Name: 2024 T2M Annual Conference | Mobilities and Infrastructures: Transitions and Transformations
Start: 2024-09-23T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-26T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Leipzig, Germany

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

from Monday, 23 September 2024 (08:00) to Thursday, 26 September 2024 (22:00)

Monday, 23 September 2024
12:30 Registration - Stella Köhler (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography / CoMoDe) Bohdan Novoshytskyi (Leibniz IfL)
Registration
- Stella Köhler (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography / CoMoDe)
- Bohdan Novoshytskyi (Leibniz IfL)
12:30 - 14:30
Room: 727
13:00 Executive committee meeting - EC members only! - Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
Executive committee meeting - EC members only!
- Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Winter garden, 7th floor For executive committee members only.
14:30 Welcome and opening - Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University) Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
Welcome and opening
- Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
- Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: 716
15:00 Infrastructural Time and Transformations of Mobility Regimes
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 726
Contributions

15:00 Detour ahead? Infrastructure turn and Transport and Mobility History since the Mobilities turn - Govind Gopakumar (Concordia University)

15:15 Queen Brunehilda's roads: transitions and transformations - Cornelis Richard van Tilburg (Dr.)

15:30 Thinking about transport infrastructure in the 18th century France: institutional and financial issues - Anne CONCHON (Université Paris 1)

15:45 On Donkey Trails into the Modern Age: Transport, Transformation and Living Technologies in Southeast Europe after 1945 - Ruža Fotiadis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Unprotected Modes on Contested Ground: Histories of Traffic Activism and Politics
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 716
Contributions

15:00 “Anything that calls on people to fight against the growing brutality on the roads is a good thing”. A Pedestrians’ Association facing mass motorization in the Switzerland of the 1950’s: Motivations and strategies in an unequal political struggle - Tiphaine Robert (UniDistance; EPFL)

15:15 Ways to school as subject of political and societal debate in divided Germany: A comparison between two cities - Silke Zimmer-Merkle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

15:30 The Transforming Transport System and the Everyday Politics of Urban Space: Children in/as Traffic in Eeva Rista’s Helsinki Photographs in the 1960s and 1970s - Tiina Männistö-Funk (University of Turku) Veera Moll (Aalto University)
Smart Mobility and Digital Infrastructures
15:00 - 16:30
Room: 715
Contributions

15:00 Data Mobilities and the Material Geographies of Internet Infrastructures - Finn Dammann (Institut of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

15:15 Material heritage and digital reality: data-managing the past and the sense of history - Elena Tardivo

15:30 Understanding Marginalized Perspectives on Smart Mobility Transition in Hong Kong - Calvin Ming Tsun Lai (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor

17:00 Keynote Speech: Modernization through the Motorway: Neoliberal Transformation of Infrastructure in Poland
Modernization through the Motorway: Neoliberal Transformation of Infrastructure in Poland
17:00 - 18:30
Room: 716

18:30 Walk to the train station
Walk to the train station
18:30 - 18:45

18:45 Dinner at the Historic Waiting Room
Dinner at the Historic Waiting Room
18:45 - 20:45
Room: Historic Waiting Room (entry via Pizza Hut)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
09:30 Navigating Daily Journeys: Rules, Patterns, Infrastructures
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 726
Contributions

09:30 A gendered analysis of shopping mobility for older people in peri-urban areas - Angèle Brachet (LVMT - Université Gustave Eiffel - France)

09:45 Exploring Motorbike Constitutionalism: Informal Practices in Navigating Mobility Regulations in Urban Vietnam - Van Minh Nguyen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

10:00 Having a child but not a car: mobility biographies and social practices of couples who do not increase their car use after childbirth - Filip Schmidt (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan)

10:15 Towards the concept of Mobophilia: The River Tyne - Sorcha MacIntyre (Northumbria University)
Electric Sparks: New and old perspectives of Electric Buses and Trolleybuses
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 716
Contributions

09:30 Electric futures and three wheeled pasts? Battery rickshaws in the discourse on sustainable transport in Bangladesh - Jonas van der Straeten (Eindhoven University of Technology)

