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2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations

23–26 Sept 2024
Leipzig, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone
Welcome to the 2024 T2M Conference – we hope you find the sessions inspiring and the connections invaluable.

Local Organizing Team

Session

Imagining and Conceptualizing Modernity through Mobility

PS 9
25 Sept 2024, 14:30
Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig, Germany

Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 10 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Conveners

Imagining and Conceptualizing Modernity through Mobility

  • Jinhyoung Lee (Konkuk University)

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  1. 61. Diasporic designs as an embodiment of Cultural Mobility: Fashion Manifesting the Narratives of Transition
    Gurpreet Kaur (Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.)
    25/09/2024, 14:30
    Paper

    Stephen Greenblatt has elaborated that “a vital global cultural discourse (then) is quite ancient" (6) and not a recent phenomenon. Furthermore, Arjun Appadurai’s theory of global cultural flows proposes the idea of different “scapes”. All cultures and societies manifest these “scapes” and the fluidity of their flow indicates a new face of the world where geographical boundaries becomes...

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  2. 29. Soviet life through the eyes of locomotives. Ramona of Rezo Gabriadze.
    Victoria Legkikh (Technische Universität München)
    25/09/2024, 14:45
    Paper

    In 2012 Rezo Gabriadze performed “Ramona”, a new version of his puppet show “The Locomotive”. This is a tragic romantic story about love between to locomotives – Ramona and Ermon. In the performance locomotive Ermon departs and Ramona remains at the station. But in spite of prohibition to leave the station, Ramona agrees to help the circus and not only bring them to the desired place but...

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  3. 48. Everyday Mobility in Istanbul at the Turn of the 20th Century: Navigating a City in Flux
    Müge Özbek (Kadir Has University)
    25/09/2024, 15:00
    Paper

    This paper investigates everyday human mobility in Istanbul during the late Ottoman period, a time marked by profound demographic, social, economic and infrastructural transformations. It aims to move beyond simply charting physical movements to explore how daily movements intersected with and shaped by the city's evolving infrastructure, social fabric and power dynamics
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  4. 69. Transport, mobility, and photography in Portugal (1870s-1910s)
    Hugo Pereira (NOVA School of Science and Technology - CIUHCT)
    25/09/2024, 15:15
    Paper

    This paper examines the construction and dissemination of representations of Portuguese mainland transportation systems by photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before World War I. It shows how photography naturalised mobility-objects (vehicles and infrastructure) and how it created a new mobilityscape associated with abstract concepts, like progress or modernity....

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