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All GMN members are welcome and encouraged to advertise and promote the latest upcoming mobilities events and calls for papers in this space. If you have an event that you would like to be advertised on this page and also through our global mailing list, please contact the GMN and Cemore administrator at cemore@lancaster.ac.uk for further guidance. CfPs are organised according to submission deadline dates.

 

September 2020

  • 2-5 September 2020 15th International Conference on Urban History, Antwerp, Belgium
    More info here>>

October 2019

  • 25-27 October 2019 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) of the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University), Kritika Kultura (Ateneo de Manila University), and UNITAS (University of Santo Tomas) seeks papers on the conference theme: “Life, Thinking, and Culture in the Era of High Mobility.”
    More info here>>

 

  • 6th – 10th October, 7th Master Class on EU Cohesion Policy for PhD Students & Early Career Researchers – 17th European Week of Regions and Cities.
    More info here>>>

September 2019

  • 23-27 September 2019 2DFG Research Group ‘Landnahme, Acceleration, Activation’ and the 2nd Regional Conference of the German Sociological Association at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 
    More info>>

 

  • 12 September The Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua has opened a 24-months postdoctoral position to develop research in line with the Department project on Mobilities & the Humanities. Candidates shall submit a research project exploring new paradigms for the study of mobilities in the humanities that could also possibly animate the Digital Laboratory for Mobility Research (MOBILAB) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility and the Humanities which are under construction at the Department. The call is open to anyone with a research profile in geography, history, anthropology, classical languages and philology holding a PhD title. Candidates shall have carried out documented research activities at non-Italian universities or other research institutions for at least 6 months in the 3 years prior to the selection announcement deadline.
    More info here>>

August 2019

  • 29-20 August 2019 On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki, Finland
    More info here>>

 

  • 27-30 August 2019 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK
    More info here>>

 

  • 20-23 August 2019: European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, UK
    More info here>>

 

  • 2 August deadline for the John Scholes Transport History Prize Competition
    The prize is named in memory of John Scholes, the first Curator of Historical Relics at the British Transport Commission.
    The prize is funded by the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M – www.t2m.org) and SAGE, publishers of the Journal of Transport History.
    More info here>>

 

  • 27th-31st August 2019 IUAES2019 Intercongress, World Solidarities , Poznan, Poland
    More info here>>

 

 

July 2019

 

  • CFP Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2019 9-13 July 2019, Hobart, Tasmania
    More info here>>

 

  • 3rd-5th July Technologies of Bordering: creating, contesting and resisting borders conference
    More info here>>>

 

June 2019

 

  • European Management Academy Annual Conference, Lisbon , 26-28 June 2019
    More info here>>

 

  • CFP: Future methodological approaches to superdiversity
    26-28 June 2019. Panel proposed for the 16th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Malmö
    More info here>>>

 

  • 16th-19th June Nordic Geographers Meeting 2019
    CFP: Uneven Mobilities and the Production of Subjectivity
    and
    CFP: Vital Mobilities: When Moving Matters
    More info here>>>

 

  • 12th June MOVING LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES NARRATIVE FORMS AND PRACTICES OF MOBILITIES. The purpose of this colloquium is to think about the ongoing reciprocal exchange between the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and literary geographies. In particular, the event aims at interrogating the diverse ways in which the theories and methodologies triggered by the ‘mobility paradigm’ interact with literary geographies.
    More info here>>>

 

  • 5th-7th June 2019 2019 Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Conference will be a major event in the field of regional and urban studies, policy and development. The conference aims to discuss how to push regions beyond all kinds of borders and we are calling upon the regional studies, policy and neighbouring communities to join us in Santiago de Compostela.
    More info here>>> 

 

 

May 2019

 

  • Young Researchers Conference @ World Conference on Transport Research 
    26 May 2019 to 31 May 2019
    Hosted by : World Conference on Transport Research at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
    More info here>>>

 

  • 23rd – 25th May, 2019, 4th Biannual Conference Social Sciences & Health Innovations, Tomsk, Russia,
    More info here>>

 

  • 16th-17th May, 2019 World Congress on Humanities and Social Sciences (WCHSS-2019)
    More info here>>>

 

  • 9th-11th May 2019, Forum for Cultural Literacy in Europe (CLE)
    The CLE Forum Steering Committee is in a position to offer a limited number of travel scholarships to attend the conference to outstanding doctoral or post-doctoral students who are conducting research in the fields of hospitality, transcultural and migration studies. 
    More info here>> 

 

 

April 2019

  • 3-7th April 2019 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
    Washington DC, Floating Life ~
    More info here>>>

 

  • 1st April 2019 Call for papers: Staying with Speculation: Natures, Futures, Politics
    Global Discourse, Volume 10, Issue 3
    Edited by Luke R. Moffat, Lancaster University
    More info here>>>

 