09:45 Techno-cannibalism or how to eat a Trolleybus. An Introduction - Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

10:00 Technocracy, instinct of workmanship and authority of procedures in the restoration of Prague’s trolleybuses - Yegor Muleev

10:15 Trolleybuses VS Electrobuses in Bishkek: how to survive between two investment banks - Bermet Borubaeva (BishkekSmog)
Towards Urban Mobility Transitions
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 715
Contributions

09:30 Recalcitrant infrastructures in the mobility transition – Two empirical examples - Luca Nitschke (ISOE-Institute for social-ecological research)

09:45 Shaping urban mobility with city-centre Multimodal Hubs? - Benjamin Dally (HafenCity Universität Hamburg)

10:00 Keep moving: Better understanding joint pathway creations in urban mobility using reconfigurative multi-level analysis - Miriam Müller (Wuppertal Institut)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
11:30 Wheels of Change: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 716
Contributions

11:30 Rise And Fall of Cycling Policy in Indonesia: Jakarta Case of Struggle to Develop and Fund Bike Lanes - Sukma Larastiti (University of Kassel)

11:45 Bicycle Boom of 1890s in Ukrainian Lands: Local Mobilities between Imperial Politics - Olha Martynyuk (University of Basel)

12:00 “Happy as a cyclist – annoyed as a pedestrian” Negotiating walking and cycling in the COVID-19 pandemic - Monika Pentenrieder (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

12:15 Assembling cycling practices through family rides: A comparative analysis of Bike Bus initiatives in Barcelona and Frankfurt - Gemma Simon i Mas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Obstinate Automobility: Promise and Path-Dependency
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 715
Contributions

11:30 The post-soviet car-boom in Estonia - Tambet Muide (Tartu University)

11:45 What’s gone wrong with my road novel? A practice-based road trip through mobility, class and social trauma in contemporary England - Christopher Bogle (Northumbria University)

12:00 Parking Planning and Management History and Prospect on the Development Trend of China's Parking Industry - Chao Zeng

12:15 Standardisation during the Great Acceleration: A case study on road standards in Denmark - Jørgen Burchardt (Middelfart Museum)
Transitions and Transformations of Urban Mobility Infrastructures and Practices in 20th Century East Asia
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 726
Contributions

11:30 Rewriting the “Software” of Service: Upgrading Mobility Experiences on Tokyo’s Railway Network, c. 1949-1990 - Christoph Schimkowsky (University of Tokyo)

11:45 The Transformation of Lanzhou through Wartime Infrastructural Planning - Thorben Pelzer (Leipzig University)

12:00 Nomadic Intellectuals and Wandering Bards: Itinerancy as a Metaphor for Creativity in 1960s Japan - Andrew Kahn (Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

12:15 Tax Exemption of Commuting Allowance and Urban Expansion in Post-war Japan - Shuichi Takashima (Aoyama Gakuin University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
13:30 Executive committee meeting - EC members only! - Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
Executive committee meeting - EC members only!
- Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Winter garden, 7th floor For executive committee members only.
14:30 How to Publish with T2M Journals?

14:30 - 16:00
Room: 716
Comparative Perspectives on Transport in the Post‐Socialist East
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 726
Contributions

14:30 Post-socialist public transport development trajectories: an overview - Wladimir Sgibnev

14:45 Flying biographies in a post-socialist country - Marianna Kostecka (Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) Michał Czepkiewicz (EUROREG, University of Warsaw; Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

15:00 A longitudinal perspective on Moscow public transport system development and factors of change, 1985-2016 - Aleksandr Zelentsov

15:15 Towards a car-dependent society in Poland. Historical background, cultural change and its normative implications - Dawid Krysiński (Adam Mickiewicz University)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor

16:30 Keynote Speech: Electric Mobility Transitions: A Global South and Social Justice Perspective
Electric Mobility Transitions: A Global South and Social Justice Perspective
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 716

18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
09:30 Ethics and Aesthetics of Mobility
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 726
Contributions

09:30 Transforming Transit: Integrating Mobility Aesthetics into Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan - James Wang (Shared Mobility Laboratory)

