The Society of Automotive Historians will conduct its Eleventh Biennial Automotive History Conference where researchers and academic professionals present their recent work on the history of the motor industry, its products and their impact on economic and social development. The conference will be held at the Cleveland Airport Marriott Hotel for two days focusing on the theme: ‘Automotive History: Beginnings and New Beginnings’ and will cover the first steps of the nascent industry, its early consolidation into a small number…

Call for papers for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board and/or publication in the journal Transportation Research Record Consider submitting your research papers for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (January 2017) and/or publication in the peer-reviewed journal Transportation Research Record (TRR). There is a single process for submitting a paper for consideration for one or both opportunities. More details about the submission process will be released in a month or two, but key factors to…

Sharing Mobilities – New Perspectives for Societies on the Move? The 12th Cosmobilities Network Conference 30 November – 2 December 2016, Stuttgart/Bad Boll Keynotes: Bridgette Wessels (University of Sheffield), Tim Cresswell (Northeastern University, Boston), Philipp Rode (London School of Economics) The 12th Cosmobilities Network conference invites contributions looking at the social, cultural, spatial, ecological and socio-economic consequences of new sharing concepts. Papers and contributions elaborating aspects of related risks, chances, utopias and dystopias are welcomed in particular. Cosmobilities encourages scholars and…

Paper session at Nordic Geographers Meeting 18–21 June 2017, Stockholm, Sweden   Conveners: Tauri Tuvikene (Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University) Sam Merrill (Department of Sociology, Umeå University) Discussant: Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University) This session explores the ways in which the act of walking in cities can provide avenues for studying different geographical topics: from memory and identity construction, to neighbourhood transformation, urban legal governance and inequalities in mobilities and beyond. It will build on the large number…

LOVA International Conference 2017 "Ethnographies of Gender and Mobility" 5-7 July 2017, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Mobility has become one of the most important concepts in contemporary social sciences, capturing the idea that life is in flux. Not only is an increasing number of people moving across the world, also ideas, images, information, objects, cultures and many other things are circulating  rapidly, affecting people’s lives in many different ways. Yet, mobility is not equally accessible for everyone, and being mobile is not automatically…

RAILWAYS IN FIRST WORLD WAR: 8th International Conference on Railway-history organized by the International Railway History Association / Association Internationale d'Histoire des Chemins de Fer / Asociación Internacional de Historia Ferroviaria and supported by ·     UIC / International Union of Railways ·     Service historique de la Défense (France) ·     SNCF / French National Railways (France) The Confefence will be held at the National University of Public Service in Budapest from November 28th-December 1st, 2018. We contend that the…