Programme

Speakers

• Virgílio Cruz Machado, Dean of NOVA School of Science and Technology
• Carlos López Galvíz, President of T2M
• José Luís Hernández, Secretary of ASIHF
• Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Coordinator of CIUHCT
• Hugo Silveira Pereira, Chair of the LOC

Panel: Everyday Mobilities in Africa (I) Room 1

Organiser: Robert Heinze
Chair: Isabel Amaral

• Robert Heinze, Fabrikarbeiter and Matatu Men: Writing a history of informal transport through the concept of ‘Eigensinn’
• Friedrich N. Ammermann, The everyday life of an imperial mega-project: The Cape to Cairo Railway and its users, c. 1918-1963
• Baz Lecocq, Dmitri van den Bersselaar, A social cultural history of civil aviation in Africa

Panel: Traffic management in transition – The beginnings of automation and digitalisation of traffic information systems 1960 – 1990 (railways, road, inland navigation) Room 2

Organiser: Christian Henrich-Franke
Chair: Ana Duarte Rodrigues

• Christopher Kopper, Railways: The Bundesbahn in the Federal Government’s Transport Policy Planning
• Veit Damm, Roads: Traffic management through traffic radio – From analogue traffic report to digital navigation
• Christian Henrich-Franke, Inland navigation: Traffic planning and traffic control on the Rhine

Panel: Railways, Cinema and Photography: contributions to the study of Mobility Room 3

Organiser: Alexandre Ramos
Chair: Eduardo Duarte
Discussant: Sheila Palomares

• Ana Cardoso de Matos, Railways, Mobility and Landscape: an approach from cinema and photography
• Alexandre Ramos, Trains, Camara, Action! A cinematographic view of the history of transport and mobility
• Paulo Miguel Martins, Expresso Lisboa – Madrid

Panel: Toward a gendered history of transport and mobility Room 1

Organiser: Melina Piglia
Chair: Melina Piglia
Discussant: Paola Jirón

• Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira, Melina Piglia, Nationalism and gender. Comparing images of women in Brazilian and Argentine airlines during the golden years
• Verónica Pérez, Candela Hernández, Transport female workers: Barriers and conditions to their participation in a masculinized sector
• Massimo Moraglio, Nora Bonatz, White, adult, male, and rich: normativity and escapism in James Bond’s mobility

General session: Railways, heritage, tourism Room 2

Chair: Hugo Silveira Pereira

• Aleksandra Ianchenko, Art on Rails: Tramway as a Site for Public Art
• Ana Boranieva, The City Beneath the Rails. The potential of the railway station artifact, the case of Skopje
• Brenno Vitorino Costa, Thiago Allis, Railway heritage and its circulation: tourism use of ancient train stations in State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Antonio Cosentino, The experiential tourism in Calabria: the case study of the Silana Railway

General session: Cross-border mobilities Room 3

Chair: Hugo Soares

• Sophie Schor, Buses as Border-Crossers: A history of transit infrastructure in Israel and Palestine
• Ekata Bakshi, Rethinking mobility in the context of Partition-induced forced-migration in West Bengal, India: Exploring the linkages with caste, region and gender

Panel: Mobile methods and their uses in urban interventions Room 1

Organiser: Jonnet Middleton
Chair: Carlos López-Galviz
Discussant: Monika Büscher

• Victoria de la Barra, “Trajectories” and “Barriers”: concepts and methodologies to move urban planning in Chile
• Walter Imilan, Mobile methods contesting urban analysis: Outlooking dwelling in precarious urban settings
• Jorge Gallego-Méndez, Lina Marcela García-Moreno, Jackeline Murillo-Hoyos, Ciro Jaramillo Molina, Micro-accessibility Analysis Of Informal Settlements: A Space-time Prism Approach
• Joiselen Cazanave Macías, Jorge Peña Díaz, Danay Díaz Pérez, The challenge of addressing micro-mobility in Havana: The case of informal settlements

Debate: Disseminating knowledge through Special Issues of Journals Room 2

Organiser: Jim Cohen
Moderator: Mike Esbester
Speakers: Hans Liudger-Dienel, Massimo Moraglio, Valentina Fava, Melina Piglia, Javier Vidal

General session: Aesthetics, metaphors and futures in transport and mobility Room 3

