12th Intl Conf on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (September 2014, Philadelphia USA)

Dates: 18-21 September 2014
Location: Drexel University, Philadelphia USA
Website: http://www.drexel.edu/mobilities/news/archive/spinoffs-of-mobility-call-for-papers/
Deadline for abstracts & CV: 31 March 2014

Send CV and Abstract, max. 1 page each, to submissions@t2m.org

The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (TM) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, to be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia on 18-21 September, 2014, co-sponsored in association with Drexel’s Centers for Mobilities Research and Policy and Science, Technology and Society, and the Pan-American Mobilities Network.

Papers may address any social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political perspectives on the history, present, and future of transport, traffic and mobility. However, preference will be given to our conference theme: Spinoffs of Mobility: Technology, Risk & Innovation. The conference theme addresses intended and unintended positive, negative, surprising and alarming side effects and collateral damages of mobility in relation to the fields of technology, innovation and risk – especially in situations of war, disaster, terrorism and new modes of securitization which unsettle existing law around human rights, civil rights, political rights, and mobility rights.

Global Conference On Mobility Futures (Sep 2013, Lancaster UK)

Dates: 4-6 September 2013
Location: Lancaster University, UK
Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/mobility-futures/
Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2013

To ethnographers and designers

As part of celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University, we are pleased to announce the Global Conference on Mobility Futures, September 4-6th, 2013, at Lancaster University, UK and invite contributions.

Over the past ten years the work of CeMoRe and others have helped to ‘mobilise’ the social and human sciences and developed innovative analyses of economic, social, technological, political, policy and design transformations.

The ‘Global Conference on Mobility Futures’ will reflect this work and provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research from across the social sciences that reflects back on, explores the present and looks towards future mobilities.

Special Issue of Transfers, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (July, 2011)

Special Issue on Media and Mobility
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2011

We invite proposals for an upcoming special issue on “Mobility and Media”. This special issue of Transfers, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, aims to provide a forum of discussion with regard to current approaches and perspectives on the history of mobility, focusing on the interaction between transportation and media, technologies and techniques. Thus, it can be seen as a compromise between two aspects: on the one hand “mobilization”, i.e., the process of mobilizing communication and media technologies (such as the emergence of portable media), and, on the other hand, the “mediatization” of transport technologies.