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Dear all,
We hope this email finds you well. The deadline for abstract submissions
for the 2022 GMHC has been extended to *31**st** May*, 2022.
Attached please find the CFP and the Application Forms for 2022 GMHC.
Best Regards,
2022 GMHC Organizing Committee
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(**Extended Deadline)
Call for Papers
*2022 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC)*
Organized by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University), the
Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities, DiSSGeA (University
of Padua), and the Centre for the GeoHumanities (Royal Holloway University
of London)
*=E2=80=9CMobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities=E2=80=9C*
*Seoul, **28th =E2=80=93 29th October 2022*
*Call for panels and papers:*
From its earliest days, mobility studies has been intensely concerned with
=E2=80=9Cthe infrastructure of social life,=E2=80=9D (Urry 2017, 13). Mobil=
ity might be
seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social while it is undergirded by
infrastructures of systems that enable and disable mobilities. Notably,
with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility infrastructure came to
be recognized as indispensable for human life itself, while brutely
materializing its geographical inequality and acutely strengthening racial,
sexual, and class discrimination and their intersections. But which
infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and
information; that makes possible not only the socialities of everyday life
but the circulation of power and wealth, especially as they have
undergirded the formations and afterlives of empire and settler-colonialism
(Cowen 2020)? For example, logistics, roads, railways, ports, sea routes,
transportation networks, pipelines, and the like have been taken into
consideration by many researchers in the mobility studies field. So too
have internet servers, mail and postage systems, under-sea cables, charging
points, bike docking stations, as well as churches, cafes and corner-shops,
bodies and practices as =E2=80=98arrival=E2=80=99 infrastructures for mobil=
e subjects (Jung
and Buhr 2021; Meues et al. 2019). What, then, might count as a mobility
infrastructure?
Many narratives of infrastructure, and indeed mobility, suggest their
invisibility . Where it is only in their breakdown that we are forced to
see the usually sunk or hidden qualities of infrastructures beneath our
feet. Studies of infrastructure often involve staying with, following, and
especially maneuvers of looking beneath and (un)concealment (Hetherington
2019). Sometimes these seek to reveal the political and power relations
infrastructures perform and reproduce, and the (often mobile) lives and
livelihoods that service and labour the infrastructures we depend upon.
Might we foreground mobility infrastructures, then, if (in)visible and
unthought, =E2=80=98deep=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98under=E2=80=99, in the way th=
ey are unearthed by the
(im)mobile practices of research that elicit, know, reveal, uncloak,
surface, dig, spotlight, or perhaps write, draw, envision, revision, among
other modalities of looking, sensing, writing and creative expression?
The 2022 GMHC is to be a platform to discuss mobility infrastructures in
its technologies, geographies, histories, cultures, as well as its social
being, ethics, justice, and affects from the mobility humanities
perspective. Indeed, as the humanities are challenged not only by COVID,
but structural changes in academia and its funding in many contexts, the
conference might reflect upon what new infrastructures and (im)mobilities
are possible and necessary in the Humanities? Given the emphasis on
(virtual) labs, digital platforms, networks and emerging practices to share
and collaborate and engage publics in new spaces (Eccles 2021), what might
mobility infrastructures offer for a Humanities under threat?
This conference presents an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas
and inquiries at the intersection of mobilities studies and humanities,
transcending the sometimes conventional divide between the social sciences
and humanities and the arts. The conference theme, =E2=80=9CMobility,
Infrastructure, and the Humanities,=E2=80=9D enables scholars to engage wit=
h the
mobility humanities from different academic disciplines. With the advent of
a =E2=80=98high-mobility=E2=80=99 (Viry and Kauffmann 2015) society, infras=
tructures come
to have more far-reaching power, but are perhaps even more taken for
granted. Wary of the dangers that they are assumed as universal and taken
as ungrounded or uncritically, we encourage studies that contemplate
geographic variation, difference and specificity of context across
different global regions, national contexts, locations and places.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
1. Philosophies of Mobility Infrastructures
2. Infrastructural Reading of Literary and Cultural Texts
3. Infrastructures of Knowledge Circulation and the Mobility of Things
4. Visibilities and Invisibilities of Mobility Infrastructures
5. Bodies, Practices and Social Infrastructures
6. Creative Responses and Approaches to Mobility
Infrastructure/Creative Practices as Mobility Infrastructure
7. =E2=80=98Coming Community=E2=80=99 and Mobility Infrastructure Ethi=
cs
8. Mobility Infrastructure Justice
9. ((Post)Colonial) Histories of infrastructures
10. Emotions and Affects of Mobility Infrastructure
11. Cultural infrastructures from antiquity to the future
12. Failing or fracturing mobility infrastructures
13. Other Related Issues
We welcome submissions of individual papers and panels for this conference.