Chair: Ana Duarte Rodrigues

• Samuel Mutter, The Kin-aesthetics of Urban Infrastructural Mobilities: Movement, Sensation and Value in the London Underground’s Philosophy of Design
• Pierre Barrieau, Fleeting modernity in transportation planning: Transpo ‘72 vision of the future
• Meike Brodersen, Vaike Fors, Kaspar Raats, Automating the last mile? Reframing mobility narratives through collaborative design ethnography

Panel: The metro in South America. Past and present of a global transport technology Room 1

Organiser: Maximiliano Velázquez
Chair: Maximiliano Velázquez

• Dhan Zunino Singh, Transatlantic technology travel. The underground railways in Buenos Aires (1913-1944)
• Oliver Cauã Cauê França Scarcelli, Constrained freedom: the layout definition of São Paulo Metro’s Line 1 (Blue)
• Andra B. Chastain, The Santiago Metro under the Concertación: State-Building, Social Conflict, and the Search for Profit
• Marcos Kiyoto de Tani e Isoda, Klara Anna Maria Kaiser Mori, The development of São Paulo’s Metropolitan network and socio-spatial segregation

7/7 session: Transport Networks and Histories of Exclusion (since the late 19th Century) Room 2

Organiser: Andreas Greiner
Chair: Geert Castryck
Discussant: Geert Castryck

• Miriam Pfordte, “We live at the world’s end”: Spatial experiences of infrastructural disruptions along the inner German Border, 1950-1990
• Andreas Greiner, A Tale of Two Cities, c. 1900: Infrastructure Divestment as Tool of Spatial Transformation in Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo
• Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Migration Control at the Ticket Desk: Carriers, Black Markets, and Air Access to Europe in the 1980s/90s
• Mario Peters, “A Dantesque Route Sketched by Devils”: The Planning of Inter-American Transportation Infrastructure, 1890/1929

General session: Mobility and the COVID-19 Pandemic Room 3

Chair: M. Luísa Sousa

• Daniela Costanzo, Victor Callil, Covid-19 pandemic: changes in urban mobility and bicycle in Brazilian big cities
• Mimi Sheller, Repairing the Mobile Commons: Mobility Justice Today
• John Axl A. Palisoc, Corona cycleways in the Global South: Cycling and the (non)future of public transport in rural Philippines
• Sara Woodbury, Contextualizing Museum Engagement in the Global Pandemic
• Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira, Thiago Allis, Tourism and sedentarism: discussing place consumption in pandemic times

Panel: Everyday Mobilities in Africa (II) Room 1

Organiser: Niels P. Petersson
Chair: Niels P. Petersson

• Niels P Petersson, ‘Adventure’, ‘ruthless commercialism’ and ‘nuisance’: The East African Safari Rally and the use of Kenya’s public roads for sporting purposes
• David Drengk, People, technology, and nature: Operating a railway in the evergreen rainforest of colonial Ivory Coast
• Eduardo Beira, “If no rails, do it without rails”. Paiva Couceiro and the mobility in Angola. Using advanced technology in the search for a “silver bullet” for fast occupation and development in Africa, ca. 1900

7/7 session: Mobilities in Transition and the Climate Emergency Room 2

Organiser: Lynne Pearce
Chair: Jen Southern

• Monika Büscher, Measuring up Mobility Politics: Societal readiness for mobility transformation
• MJ Hunter Brueggemann, Trapped in the Wrong Paradigm: Rethinking Disciplinary Positionality, Responsibility, Consistency and Agency
• Jonnet Middleton, Immobile ontologies: Forgoing mobility or going nowhere?
• Lynne Pearce, Britain’s Changing Roadscapes: Attachment, Loss and Re-Enchantment
• Stephanie Sodero, Vital Mobilities: Medical Supply Chains in the Climate Emergency
• Nicola Spurling, Mobilities Disruptions and Future Biographies
• David Tyfield, Molibity – Rethinking liberty and mobilities in an age of climate emergency

Panel: Contesting mobility from below, mobilising bottom-up contestations: contemporary and historical explorations (1) — Commoning Mobility Room 1

Organiser: Wojciech Keblowski
Chair: Wojciech Kębłowski, Tonio Weicker, Adam Borch, Tauri Tuvikene