09:45 Turning travel into an aesthetic experience -- based on a case study of trails in Chongqing - Tao Wang (Chongqing Transport Planning and Research Institute)

10:00 Is There a Flight Shame in a Postsocialist Country? Social emotions associated with travelling and not travelling - Marianna Kostecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Filip Schmidt (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Challenging Imperial Infrastructures from Below: Sovereign States, Local Entrepreneurs, and Workers
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 715
Contributions

09:30 Occupying imperial aviation infrastructure: Persia’s quest for global connectedness, c. 1930 - Andreas Greiner (German Historical Institute Washington DC)

09:45 Imperial companies and railways between Angola and Belgian Congo, 1910-1930 - Beatriz Serrazina (Dinâmia'CET-Iscte)

10:00 Connecting the Nodes: Unpacking British and French Imperial Air Routes in the Middle East, 1924-1939 - Jordi Tejel Gorgas (Université de Neuchâtel)
Planning, Funding, and Using Mobility Infrastructures
09:30 - 11:00
Room: 716
Contributions

09:30 Chongqing River-crossing Ropeway: Decline to Rebirth - Zhengzheng Yang (Chongqing Jiaotong University)

09:45 Fare-Free and Carefree? Effects of Public Transport Fare (Infra)structures on Mobility Transitions and Experiences - Louise Sträuli (Tallinn University)

10:00 Reducing urban space: establishment of parking space norms in Finland - Maria Käpyvaara (Doctoral student) Veera Moll (AA)

10:15 Green Cities Program in Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Public Transport between Global Funding Trends and Neglected Infrastructural Maintenance - Mariya Petrova (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
11:30 Balancing Efficiency, Livability and Sustainability in Urban Mobility
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 715
Contributions

11:30 Keeping a Track: Women’s Location Sharing and Mobility in New Delhi - Smriti Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi)

11:45 The Coloniality of Infrastructures: Understanding the Green Turn of Tbilisi's Public Transport Reform - Lela Rekhviashvili (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

12:00 No way out? The challenge of diverging interests and trajectories in urban mobility transformations: The example of Leipzig’s public transport infrastructure 1989-2001 and its twofold transformation. - Laura Höss

12:15 Urban conflict on the Chandless Estate; the impact of infrastructure development in postwar twentieth century Gateshead - Adam Dixon (Northumbria University)
Social Inequalities in the Cycling Experience
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 716
Contributions

11:45 Experimenting with Cycling Experiences: Achieving the Compact City on the Outskirts? - Carmen Kern (RCE Gra-Styria, University of Graz)

12:00 Exploring differential cycling experiences in South Yorkshire using wearable cameras - Mia Rafalowicz-Campbell (CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University)

12:15 So you live, so you cycle. An innovative mixed-method for analysing socio-spatial and gender inequalities in the daily experience of cycling in Bogotá. - Maëlle Lucas (Université Rennes 2 - ESO Rennes)
Rail Imaginations: Weaving Tracks of Transformative Thought
11:30 - 13:00
Room: 726
Contributions

11:30 Langston Hughes and the Nickel Plate Road: African American Railway Imaginations, 1900–54 - Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University)

11:45 Post-Imperial Agency of North Eurasian Rail Roads: Central Asia and Siberia. - Pavel Demchenko (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

12:00 Can I Meet the Stationmaster? Peopling the Railway in Postcolonial India - Nirali Joshi (Abo Akademy Turku)

12:15 Building a track of shared dreams and memoirs: gleaning insights on collective transport financing from the Hejaz Railway project - Zeynep Correia (Åbo Akademi University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
14:00 T2M 2024 General Assembly - open to everyone! - Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University) Claire Pelgrims (Université libre de Bruxelles)
T2M 2024 General Assembly - open to everyone!
- Carlos Lopez Galviz (Lancaster University)
- Claire Pelgrims (Université libre de Bruxelles)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: 716 All interested participants are invited to join.
14:30 Identity, Power and Justice in Mobility Transitions
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 716
Contributions