*How to submit your paper/panel proposal:*
For panels supposed to be composed of more than four presenters, a 200-word
outline of the theme of the whole panel, together with 200-word abstracts
of each paper and the details of each presenter and (if any) the
co-authors, should be submitted via email to the Organizing Committee of
2022 GMHC by *3**1st** May* 2022: GMHC2022@gmail.com
For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, together with the
details of the presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted
to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by *3**1st** May *2022:
GMHC2022@gmail.com
All panel and paper submissions must be in English. Submissions in
languages other than English will not be considered.
*Key dates:*
All submissions must be sent by email by *3**1st** May** 2022* and will
receive an acknowledgement. Any submission received after the deadline will
not normally be considered for presentation.
All panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed by two members of
the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC. We will contact you at the end of
*June** 2022* to inform you as to whether your panel/paper has been
accepted.
Please note that, by being accepted to this conference, your abstract will
be automatically considered to be included in the GMHC=E2=80=99s conference
proceeding in due course. Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022
GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inqui=
ry=E2=80=9D if
you have any questions and concerns.
*Registration fee:*
Online registration runs from *July 2022.* Information on registration will
be made available on the conference website which will go live on *April
2022.*
An early-bird discount by registering before *1st August 2022.* The
early-bird fee is *US$ 150.* After that date, the registration fee is *US$
200.*
A student discount: The early-bird fee (registration before *1st August
2022*) is *US$ 100.* After that date, the registration fee is *US$ 150.*
Registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials,
coffee/tea breaks, and a farewell dinner reception.
Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com)
with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you have an=
y questions and
concerns.
2022 GMHC Organizing Committee
https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/
--=20
*Jin Suk BAE*, Ph.D.
HK Research Professor, Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk Univ.
E-mail: bae.jinsuk@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bigblue202
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jin-Suk-Bae-2/research
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ll.=C2=A0The deadline =
for abstract submissions for the 2022=C2=A0GMHC has been extended to=C2=A031st=C2=A0May, 2022.=C2=A0Attached please find the C=
FP and the Application Forms for 2022 GMHC.=C2=A0Best Regards,=C2=A02022 GMHC Organi=
zing Committee=C2=A0------------------------------------------------=
--------------------------------------------(**Extended Deadline)Call for Papers
2022 Global Mobility Humanities
Conference (GMHC)
Organized by the Academy of Mobility =
Humanities
(Konkuk University), the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Huma=
nities,
DiSSGeA (University of Padua), and the Centre for the GeoHumanities (Royal
Holloway University of London)
=C2=A0
=E2=80=9CMobility,
Infrastructure, and the Humanities=E2=80=9C
Seoul,
28th
=E2=80=93 29th October 2022
=C2=A0
Call for panels and papers:
From its earlies=
t days, mobility studies has
been intensely concerned with =E2=80=9Cthe infrastructure of social life,=
=E2=80=9D (Urry 2017,
13). Mobility might be seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social whil=
e it
is undergirded by infrastructures of systems that enable and disable
mobilities. Notably, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility
infrastructure came to be recognized as indispensable for human life itself=
,
while brutely materializing its geographical inequality and acutely
strengthening racial, sexual, and class discrimination and their intersecti=
ons.
