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SUMMARY:Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places\, People\, Infrastructures\, Texts - call for papers
DESCRIPTION:The Call for Papers can be downloaded here. \nThe project ‘Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities’ (RAILIMAGE) invites scholars from all backgrounds to submit paper proposals for its 2027 conference. We also warmly encourage early-career researchers to apply. \nThe conference takes a diachronic view of railways focused on how people have experienced and imagined them\, their spaces\, and the experiences that railways generated in almost every global region during the long twentieth century. We welcome submissions from researchers in a multiplicity of disciplines\, including literary and cultural studies\, critical realist studies\, human geography\, political science\, visual studies\, mobility humanities\, transport history\, cultural history and more. A core contribution made by the project consists in recentring the long twentieth century in humanistic railway studies. This was an era when railways were the primary instrument of social change brought about by mobility. However\, its transformative importance has often been overlooked in railway studies focused on the novelty of the mode in the nineteenth century and its potential to deliver sustainable long-distance transport in the twenty-first century. \nThemes to be explored include\, but are not limited to\, the following: \n\nthe railway and (literary and/or artistic) form\nthe railway as infrastructure\ngender and sexual identity\n (post)colonial perspectives\nrailway and war\nexperiences of long-distance travel\nexperiences of commuting\n the experience of railway work (labour\, bureaucracy)\nspaces of the railway\nrailway people\nrailway heritage and memory politics\nrailway and care\nrailway future\nrailways\, landscape and the environment\ncomparisons between literary and visual depictions of the railway\n\nIf you are interested\, please send a proposal of max. 500 words to the organizers (railimage.abo@gmail.com) no later than 30 September 2026. 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\n30 September 2026: Deadline for submission of paper proposal\n30 November 2026: Notification of paper acceptance\n15 December 2026: Deadline for bursary application\n31 December 2026: Bursary recipients notified\n28 February 2027: Registration closes\n1–3 April 2027: Conference\n\nKeynotes\n\nNicola Kirkby\, City St George’s\, University of London\nYonca Erkan\, University of Antwerp\nKayle R. Avery\, University of Delaware\nMikko Manka\, Tampere University\n\nBursaries\nThe conference has a limited number of travel bursaries on offer to help scholars attend the conference. For more information\, see the conference website: blogs2.abo.fi/railimage \nPractical Information\n\nThe conference is an in-person event only.\n The conference language is English.\nArtists requiring specific infrastructure or equipment are encouraged to get in touch with us regarding their needs before submitting an application.\nMore information is available on the conference website: blogs2.abo.fi/railimage\n\nContact Details\nPlease submit your paper proposal to railimage.abo@gmail.com \nIf you have any questions about the conference\, please do not hesitate to get in touch. \n\n Jason Finch\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland (jason.finch@abo.fi)\n Adam Borch\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland\nZeynep Correia\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland\nNiral Joshi\, Åbo Akademi University\, Finland\n\nAbout RAILIMAGE\nThe project “Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities” (RAILIMAGE) develops an urgently needed humanization of transport studies. It is active from August 2024 until July 2027. RAILIMAGE is writing the global qualitative and imaginative history of the long-distance railway journey and its spaces in the twentieth century\, thus reaffirming the role of the railway in twenty-first-century imaginations of more sustainable mobility. The project advances an interdisciplinary approach to mobility and infrastructures\, combining techniques and insights from the humanities\, especially spatial literary studies\, with critical realist philosophy\, human geography and regional studies. The project team are working on case studies which illuminate regions such as the countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire\, colonial and postcolonial India\, the UK\, the USA and Scandinavia\, as well as considering the experiences of long- distance train travellers originating in these regions. \n  \nRAILIMAGE is headed by Professor Jason Finch and based in the department of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University\, Finland. The project is funded by the H. W. Donner Foundation (administered by the Åbo Akademi University Foundation).
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