Registration to attend the conference is open until 20 September!
Everyone interested in the topics of the conference is welcome to register here (attending only, registration for presenting closed on 7 September).
For more information, send an email to t2m@leibniz-ifl.de.
The 2024 annual conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), will focus on transitions and transformations of mobilities and infrastructures.
Venue: Leipzig, Germany
Dates: 23 – 26.09.2024
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KEY DATES (updated on 13 September)
- 7 April – Deadline for the submission of abstracts and full, pre-organised Special sessions
- 22 April – Notification of acceptance for abstracts and sessions
- 5 June – Early Bird registration opens
- 20 June – Submission for travel grant closes
- 5 July – Notification of acceptance for travel grant
- 15 July – Early Bird registration closes
- 31 August – Submission of full papers and posters
- 7 September – Registration for presenting closes
- 20 September – Registration for attending closes
- 23–25 September – Conference
- 26 September – Thematic excursions
Modern societies are experiencing striking technological, ecological, socio-economic and cultural as well as political challenges – with mobility questions at the forefront of these contentions. Actors and institutions across the globe increasingly recognize the need for systemic changes in the ways goods, people, ideas, policies and capital are set in motion – usually framed in the terms of “mobility transitions”. Green deal policies are drafted and “just transition” funds are set up, acknowledging that transition to carbon-free futures will require substantial resources to succeed, but also to avoid uneven and unfair socio-spatial effects on nations, regions, cities, and rural places. Existing research has already criticized mobility transition policies for their narrow normative assumptions, their reliance on large-scale infrastructures and technological innovations, and elaborated on the concepts of mobility justice and commoning mobility as a way of devising collective and collaborative means of shaping mobility transitions (Cresswell et. al 2021; Sheller 2018). It is therefore time to interrogate how and in which ways have “mobility transitions” been framed in different places at different times in their multifaceted histories.
Understanding mobility, traffic and transport infrastructure, “ground-breaking” technologies and their everyday usages and routines from a transformation perspective also means considering the practical feasibility of its implementation and associated conflicts: Under what social conditions will the transformation of the mobility system and transport infrastructure be politically possible and accepted? And conversely: Do current and historical social change processes support the transformation of the transport systems of their own accord? And if so, will this transformation actually lead to ecological sustainability?
The conference aims to understand the notions of transition and transformation of mobility and infrastructures, emphasizing the need to understand current changes in the light of the historical transformations of mobilities, but also other fundamental social and economic-technical change processes, e.g., in the course of industrial revolutions, through colonial modernization, or after the fall of state socialism. Furthermore, the conference aims to highlight diverse and pluriverse visions on the departure points as well as desired and envisioned futures of mobility transformations, particularly welcoming subaltern voices, often overlooked because of gender, class, race, and otherness.
TRACKS AND TOPICS
- Contestations around mobility and infrastructures
- Longue durée perspectives on green transitions
- Mobility and infrastructures in front of climate emergency
- Time, temporalities, transitions
- Mobility technologies: technical fix, technological pessimism, shock of the old, and resistances to it
- Global and regional approaches, including e.g. post-Soviet or Sub-Saharan perspectives
- Global politics and geopolitics of mobility and infrastructures
- Mobility transition versus mobility transformations
- Imperial, trans-imperial and (post)colonial infrastructures
- Metaphors of mobility – highway, railroad, route and network.
- Mobility in culture: literary, musical, artistic perspectives
- Arts and creativity towards transformation
- Activism around mobility and infrastructures
- Mobilities on the margins and mobility justice: Race, gender, ethnicity, disability and othering
The conference language is English. The conference is in presence only. Keynote lectures will be streamed online.
The conference has special focus on the all four T2M journals – Mobilities, Transfers, Journal of Transport History and Mobility Humanities. Special sessions in relation to them and publishing opportunities will be organised. Part of the papers will be transferred as proceedings in Special Issues of the T2M journals.
The T2M conference will serve also as the final conference of the CoMoDe Project.
REGISTRATION
All participants must register and pay the registration fee via the conference website.
Registration until 20 September 2024 (attending only!)
- Individual fee: 360 EUR, incl. VAT 19%
- T2M member: 310 EUR, incl. VAT 19%
The registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials, coffee/tea breaks, two lunches (Monday and Tuesday), a welcome reception (Monday), one dinner (Tuesday), and social events.
Please email the Organising Committee t2m(at)leibniz-ifl.de with the subject heading “2024 T2M Inquiry” if you have any questions or concerns. Follow all news on the T2M website: https://comode.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/ and become a member via the T2M website: https://t2m.org/
SUBMISSION FORMATS
Papers: Individual submission of a paper consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words), including contact information. Papers will be grouped thematically by the programme committee and may become part of a 7/7, debate, or panel session.
Sessions: A full, pre-organised 7/7, debate, or panel session. A session submission should include a title, a summary of the session theme and the method chosen for facilitating discussion (300 words), as well as abstracts for each contribution/presentation (300 words). A short biography of each presenter is also required (100 words), with contact information.
7/7 sessions: This means seven slides and seven minutes for each presentation (max 7 papers). The sessions will have plenty of time for discussion. This will be supported by having a chair who might also act as a discussant. Presenters shall focus on their main argument in order to avoid overly complex presentations.
Panel sessions: Panels consist of a chair, three to four paper presenters, and one discussant (optional). Panels should include time for audience discussion. Each presenter has 20 minutes (15 min + 5 min for questions); papers are grouped thematically.
Debate sessions: Debate sessions have a maximum of five presenters. Each gives a five-minute focused input to the topic, and this should be followed by a discussion involving the audience. Led by a chair.
Posters: This is a great way to discuss early or exploratory work and present it as a Poster at the conference. A submission consists of an abstract (300 words) and a brief biography (100 words), including contact information. The full poster is due by 1st of August 2024.
After Acceptance, all abstracts will be published on the conference website. You also have the opportunity to submit a Full paper (5,000 words). We strongly encourage the submission of full papers, which will be shared with all conference delegates. Authors whose contributions are accepted will have until 31st of August 2024 to submit their full paper. Papers may be published in a restricted area for conference participants on the conference website and/or as part of the T2M archive. Consent from authors will be sought in all cases.
Details on how to submit your paper or poster can be found in the conference portal. For any further inquiry, please, send an email to t2m@leibniz-ifl.de
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in cooperation with Lancaster University, Leipzig, Germany.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Carlos Lopez-Galviz, Jinhyoung Lee, Claire Pelgrims, Pierre Barrieau, Jorgen Burchardt, Wladimir Sgibnev, Lyubomir Pozharliev, Karol Kurnicki, Cotten Seiler, Massimo Moraglio, Peter Adey.
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Constantin Blome, Wladimir Sgibnev, Lyubomir Pozharliev, Karol Kurnicki, Maria Petrova, Egor Muleev, Stella Marie Köhler, Bohdan Novoshytskyi.
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