But which infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and
information; that makes possible not only the socialities of everyday life =
but
the circulation of power and wealth, especially as they have undergirded th=
e
formations and afterlives of empire and settler-colonialism (Cowen 2020)? F=
or
example, logistics, roads, railways, ports, sea routes, transportation
networks, pipelines, and the like have been taken into consideration by man=
y
researchers in the mobility studies field. So too have internet servers, ma=
il
and postage systems, under-sea cables, charging points, bike docking statio=
ns,
as well as churches, cafes and corner-shops, bodies and practices as =E2=80=
=98arrival=E2=80=99
infrastructures for mobile subjects (Jung and Buhr 2021; Meues et al. 2019)=
.
What, then, might count as a mobility infrastructure?
Many narratives =
of infrastructure, and indeed
mobility, suggest their invisibility . Where it is only in their breakdown =
that
we are forced to see the usually sunk or hidden qualities of infrastructure=
s
beneath our feet. Studies of infrastructure often involve staying with,
following, and especially maneuvers of looking beneath and (un)concealment
(Hetherington 2019). Sometimes these seek to reveal the political and power
relations infrastructures perform and reproduce, and the (often mobile) liv=
es
and livelihoods that service and labour the infrastructures we depend upon.
Might we foreground mobility infrastructures, then, if (in)visible and
unthought, =E2=80=98deep=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98under=E2=80=99, in the way th=
ey are unearthed by the (im)mobile
practices of research that elicit, know, reveal, uncloak, surface, dig,
spotlight, or perhaps write, draw, envision, revision, among other modaliti=
es
of looking, sensing, writing and creative expression?
The 2022 GMHC is=
to be a platform to discuss
mobility infrastructures in its technologies, geographies, histories, cultu=
res,
as well as its social being, ethics, justice, and affects from the mobility
humanities perspective. Indeed, as the humanities are challenged not only b=
y
COVID, but structural changes in academia and its funding in many contexts,=
the
conference might reflect upon what new infrastructures and (im)mobilities a=
re
possible and necessary in the Humanities? Given the emphasis on (virtual) l=
abs,
digital platforms, networks and emerging practices to share and collaborate=
and
engage publics in new spaces (Eccles 2021), what might mobility infrastruct=
ures
offer for a Humanities under threat?
This conference =
presents an opportunity for
scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of mobiliti=
es
studies and humanities, transcending the sometimes conventional divide betw=
een
the social sciences and humanities and the arts. The conference theme,
=E2=80=9CMobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities,=E2=80=9D enables sch=
olars to engage with
the mobility humanities from different academic disciplines. With the adven=
t of
a =E2=80=98high-mobility=E2=80=99 (Viry and Kauffmann 2015) society, infras=
tructures come to have
more far-reaching power, but are perhaps even more taken for granted. Wary =
of
the dangers that they are assumed as universal and taken as ungrounded or
uncritically, we encourage studies that contemplate geographic variation,
difference and specificity of context across different global regions, nati=
onal
contexts, locations and places.
Topics may inclu=
de but are not limited to:
1.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Philosophies of Mobility Infrastructures
2.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Infrastructural Reading of Literary and
Cultural Texts
3.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Infrastructures of Knowledge Circulation and
the Mobility of Things
4.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Visibilities and Invisibilities of Mobility
Infrastructures
5.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Bodies, Practices and Social Infrastructures
6.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Creative Responses and Approaches to Mobility
Infrastructure/Creative Practices as Mobility Infrastruct=
ure
7.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =E2=80=98Coming Community=E2=80=99 and Mobility Infra=
structure
Ethics
8.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Mobility Infrastructure Justice
9.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 ((Post)Colonial) Histories of infrastructures
10.=C2=A0 E=
motions and Affects of Mobility
Infrastructure
11.=C2=A0 C=
ultural infrastructures from antiquity to the
future
12.=C2=A0 F=
ailing or fracturing mobility infrastructures
13.=C2=A0 =
=C2=A0Other
Related Issues
We welcome submi=
ssions of individual papers
and panels for this conference.
How to submit your paper/panel
proposal:
For
panels supposed to be composed of more than four presenters, a 200-word out=
line
of the theme of the whole panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each p=
aper
and the details of each presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be
submitted via email to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by=C2=A031st=
=C2=A0May 2022: =
GMHC2022@gmail.com
For
individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, together with the deta=
ils
of the presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted to the
Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by=C2=A031st=C2=A0May=C2=A02022: GMHC2022@gmail.com
All
panel and paper submissions must be in English. Submissions in languages ot=
her
than English will not be considered.