  • 1st April [DEADLINE] Visiting Research Fellowships in the Centre for Digital Media Cultures, University of Brighton
    More info here>>>

 

March 2019

  • 31st March deadline for applications 2019 RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference 2019, Lublin, Poland
    More info here>>>

 

  • 31 March 2019 deadline for abstracts: Cities, Urban Citizenship and the Promotion of Social Inclusion, edited by Rachel Kurian and Helen Hintjens
    More info here>>

 

  • 29th March deadline. The June 2019 edition of the International Journal of Diaspora and Cultural Criticism seeks submissions on the theme: “Mobilities and Humanities: Towards multidisciplinary approaches”
    More info here>>>

 

  • 29 March deadline: The Regional Studies Association (RSA) have launched a policy research initiative worth £15,000 (c. $19,000; c. €16,800) to successful teams aiming to connect their work  and wider communities to societal questions and policy needs.
    More info here>>

 

  • 28th- 29th March Conference: Transforming Mobility and Immobility: Brexit and Beyond
    Hosted by : University of Sheffield
    More info here>>>

 

  • 15 March 2019 Deadline AnESRC PhD studentshipon international migration and fair employment in the Scottish fishing industry is being offered by the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
    More info here>>

 

  • 13th-15th March 2019. SPMob2019, The Second School of Advanced Science in Mobility, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    More info here>>>

 

  • 6 March 2019 There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, Book Launch by Mike-Berners-Lee.
    More info here>>

February 2019

  • 28 February 2019 Abstracts deadline: Call for Papers – Boundary Spanning and Reconstitution: Migration, Community and Belonging
    More info here>>

 

  • 15th Februray 2019 deadline. Call for papers: ‘Critical Thinking in Tourism Studies’ for Tourism, Culture and Communication, managed by Guest Editors Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK and Maximiliano Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina.
    More info here>>

 

  • 14th February 2019. Cycling Cultures: Insights and Methods at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
    More info here>>

 

  • 1st February 2019 deadline for abstract submission. Call for abstracts for the Research Stream Sociology of Spatial Mobilities at the next European Sociological Association Conference in Manchester on 20-23 August 2019.
    More info here>>

January 2019

 

  • 27th January deadline for applications 2019 RSA North America Conference 2019, Montreal, Canada
    More info here>>

 

  • 19th January 2019 (midnight) Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Brighton: Generational re/imaginings of automobile futures in transport industry and policy and in everyday mobilities
    More info here>>

 

  • 15th January deadline for non-Eu/EEA students. Deadline for EU/EEA and Swiss students is 1 March 2019
    New Masters-programme launch: Nordic Urban Planning Studies
    More info here>>

 

  • Journal: California Italian Studies
    Themed Issue: “Borderless Italy (Italia senza frontiere)” California Italian Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 9 (2019). Submissions may be for either the thematic or the open-themed parts of the volume* in either English or Italian. Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2019, although earlier submissions will be given priority.
    More info here>>>

 

  • 11th January 2019: Call for contributions: proposed Journal of Transport Geography Special Issue “Geographies of bike-sharing and emerging forms of shared micro-mobility” More info here>>

 

December 2018

 

  • 10th December deadline for applications: 2018 RSA Annual Conference 2019, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
    More info here>>
  • 4th-7th December 2018. Health, Wellbeing and Transport Course
    Kellogg College, University of Oxford
    More info here>>
  • 1st December 2018 Deadline: Experimental Museology: Institutions, Representations, Users
    Open call for chapters for edited volume.
    More info here>> 

 

November 2018
  • 29th-30th November 2018 Living Mobilities: Pathways, Directions and Policies. International and Interdisciplinary seminar.
    Call for papers deadline 05.09.2018. Universidade de Evora. 
    More info here>>

 

  • 30th November 2018 deadline. Virtual Special Issue on “Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for BioMedical Data Analysis: Methods and Applications”,
    Applied Soft Computing journal, Elsevier (Impact Factor:3.907).
    More info here>>

 

  • 30th November deadline. The International Journal of Diaspora and Cultural Criticism is now accepting submissions for our Special Issue on the themes: “Diaspora, Mobilities and Cultural Criticism” to be published in January 2019.
    More info here>>

 

  • November 29th and 30th CfP for conference: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy
    More info here>>

 

  • November 28th The BIG HEALTH DATA & Privacy Preserving Practices Workshop will take place on 28th November 2018, 09:00 – 16:30, ImaginationLab, Lancaster University.
    More info here>>

 

  • November 23rd Application deadline for a funded PhD Scholarship at Manchester Metropolitan University, Dept of Psychology
    Cycling and Identity: Examining the role of social identity processes in transport choice and cycling
    More information here>>>

 

  • 15th November, 2018 Smart Storytelling Day & 8th International Mobile Innovation Screening (16th November)
    Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
    More information here>>>

 

 

