Sunday / August 02, 2020

Call: John Scholes Transport History Prize 2020

We are very pleased to let you know that the John Scholes Transport History Prize competition for 2020 is open, with a deadline for submissions of 3 August 2020. The prize, which carries a cash recognition (200 Euros) & £150 of vouchers to spend with SAGE, 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…

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Call for articles: Building Transport History Ontologies

The Journal of Transport History is launching this Call for Papers devoted to further developing the ontology of Transport History. The papers can have any format or length (between 2 and 8 thousand words) and take on innovative analytical approaches. The papers collected for this CfP, which will be published in the JTH, will eventually – with the authors’ agreement – be used as the foundation for a future Handbook of Transport History, which may take the form of a…

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Sunday / November 22, 2020

Call: Retailing and Distribution History

CHORD invites submissions for its 2021 on-line seminars on 'Retailing and Distribution History': papers focusing on any aspect of retailing and / or distribution history and on any geographical area or period are welcome. We invite both experienced and new speakers, including speakers without an institutional affiliation. Potential speakers are very welcome to discuss their ideas with the organiser before submission (please see details below). We invite both 20-minute papers and shorter, 10-minute ‘work in progress’ presentations. All papers will…

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Thursday / February 11, 2021

‘From this new culture of the air we finally see’

Luke Seaber (UCL) (5:30pm UK time) 'From this new culture of the air we finally see': 'Groundmindedness' in the 1930s The (stereo)typical view of 1930s ‘airmindedness’ is that it is a manifestation of the zeitgeist where we have an interest in, or even obsession with, flying and airmen – Rex Warner’s The Aerodrome, Day Lewis’s apostrophizing Auden as ‘lone flyer, birdman’; the (classic) examples are legion, and may be found in Valentine Cunningham’s great sounding of ’30s culture, British Writers…

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Friday / March 26, 2021

Online lecture: Public Transport and Transatlantic Scientific Echanges

Public Transport in the Americas: Mobility and Transatlantic Scientific Exchanges Friday, 26. March 2021 Lecture (virtual) | 12pm ET | Speakers: Andra B. Chastain (Washington State University Vancouver); Dhan Zunino Singh (National University of Quilmes) The German Historical Institute is pleased to announce the next session of the new virtual lecture series “Mobilities and Migration across the Americas.” The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies; Global, International & Area Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies (all at UC…

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