Key dates:
All
submissions must be sent by email by=C2=A031st=C2=A0May=C2=A02022 and will receive an acknowledgement. Any submission re=
ceived
after the deadline will not normally be considered for presentation.=
=
All
panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed by two members of the
Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC. We will contact you at the end of June=
=C2=A02022 to inform you as to whether
your panel/paper has been accepted.
Please
note that, by being accepted to this conference, your abstract will be
automatically considered to be included in the GMHC=E2=80=99s conference pr=
oceeding in
due course. Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC
(GMHC2022@gmail.com=
) with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you h=
ave
any questions and concerns.
Registration fee:
Online
registration runs from July 2022.
Information on registration will be made available on the conference websit=
e
which will go live on April 2022.
An
early-bird discount by registering before 1st
August 2022. The early-bird fee is US$
150. =C2=A0After that date, the
registration fee is US$ 200.
=
A
student discount: The early-bird fee (registration before 1st=
August 2022) is US$
100. After that date, the registration fee is US$ 150.
=
Registration
fee will cover the costs for the conference materials, coffee/tea breaks, a=
nd a
farewell dinner reception.
=
Please
email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the
subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you have any questio=
ns and concerns.2022 GMHC Organizing=
Committee=C2=A0https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/=C2=A0=
=
-- Jin Suk
BAE, Ph.D.
HK Research Profes=
sor,=C2=A0Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk
Univ.
E-mail:=
=C2=A0bae.jinsuk@=
gmail.com=C2=A0
Facebook:=C2=A0https://www.facebook.com/=
bigblue202ResearchGate: https=
://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jin-Suk-Bae-2/research
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Dear all,
We hope this email finds you well. The deadline for abstract submissions
for the 2022 GMHC has been extended to *31**st** May*, 2022.
Attached please find the CFP and the Application Forms for 2022 GMHC.
Best Regards,
2022 GMHC Organizing Committee
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(**Extended Deadline)
Call for Papers
*2022 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC)*
Organized by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University), the
Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities, DiSSGeA (University
of Padua), and the Centre for the GeoHumanities (Royal Holloway University
of London)
*=E2=80=9CMobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities=E2=80=9C*
*Seoul, **28th =E2=80=93 29th October 2022*
*Call for panels and papers:*
From its earliest days, mobility studies has been intensely concerned with
=E2=80=9Cthe infrastructure of social life,=E2=80=9D (Urry 2017, 13). Mobil=
ity might be
seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social while it is undergirded by
infrastructures of systems that enable and disable mobilities. Notably,
with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility infrastructure came to
be recognized as indispensable for human life itself, while brutely
materializing its geographical inequality and acutely strengthening racial,
sexual, and class discrimination and their intersections. But which
infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and
information; that makes possible not only the socialities of everyday life
but the circulation of power and wealth, especially as they have
undergirded the formations and afterlives of empire and settler-colonialism
(Cowen 2020)? For example, logistics, roads, railways, ports, sea routes,
transportation networks, pipelines, and the like have been taken into
consideration by many researchers in the mobility studies field. So too
have internet servers, mail and postage systems, under-sea cables, charging
points, bike docking stations, as well as churches, cafes and corner-shops,
bodies and practices as =E2=80=98arrival=E2=80=99 infrastructures for mobil=
e subjects (Jung
and Buhr 2021; Meues et al. 2019). What, then, might count as a mobility
infrastructure?
Many narratives of infrastructure, and indeed mobility, suggest their
invisibility . Where it is only in their breakdown that we are forced to
see the usually sunk or hidden qualities of infrastructures beneath our
feet. Studies of infrastructure often involve staying with, following, and
especially maneuvers of looking beneath and (un)concealment (Hetherington
2019). Sometimes these seek to reveal the political and power relations
infrastructures perform and reproduce, and the (often mobile) lives and
livelihoods that service and labour the infrastructures we depend upon.