  • 8th-9th November 2018, Reinventing Mobilities and Borders: Cross-disciplinary Conversations
    Karelian Institute, UEF, Joensuu campus
    Organizers: Driss Habti and Tuulikki Kurki, Karelian Institute, UEF driss.habti@uef.fi, tuulikki.kurki@uef.fi
    More information here>>

 

  • 8th November RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2018 in exile: Dangerous Movements this CET 18:30-2000. It is hosted by University of Kent Paris School of Culture and Arts, Reid Hall, 75006, Paris, France. Follow actions ‘live’ on Twitter CET 18:30-20:00: #r3fest #runrunrunart #runningstudies.
    More information here>>> 

 

  • Date: 8 November 2018. One day conference on Transnational Higher Education and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) University of Manchester. You can register here.
    More information here>>>

 

  • Call for Papers: Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 33: Ocean Crossings
    1st November deadline
    More info here>>

 

October 2018
  • October 19th Deadline Call for Papers: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
    Washington DC, 3-7 April 2019
    Floating Life ~
    Session convenors
    Libby Straughan, University of Melbourne
    David Bissell, University of Melbourne
    Andrew Gorman-Murray, Western Sydney University
    More info here>>> 

 

  • October 17th, 2018, Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
    More information here>>

 

  • October 15, 2018 56th International Making Cities Livable Conference on a Healthy City for ALL Portland and design competition, or June 17-21, 2019. More information here>> 

 

  • 14th October, CfP: Relational Geographies of Infrastructural Violence
    For the International Critical Geography Conference (ICCG), Athens, 19-23 April 2019, More information here>>

 

  • 12th October Regional Heritage Centre, Upland Landscapes and World Heritage – insights from the past and prospects for the future.
    More information here>>

 

  • 11th October Transcultural Utopian Imagination and the Future: South Asia, Britain, and Beyond: a one-day symposium.
    More information here>>

 

  • 1st October, 2018 Cfp Deadline: One-day conference on 8 November 2018 at the University of Manchester (Manchester, UK) on: Transnational Higher Education and the China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). More information here>>

 

 September 2018

 August 2018

  • 29th-30th August 2018 (Em)powering Mobilities: Cities/Architectures/Justices
    Conference Aalborg Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies CMUS. The 10th Year Anniversary conference at the Center for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS) take on the pertinent themes of power, empowerment, and mobilities. Wherever we face mobilities we also face questions of power, stratification, social differentiation, social exclusion, and immobilities. Deadline for abstract submission 16 April 2018.
  • 16th August 2018 EASA conference Staying, Moving, Settling in Stockholm More info here>>
    • CfP deadline 3 August 2018 Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence for Mobile Health Data Analysis and
      Processing”, Journal of Mobile Information Systems, Hindawi (Impact
      Factor: 0.958)  More info here>> 

 

July 2018

 

May 2018 

  • T2M– The Lives of Hubs Cities and Their Networks  Papers may address the conference theme, or other social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political perspectives on the history, present, and future of transport, traffic and mobility. This mobility history conference openly aims to bridge research approaches, welcoming proposals from different disciplines dealing with mobility studies (history, sociology, anthropology, geography, economy, planning studies, business history, architecture, design, communication, etc.) We particularly encourage the submission of interdisciplinary panels. • Abstracts and papers may be submitted in either English or French. • Abstract length is limited to 300 words. • Abstracts are due May 28th 2018 Your proposal may be submitted at the following site: http://t2m2018.co

February 2018

  • Social Futures Handbook Call Mobilities are critical to social futures, and we invite contributions on topics including the critical role of mobile utopia, mobilities practices, mobilities systems in shaping futures, the power of the mobilities paradigm as an analytical orientation for the study of social futures, mobilities as a methodological approach to mainstreaming or democratising the future and to ‘world’ with greater care and ethical circumspection.
  • Journal of Transport History Call Commercial Aviation History in Latin America: We are inviting scholarly contributions dealing with the basic subjects that are included in the history of commercial aviation in the region for a proposed Special Issue of the Journal of Transport History scheduled for April 2019. In existence for over 50 years, The Journal of Transport History publishes scholarly research and commentary on the history of transport, travel, tourism and mobility, and their relationships with planning and policy.

December 2017 

  • Network for Research into Chinese Education Mobilities (NRCEM) Call 800-1,200 words reports of latest research publications and projects in any area of Chinese education mobilities are shared here. Authors will provide a 200-word Chinese abstract for each report. We are currently inviting contributions of research reports. Please get in touch by emailing chineseedmobilities@outlook.com

 

Other Past Events 

23 March 2018 Mobilities Pedagogies Wilfried Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

29 October-5 November 2017 Mobile Utopia, Lancaster, UK

2-7 October 2017 USP Mobilities, Sao Paulo, Brazil

27-28 April 2017 Living Infrastructures: Beyond Global North and Global South, Volgograd, Russia