• Aline Moreira Fernandes Barata, Exploring the role of participation in shaping, reframing and contesting mobilities from below: Lessons from Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Luca Nitschke, Everyday resistance, re-embedding and commoning: Non-commercial carsharing and the contestation of automobility
• Robert Braun, Richard Randell, Can idiōtēs help us to post-automobility?
• Louise Sträuli, The digital and everyday sides of fare evasion as a contesting practice in public transport

Panel: (Un)equal footing: configurations, orderings, otherings Room 2

Organiser: Martin Emanuel
Chair: M. Luísa Sousa
Discussant: Massimo Moraglio

• Martin Emanuel, Sidewalks in the liberal city: walking and publicness in late 19th century Stockholm
• Clare Hickman, Glen O’Hara, Contesting access to England’s land: who owns the ‘right to roam’?
• Franck Cochoy, Walking or running during the pandemic: do speed and masks matter?

Panel: Contesting mobility from below, mobilising bottom-up contestations: contemporary and historical explorations (2) — Trajectories of Mobile Citizenship Room 1

Organiser: Wojciech Keblowski
Chair: Wojciech Kębłowski, Tonio Weicker, Adam Borch, Tauri Tuvikene

• Assaf Mond, A “Garden City” around Tram Route 44: Planned Space and Used Space in a Great-War London Housing Project
• Sreelakshmi Ramachandran, Stuart Macdonald, Yogi Joseph, Govind Gopakumar, Mobile citizenship as performed, negotiated and contested on transforming Indian streets
• Silja Laine, Cultural Memory of the Turku Tram
• Inbal Ofer, On solitary transit stations and one’s right to the city: Neighborhood Associations and the struggle for transportation infrastructures in the metropolitan area of Madrid (1965 – 1985)

Panel: (Un)equal footing: configurations, orderings, otherings (II) Room 2

Organiser: Daniel Normark
Chair: M. Luísa Sousa
Discussant: Massimo Moraglio

• Tiina Männistö-Funk, Material-discursive practices of urban walking in Finland of the 1960s and 1970s
• Daniel Normark, Martin Emanuel, Breaching the system: traffic signals and rule following among pedestrians in Stockholm and Copenhagen

Poster session Room 3

Chair: Daniel Gamito-Marques

• Kana Ohashi, Daijiro Mizuno, Exploring the experiences of virtual travels under the COVID-19: A visual ethnographic study in Japan
• Alejandro Guzmán Robles, Analysis of mobility scenarios based on the centralities of a medium-sized city: the case of the Metropolitan Region of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
• Aleksandra Ianchenko, Sketching atmospheres of public transport stops
• Juliana Carvalho, Are we heading were we thought we were going? Contrasting normative and cinematic accounts of the future of urban mobility

Panel: Politics and cultures of Cycling: global, contemporary and historical explorations (Part I) Room 1

Organiser: Dhan Zunino Singh, Claire Pelgrims
Chair: Dhan Zunino Singh

• Nicolas Debaes, Crises and utilitarian bicycle use in Argentina. Comparing the 1940s with the covid pandemic
• Maëlle Lucas, Cycling as a choice or as a necessity? Evolution of the cyclists’ profiles and the mobility’s social imaginaries in Bogotá
• Claire Pelgrims, The evolution of cyclists-bicycle hybrids. Preliminary results on gender and bicycling aesthetics
• Marion Lagadic, The makings of a gendered cycling contract in Tokyo

Debate: Too many or not enough Journals? Boundaries and future of mobility studies and transport history Room 2

Organiser: Massimo Moraglio
Speakers: Stéphanie Ponsavady, Hugo Silveira Pereira, Massimo Moraglio, Ruth Oldenziel, Sven Kesselring

General session: Urban and metropolitan mobilities Room 3

Chair: João Monteiro

• Luísa Gonçalves, Transit stations and urban development: Palmeiras-Barra Funda Terminal in São Paulo metropolis (Brazil) between local and metropolitan scales
• Juliana Carvalho, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Rosário Macário, How are we getting there? Metropolitan experiences in collaborative mobility planning

Panel: Politics and cultures of Cycling: global, contemporary and historical explorations (Part II) Room 1

Organiser: Dhan Zunino Singh, Claire Pelgrims
Chair: Claire Pelgrims

• Alba Francisca Vásquez Jiménez, Urban collective action: Cycling as a social and political claim
• Patrick Rérat, Matthieu Gillot, Santiago’s “Cycling Revolution”: Demands for mobility justice
• Alejandro Manga, Erased inequalities and cycling futures: comparing the US, France, and Latin America
• Dhan Zunino Singh, Maximiliano Velázquez, Individual scape or mobility transition? A critical view about the boom of the bicycle during the Covid-19 in Buenos Aires

