid)\nKonkuk University\, Seoul \nThe CfP for 2023 GMHC and T2M Conference (Seoul) pdf \nCall for Participation\nAesthetics (aesthesis) is increasingly being paid attention to by mobilities scholars studying not only artistic but also everyday practices. It is also being considered by those interested in mobility histories\, technologies\, infrastructures\, and (urban) designs\, who explore senses\, emotions\, and affects emerging\, circulating\, and dispersing between\, among\, and throughout bodies and others. Taking note of “movement enacted\, felt\, perceived\, expressed\, metered\, choreographed\, appreciated and desired” (Pearce and Merriman 2017\, 498)\, for example\, aesthetics means grappling with “queries concerning worldly encounters with site\, the body and the senses\, and around materiality and practices” (Hawkins and Straughan 2015\, 2). Aesthetics may mean (an)aesthetics too (Bissell 2022; Sieverts 2007): to consider in what ways our capacities to feel and sense may be not only enlivened but lessened or deadened—desensitised—when on the move\, both presently and in history. \nAs “movement is made of time and space\,” so are “moving people and objects […] agents in the production of time and space\,” that practise\, experience\, and embody mobility (Cresswell 2006\, 3-4). Mobilities can configure a time and space of gathering and/or scattering\, communing (Nikolaeva et al.\, 2019) and/or monopolising\, or in abundance and/or extinction from local to planetary. As both formative and (kin)aesthetical\, they encourage us to ponder\, judge\, and perform what is good\, valuable\, and acceptable\, calling attention to our responsibilities for others\, the environment\, and the globe. Which quality of time and space do we\, with objects\, commit to\, are we producing\, and should we be part of\, via mobilities? \nMobilities are both aesthetic and coloured with ethical values. Many mobilities researchers have taken mainly sustainability and/or climate change as their starting point to address and accept the ethics of mobilities (Freudendal-Pedersen 2014\, 143)\, while recognising how aesthetic is a crucial element of transport imaginaries (and marketing). We\, in addition\, can explore ethics in everyday mobilities\, as well as mobility histories\, infrastructures\, technologies\, and policies\, recognising bodily mobilities\, e.g.\, such as dancing\, bicycling\, migrating\, and touring\, as both aesthetic and ethical. The conference seeks to enquire into the aesthetics and ethics of mobilities not (only) separately but (also) connected. \nThis conference invites proposals from different disciplines within mobility studies\, including\, but not limited to: literary\, cultural\, art and design studies\, philosophy\, history\, 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. We accept proposals for papers and sessions on one or more of the following topics/areas: \n\nAesthetics and/or ethics of mobilities in literary\, cultural\, and artistic narratives\nPhilosophical investigation on aesthetics and/or ethics of mobilities\nAesthetics and/or ethics of mobilities from antiquity to future\nGeographies of aesthetics and/or ethics of mobilities\nAesthetics and/or ethics of mobilities in new media technologies\nArchitecture and its aesthetics and/or ethics in the Anthropocene\nAesthetics and/or ethics in urban design\, mapping\, and planning of mobility\nEvolution of mobility technologies and their aftermaths on aesthetics and/or ethics\nTourism and touristic aesthetics and/or ethics in the post-pandemic era\nMoving people and objects in transportation\, logistics\, and circulation\nAesthetics and/or ethics in global educational mobilities\nKinaesthetic dimensions and choreographies of diverse mobilities\nEnvironmental humanities and the aesthetics of more-than-human mobilities\nColoniality and critical Black and Indigenous aesthetics and/or ethics of mobility\nOther related issues\n\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\, from 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 \n(updated on 10.06) \n7 April – Deadline for the submission of abstracts and full\, pre-organised Special sessions \n22 April – Notification of acceptance for abstracts and sessions \n5 June – Early Bird registration opens \n20 June – Submission for travel grant closes \n5 July – Notification of acceptance for travel grant \n15 July – Early Bird registration closes \n1 August – Submission of full papers and posters \n23–25 September – Conference \n26 September – Thematic excursions \nSubmission 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 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\n7/7 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.\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.\n\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. The full poster is due by 25 September 2023. \nAfter Acceptance\, all abstracts will be published on the conference website. You 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. Authors whose contributions are accepted will have until 25 September 2023 to submit their full paper. Papers may be published in a restricted area for conference participants on the conference website and/or as part of the T2M archive. Consent from authors will be sought in all cases. \nSubmit your paper\, session proposals\, and /or poster to: 2023gmhc.t2m@gmail.com \nFor any questions\, send an email to: 2023gmhc.t2m@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 10 July 2023\nIndividual fee: 260 Euros (for T2M member: 200 Euros)\nReduced fee:  230 Euros (for T2M member: 170 Euros)\nOnline participation: 80 Euros (for T2M member: 50 Euros) \nRegistration after 10 July to 3 October 2023\nIndividual fee: 360 Euros (for T2M member: 270 Euros)\nReduced fee: 310 Euros (for T2M member: 220 Euros)\nOnline participation: 120 Euros (for T2M member: 80 Euros) \nThe registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials\, coffee/tea breaks\, two lunches (Thursday and Friday)\, a welcome aperitive (Wednesday evening)\, two dinners (Thursday and Friday)\, and social events. \nPlease email the Organising Committee (2023gmhc.t2m@gmail.com) with the subject heading “2023 GMHC Inquiry” if you have any questions or concerns. \nTravel Grants\nGraduates and doctoral students and participants from developing countries whose submissions have been accepted may apply for travel grants of up to € 250 (in the form of reimbursement). A limited number of grants are available. Applications should detail the cost of travel and the amount applied for in an email to (2023gmhc.t2m@gmail.com). Applications must be received by 12 June 2023; decisions will be made by 3 July 2023. The Committee will consider contribution for a reduced fee in case of online participation. \nConference Committee \nConference Committee Chairs\nInseop Shin (Konkuk University)\, Carlos López Galviz (Lancaster University) \nProgramme Committee\nPeter Adey (Royal Holloway University of London)\, Jooyoung Kim (Konkuk University)\, Taehee Kim (Konkuk University)\, Jinhyoung Lee (Konkuk University)\, Tiina Männistö-Funk (University of Turku)\, Victor Marquez (Mexico)\, Bradley Rink (University of the Western Cape)\, Mimi Sheller (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) \nOrganising Committee\nJin Suk Bae (Konkuk University)\, Bomi Im (Konkuk University)\, Jooyoung Kim (Konkuk University)\, Jurak Kim (Konkuk University)\, Taehee Kim (Konkuk University)\, Jaeeun Lee (Konkuk University)\, Jinhyoung Lee (Konkuk University)\, Yeonhee Woo (Konkuk University)\, Myungsim Yang (Konkuk University) URL:https://t2m.org/event/21st-annual-t%c2%b2m-conference-call-for-papers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTSTAMP:20221029T095858Z CREATED:20221029T095858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221029T095858Z UID:9926-1690761600-1690847999@t2m.org SUMMARY:John Scholes Transport History Research Essay Competition DESCRIPTION: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 in cash and a year’s membership of the International Association for the History of Transport\, Traffic & Mobility (T2M). \nThe prize is intended to recognise budding transport historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article\, or be divided between two or more entrants. Typically\, the prize is awarded for research completed as part of a PhD. \nThe deadline for the 2023 competition is 31 July 2023. URL:https://t2m.org/event/john-scholes-transport-history-research-essay-competition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20230427T173000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20230427T183000 DTSTAMP:20230410T062620Z 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:20230302T064841Z 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:20230302T080743Z 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 END:VCALENDAR