14:30 Cycle Highways and Inclusive Infrastructure: New Imaginaries, or Old Frames of Reference? - Manon Eskenazi (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées)

14:45 Keeping socio-technical transitions equitable: freight vehicle electrification in and around North America’s largest inland port - Julie Cidell (University of Illinois)

15:05 No change in mobility transition without including the gender perspective - Brigitte Wotha (FH Kiel)

15:20 Some aspects of socio-spatial justice in urban mobility transitions in Tbilisi, Georgia - Giorgi Kankia (Linköping University)
The Latest Mobility: Two centuries of Italian policies and tendencies regarding regional transportation and mobility
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 726
Contributions

14:30 Steam and water: was rail transport the last nail in the coffin of inland navigation in Lombardy- Venetia? - Federico Meneghini Sassoli (Università di Pavia)

14:45 From infrastructure progress to transport service worsening: The case of transforming the Circumetnea railway into a subway and its impacts on historical and landscape heritage in the Simeto Valley inner area in Sicily. - Giulio Pappa (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)

15:00 Secondary railways and automobile competition: crisis and first transformations of mobility in the Tuscan inland areas (1930-1945) - Leandro Stacchini (Università di Firenze e Siena)
Imagining and Conceptualizing Modernity through Mobility
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 715
Contributions

14:30 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.)

14:45 Soviet life through the eyes of locomotives. Ramona of Rezo Gabriadze. - Victoria Legkikh (Technische Universität München)

15:00 Everyday Mobility in Istanbul at the Turn of the 20th Century: Navigating a City in Flux - Müge Özbek (Kadir Has University)

15:15 Transport, mobility, and photography in Portugal (1870s-1910s) - Hugo Pereira (NOVA School of Science and Technology - CIUHCT)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 706 and corridor, 7th floor
16:30 Contestations around Mobility and Infrastructures
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 715
Contributions

16:30 Productive, inclusive and smart? (Un)timely endings of shared cycle schemes in Stockholm, Sweden - Karin Edberg (Linköping University)

16:45 Protest against new motorways in France and the myth of travel time savings - Emmanuel Munch

17:00 Public Transport and the Right to the City in a Medium Sized West German Town - tim zumloh (LWL-Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte)
Mobility at the Checkpoint
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 716
Contributions

16:30 Contested mobility and temporality in the border of south-east Georgia - Klaudia Kosicińska (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS)

16:45 Cross-border Public transport in the trinational Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa. History and perspectives - Moritz Filter

17:00 Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs: Borders, Bureaucracy, and Geopolitics in between Ukraine, Moldova, and the EU - Claudia Eggart
Narrative Representations of Mobility
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 726
Contributions

16:30 The Road in Contemporary Francophone African Narratives of Mobility - Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Eastern Finland)

16:45 Alien Encounters with the Past, Present, and Future: Mobility Justice in South African Science-Fiction - Sophie Kriegel

17:00 Transatlantic Slavery and the “Ghostly Afterlives” of Black Im/Mobilities - Marian Ofori-Amoafo (University of Bayreuth)

17:15 Unified Segregation on the American Interstate: Comparing Civil Rights Era Road Narratives by John Williams (This is My Country Too) and John Steinbeck (Travels with Charlie) - Andrew Vogel (Kutztown State University of Pennsylvania)
18:00 Tranfer to the cinema - Schaubühne Lindenfels
Tranfer to the cinema - Schaubühne Lindenfels
18:00 - 19:00

19:00 Dinner at Schaubühne Lindenfels
Dinner at Schaubühne Lindenfels
19:00 - 20:00
20:00 "Corridor #8" screening and Discussion - Boris Missirkov (AGITPROP Production) Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
"Corridor #8" screening and Discussion
- Boris Missirkov (AGITPROP Production)
- Lyubomir Pozharliev (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
20:00 - 21:30
We will be joined by the member of the production team of the film - Boris Missirkov - and will have a discussion after the screening. Read more about the film and our guest on our website: https://comode.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/corridor-8-movie-screening/
Thursday, 26 September 2024

10:00 Excursions
Excursions
10:00 - 14:00

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