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Monday / September 14, 2015

The Future of Mobilities: Flows, Transport and Communication

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Thursday / April 14, 2016

Automotive History Conference

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…

Thursday / June 02, 2016

The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed

Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham (UK) Keynote Speaker: Nile Green (UCLA) Over the past century, motorised vehicles and the new kinds of mobility they enabled gave birth to a radically new social, cultural and political experience. They worked to refashion built environments through urban planning and landscapes through infrastructure programmes, and they altered conceptions of time and the production and experience of space. Whether people took the wheel, loitered at the curb, hitched a lift or crossed the…

Monday / August 01, 2016

2017 TRB Annual Meeting: Papers Due August 1, 2016

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…

Call for Papers: East-West Cooperation in the Automotive Industry: Mobility, Production and Flows

East-West Cooperation in the Automotive Industry: Mobility, Production and FlowsJournal of Transport History, Special Issue Socialist countries relied heavily on foreign knowledge and technology to build up their automotive industry and to re-design mobility in and among socialist states. The construction of the automobile industry and mass motorization in the European Eastern Bloc and socialist Yugoslavia led to the mobilization of an enormous amount of physical and knowledge assets. Western European businesses were prominent in this process.Recent literature has focused…

Wednesday / November 30, 2016

Cosmobilities Network Conference

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…

Thursday / December 15, 2016

Call for papers: Walking Through Urban Geographies

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…

Friday / February 03, 2017

CFP – Teaching mobilities: practice, pedagogies, power. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

CFP - Teaching mobilities: practice, pedagogies, power. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017: London, 29th August - 1st September 2017 Convenors: Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London), Justin Spinney (Cardiff University), and Simon Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London). Geographers are well attuned to mobilities – everyday mobilities that constitute our social lives, permitting social reproduction and subverting rules and restrictions to reassert people’s rights to public space; international mobilities that speak to the precarity of our current times, from…

Call for Applications: Tensions of Europe Summer school

Tensions of Europe Summer school “Borders and Crises in European Past and Present – angles from the history of technology” Greece (Athens and Delphi), 5-7 September 2017 The Tensions of Europe Early Career Scholars’ Group (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/) organises the summer school “Borders and Crises in European Past and Present – angles from the history of technology” in connection to the 8th Tensions of Europe Conference (Athens, 7-10 September 2017; see http://8toe2017.phs.uoa.gr/). The summer school aims at introducing PhD’s and early career scholars…

Sunday / March 05, 2017

Call for Participation: Joint Cemore | T2M | Cosmobilities conference ‘Mobile Utopia’

- The joint Cemore | T2M | Cosmobilities conference 'Mobile Utopia' invites submission of individual papers, panels, artworks, posters, and other creative formats. The conference will be held on 2-5 November 2017 at Lancaster University. The deadline for the submission of abstracts and sessions is 31 March 2017. For conference details, see the conference announcement and the conference website.

4th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

The 4th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans will be held on 29-30 March 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The theme for the conference is Intelligent Planning for Sustainable Mobility and participation is free of charge. Four years after the publication of the European Commission’s Urban Mobility Package (2013) and related SUMP Guidelines (2014), there is now a large and expanding network of cities committed to preparing and implementing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. This includes cities and institutions involved in various EU projects and initiatives, designed…

Wednesday / July 05, 2017

LOVA International Conference 2017: “Ethnographies of Gender and Mobility”

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…

Tuesday / August 15, 2017

Call For Papers: HISTORY/THEORY OF HIGH SPEED RAIL TECHNOLOGY

The existing historiography of U.S. passenger railways, post World War 2, pays insufficient attention to important aspects, such as (among others): (1). how transnational relationships affected the development of high speed technology; (2). the decline of railcar/propulsion manufacturing. Also this historiography rarely includes theoretical explanations of why a new technology—e.g., magnetically levitated transport (Maglev), or the Aerotrain—failed to achieve commercial implementation; or why one particular technology, as opposed to another, was adopted. Therefore, I invite colleagues to join me in…

Sunday / December 31, 2017

CFP: RAILWAYS IN FIRST WORLD WAR

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…

Wednesday / May 02, 2018

Call for thematic issue (2020) HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology

HoST- Journal of History of Science and Technology is an open access, on-line peer-reviewed international journal devoted to the History of Science and Technology, published in English by a group of Portuguese research institutions and De Gruyter (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/host). HoST encourages submissions of original historical research exploring the cultural, social and political dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM), both from a local and a global perspective. Past thematic issues have dealt with topics as diverse as circulation, communication of science…

John Scholes Prize Competition 2018

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 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. This year we’re delighted to announce that the prize will consist…

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