• Bicycle aesthetics, mobilities of care and equipment trajectories: An international comparison of gender construction processes around cycling equipment

    Research Seminar with Dr Claire Pelgrims (Brussels) 3 March 2025, 16:30-18:00 GMT Room A05, LICA Building, Lancaster Univesrity Teams 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 Bicycle aesthetics, mobilities of care and equipment trajectories: An international comparison of gender construction processes around cycling equipment Since the 1990s, European cities have been developing policies to promote cycling. However, in traditionally car-centric […]

  • Numéro thématique de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

    Appel de textes Pour une juste place de l’histoire des transports et des mobilités en Amérique Numéro thématique de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française française 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. […]

  • Imagining the future of ports in the long nineteenth century

    CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: “IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF PORTS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY” Guest editors: Giovanni Cristina (giovanni.cristina@uniroma3.it), University of Roma Tre, and Giovanni Favero (gfavero@unive.it), Ca' Foscari University of Venice Abstract deadline: 31 May 2025 The nineteenth century, as stated by the volumes that have now become classics of historiography by Christopher […]

  • Mobile cultures and the anthropocene: Territories, societies, temporalities

    1 CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: “MOBILE CULTURES AND THE ANTHROPOCENE: TERRITORIES, SOCIETIES, TEMPORALITIES” Guest editors: Dr Nathalie Roseau (nathalie.roseau@enpc.fr), École nationale des ponts et chaussées Abstract deadline: 15 July 2025 Research on mobility has shown considerable interest in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to history in order to renew knowledge of transport. Among the issues […]

  • Tourism Costs: Where are we now?

    You are warmly invited to attend the following free on-line seminar organised by the LJMU Tourism, Travel, Culture and Heritage Research Group Tourism Costs: Where are we now? 29th April 13.30 – 15.00 (UK time) Online Please register via the Eventbrite page by Thursday 24th April to receive the Teams link : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1300795818309?aff=oddtdtcreator If you […]

  • Call for papers on cycling in post-socialist cities

    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 […]

  • Cemore Summer Symposium: Making Connections

    Lancaster University, Friday 20th June, 1-4pm, in person presentations, with hybrid attendance. You 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. We look forward to welcoming guest […]

  • Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire

    Event, 10.00-16.00 on 15th July 2025 Location for this event: Council Room, Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD ‘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 […]

  • Imagining the Railway, 1900 to the Present

    Mobility Humanities Special Issue (for publication January 2028) CALL FOR PAPERS “Imagining the Railway, 1900 to the Present” Guest Editors: Adam Borch, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Frederik Van Dam, Radboud University, Netherlands We invite scholars to submit article proposals for a special issue in the open-access journal Mobility Humanities […]

  • Workshop “Things in motion. More-than-human mobilities” (In Spanish)

    Dear All, For those who understand Spanish, we'd like to invite you to follow our second workshop on the mobility of things. It will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/@CHIHistoriaIntelectual October 3, 2pm (Arg) These workshops aim to discuss the mobility of organic and inorganic things, proposing a dialogue between mobilities studies and the material turn, […]

  • Mobility Alternatives – Alternative Mobilities – T2M conference November 2025

    T2M Conference 4-7 November 2025 Eindhoven, NL Conference page The call in PDF T2M 2025 seeks to spark debate that moves beyond mono-modal approaches through the broad lens of Mobility Alternatives – Alternative Mobilities. The term Mobility Alternatives refers to transport modes positioned as alternatives to dominant forms of mobilities—largely automobilities—such as walking, cycling, micromobilities […]

  • Call for Applications: Travellers of the Sea – Conference on Maritime History, Marine Archaeology and Ethnology

    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 […]

  • Call for Applications: 24th European Transport Congress

    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! On 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 […]

  • 2025 Global Mobility Humanities Conference: entr’acte (2025 GMHC: entr’acte)

    Organised by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University) “Mobility Infrastructures of Humans, Non-humans, and More-than-humans” 5 ~ 6 December 2025 Konkuk University, Seoul Call for Participation Innovations 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 […]

  • Call for Special Issue: “Infrastructuring Mobilities: Backbones and Entanglements of Leisure, Tourism and Migration”

    Mobility Humanities Special Issue (for publication July 2027) CALL FOR PAPERS “INFRASTRUCTURING MOBILITIES: BACKBONES AND ENTANGLEMENTS OF LEISURE, TOURISM AND MIGRATION” Guest Editors: Thiago Allis, University of São Paulo, Brazil Franz Buhr, University of Lisbon, Portugal Jessica Frazão, University of São Paulo, Brazil In the broad context of contemporary mobilities, recent developments in mobility infrastructures […]

  • CfP Special Issue Transfers Journal (CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS

    CALL FOR PAPERS For a SPECIAL ISSUE to be published in Transfers Journal – Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (CONTESTED) MOTORWAYS Motorways 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 […]

  • Travellers of the Sea – Conference on Maritime History, Marine Archaeology and Ethnology

    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 […]

  • Call: 2026 Global Mobility Humanities Conference

    “Climate, Mobility and Infrastructure” 29 ~ 31 October 2026 Konkuk University, Seoul Call for Participation Mobilities 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 […]

  • Transport, mobility, tourism: degrowth, demobility, sustainable development? Call

    International Colloquium in Université Lumière Lyon 2, 24-27 November 2026 Supported by T2M  15ème édition du Colloque International pluridisciplinaire AsTRES Résumé : En 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 […]