7/7 session: Teaching Transport & Mobility History Room 2

Organiser: Mike Esbester
Chair: Maria Paula Diogo

• Mike Esbester, Teaching & the future of transport and mobility history
• Andrea Caracausi, Combining Mobility Studies and Humanities in a Masters Program
• Melina Piglia, Teaching Transport from the Periphery: some reflections on the experience of post-graduate / graduate teaching in Argentina
• M. Luísa Sousa, Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, “Relying on their own inner resources”: Practice-based learning, mobility studies, historical perspective and critical thinking
• David Turner, Teaching transport & mobility history at a distance

General session: Economics of mobility Room 3

Chair: Hugo Soares

• Anne Conchon, Transport space and distance pricing in the 18 century
• Robert Matej Bednar, Figuring the Cost of Automobility: Roadside Car Crash Shrines as the Materialization of Collective Trauma
• Jørgen Burchardt, Path dependency in road transport technology 1400-1850

General session: Moving around railway history Room 2

Chair: Isabel Amaral

• José-Luis Hernández-Marco, The Spanish backwardness in the participation of rail in globalized intermodal freight traffic: from around 1960 to the present day
• Adonis M. Y. Li, War, Trade and Reconstruction on Hong Kong’s Kowloon-Canton Railway, 1937-1949
• Hugo Silveira Pereira, Portuguese Railways as Critical Infrastructures, 1850s – 1900s
• Di Zhao, Developing European Railways in China: The Accounts of Diplomats, Engineers and Enthusiasts

General session: Roads, maps, networks Room 3

Chair: Jaume Valentines-Álvarez

• Cornelis van Tilburg, Roads, routes, ruts: The Assyrian road network
• Simone Fari, Miguel Pazos, Mobilities Studies and Iberian scholars
• Zef Segal, Maps on The Move: The Introduction of Motion into Modern Cartography

General session: Urban and regional mobility Room 1

Chair: Cristina Luís

• Ram Paulo A. Anayan, Fuerza: Forces that Produce Iloilo Urban Space
• Bruna Vendemmia, Giovanni Lanza, An approach to reconsider the notion of basic needs in low density territories: a case study on the North of Italy Apennine
• Moayad Shammut, Muhammad Imrana, Faraz Hasan, Autonomous Mobilities and Social Meanings: The Case of New Zealand

Panel: Movement, Affection, and Community Ethics Room 2

Organiser: Jinhyoung Lee
Chair: Jinhyoung Lee

• Taehee Kim, An Ethics of Place in a High-Mobility Era
• Jinhyoung Lee, The Origin of Anti-Korea(n) Sentiment in the Post-War Japanese Society
• Myungsim Yang, Migration Routes and Experiences of Zainichi Diaspora
• Yeonhee Woo, Mobility and Crossing Boundaries of Korean Diaspora in Japan
• Jin Suk Bae, Food Culture and Cultural Identities among Korean Return Migrants from Latin America

Panel: Mobile cultures and Anthropocene Room 1

Organiser: Nathalie Roseau
Chair: Nathalie Roseau

• Nathalie Roseau, Where to land? Footprints and futures of mobile cultures
• Arnaud Passalacqua, The history of mobility, an interdisciplinary tool for training the future actors of post-carbon mobility
• Guillaume de Syon, ‘Speed, Speed! Let’s do it like the Americans!’ Nostalgia and Envy in the marketing of supersonic flight
• Carlos López Galviz, The Dissonance of Timescales and the Anthropocene Mobilities and Infrastructures in the Morecambe Bay

General session: The world of railways Room 3

Chair: Hugo Silveira Pereira

• Michelangelo van Meerten, Development of the railway industries in the globalization prior to WWI in Belgium and France: domestic demand, regulations, and exports
• Peter F. N. Hörz, Between ‹rail-euphoria› and ‹rail-phobia›: Public discourse on a light-rail project in southwestern Germany – a cultural anthropologist’s perception of running events
• Ingrid Schepers, “Making the working-class mobile”: railway policies, labour markets and the spatial organisation of Belgium between 1870 and 1910