Might we foreground mobility infrastructures, then, if (in)visible and
unthought, =E2=80=98deep=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98under=E2=80=99, in the way th=
ey are unearthed by the
(im)mobile practices of research that elicit, know, reveal, uncloak,
surface, dig, spotlight, or perhaps write, draw, envision, revision, among
other modalities of looking, sensing, writing and creative expression?
The 2022 GMHC is to be a platform to discuss mobility infrastructures in
its technologies, geographies, histories, cultures, as well as its social
being, ethics, justice, and affects from the mobility humanities
perspective. Indeed, as the humanities are challenged not only by COVID,
but structural changes in academia and its funding in many contexts, the
conference might reflect upon what new infrastructures and (im)mobilities
are possible and necessary in the Humanities? Given the emphasis on
(virtual) labs, digital platforms, networks and emerging practices to share
and collaborate and engage publics in new spaces (Eccles 2021), what might
mobility infrastructures offer for a Humanities under threat?
This conference presents an opportunity for scholars to share their ideas
and inquiries at the intersection of mobilities studies and humanities,
transcending the sometimes conventional divide between the social sciences
and humanities and the arts. The conference theme, =E2=80=9CMobility,
Infrastructure, and the Humanities,=E2=80=9D enables scholars to engage wit=
h the
mobility humanities from different academic disciplines. With the advent of
a =E2=80=98high-mobility=E2=80=99 (Viry and Kauffmann 2015) society, infras=
tructures come
to have more far-reaching power, but are perhaps even more taken for
granted. Wary of the dangers that they are assumed as universal and taken
as ungrounded or uncritically, we encourage studies that contemplate
geographic variation, difference and specificity of context across
different global regions, national contexts, locations and places.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
1. Philosophies of Mobility Infrastructures
2. Infrastructural Reading of Literary and Cultural Texts
3. Infrastructures of Knowledge Circulation and the Mobility of Things
4. Visibilities and Invisibilities of Mobility Infrastructures
5. Bodies, Practices and Social Infrastructures
6. Creative Responses and Approaches to Mobility
Infrastructure/Creative Practices as Mobility Infrastructure
7. =E2=80=98Coming Community=E2=80=99 and Mobility Infrastructure Ethi=
cs
8. Mobility Infrastructure Justice
9. ((Post)Colonial) Histories of infrastructures
10. Emotions and Affects of Mobility Infrastructure
11. Cultural infrastructures from antiquity to the future
12. Failing or fracturing mobility infrastructures
13. Other Related Issues
We welcome submissions of individual papers and panels for this conference.
*How to submit your paper/panel proposal:*
For panels supposed to be composed of more than four presenters, a 200-word
outline of the theme of the whole panel, together with 200-word abstracts
of each paper and the details of each presenter and (if any) the
co-authors, should be submitted via email to the Organizing Committee of
2022 GMHC by *3**1st** May* 2022: GMHC2022@gmail.com
For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, together with the
details of the presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted
to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by *3**1st** May *2022:
GMHC2022@gmail.com
All panel and paper submissions must be in English. Submissions in
languages other than English will not be considered.
*Key dates:*
All submissions must be sent by email by *3**1st** May** 2022* and will
receive an acknowledgement. Any submission received after the deadline will
not normally be considered for presentation.
All panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed by two members of
the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC. We will contact you at the end of
*June** 2022* to inform you as to whether your panel/paper has been
accepted.
Please note that, by being accepted to this conference, your abstract will
be automatically considered to be included in the GMHC=E2=80=99s conference
proceeding in due course. Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022
GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inqui=
ry=E2=80=9D if
you have any questions and concerns.
*Registration fee:*
Online registration runs from *July 2022.* Information on registration will
be made available on the conference website which will go live on *April
2022.*
An early-bird discount by registering before *1st August 2022.* The
early-bird fee is *US$ 150.* After that date, the registration fee is *US$
200.*
A student discount: The early-bird fee (registration before *1st August
2022*) is *US$ 100.* After that date, the registration fee is *US$ 150.*
Registration fee will cover the costs for the conference materials,
coffee/tea breaks, and a farewell dinner reception.
Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com)
with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you have an=
y questions and
concerns.
2022 GMHC Organizing Committee
https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/
--=20
*Jin Suk BAE*, Ph.D.
HK Research Professor, Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk Univ.
E-mail: bae.jinsuk@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bigblue202
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jin-Suk-Bae-2/research
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Dear all,=C2=A0We hope this email finds you we=
ll.=C2=A0The deadline =
for abstract submissions for the 2022=C2=A0GMHC has been extended to=C2=A031st=C2=A0May, 2022.=C2=A0Attached please find the C=
FP and the Application Forms for 2022 GMHC.=C2=A0Best Regards,=C2=A02022 GMHC Organi=
zing Committee=C2=A0------------------------------------------------=
--------------------------------------------(**Extended Deadline)Call for Papers
2022 Global Mobility Humanities
Conference (GMHC)
Organized by the Academy of Mobility =
Humanities
(Konkuk University), the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Huma=
nities,
DiSSGeA (University of Padua), and the Centre for the GeoHumanities (Royal
Holloway University of London)
=C2=A0
=E2=80=9CMobility,
Infrastructure, and the Humanities=E2=80=9C
Seoul,
28th
=E2=80=93 29th October 2022
=C2=A0
Call for panels and papers:
From its earlies=
t days, mobility studies has
been intensely concerned with =E2=80=9Cthe infrastructure of social life,=
=E2=80=9D (Urry 2017,
13). Mobility might be seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social whil=
e it
is undergirded by infrastructures of systems that enable and disable
mobilities. Notably, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility
infrastructure came to be recognized as indispensable for human life itself=
,
while brutely materializing its geographical inequality and acutely
strengthening racial, sexual, and class discrimination and their intersecti=
ons.
But which infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and
information; that makes possible not only the socialities of everyday life =
but
the circulation of power and wealth, especially as they have undergirded th=
e
formations and afterlives of empire and settler-colonialism (Cowen 2020)? F=
or
example, logistics, roads, railways, ports, sea routes, transportation
networks, pipelines, and the like have been taken into consideration by man=
y
researchers in the mobility studies field. So too have internet servers, ma=
il
and postage systems, under-sea cables, charging points, bike docking statio=
ns,
as well as churches, cafes and corner-shops, bodies and practices as =E2=80=
=98arrival=E2=80=99
infrastructures for mobile subjects (Jung and Buhr 2021; Meues et al. 2019)=
.
What, then, might count as a mobility infrastructure?
Many narratives =
of infrastructure, and indeed
mobility, suggest their invisibility . Where it is only in their breakdown =
that
we are forced to see the usually sunk or hidden qualities of infrastructure=
s
beneath our feet. Studies of infrastructure often involve staying with,
following, and especially maneuvers of looking beneath and (un)concealment
(Hetherington 2019). Sometimes these seek to reveal the political and power
relations infrastructures perform and reproduce, and the (often mobile) liv=
es
and livelihoods that service and labour the infrastructures we depend upon.
Might we foreground mobility infrastructures, then, if (in)visible and
unthought, =E2=80=98deep=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98under=E2=80=99, in the way th=
ey are unearthed by the (im)mobile
practices of research that elicit, know, reveal, uncloak, surface, dig,
spotlight, or perhaps write, draw, envision, revision, among other modaliti=
es
of looking, sensing, writing and creative expression?
The 2022 GMHC is=
to be a platform to discuss
mobility infrastructures in its technologies, geographies, histories, cultu=
res,
as well as its social being, ethics, justice, and affects from the mobility
humanities perspective. Indeed, as the humanities are challenged not only b=
y
COVID, but structural changes in academia and its funding in many contexts,=
the
conference might reflect upon what new infrastructures and (im)mobilities a=
re
possible and necessary in the Humanities? Given the emphasis on (virtual) l=
abs,
digital platforms, networks and emerging practices to share and collaborate=
and
engage publics in new spaces (Eccles 2021), what might mobility infrastruct=
ures
offer for a Humanities under threat?
This conference =
presents an opportunity for
scholars to share their ideas and inquiries at the intersection of mobiliti=
es
studies and humanities, transcending the sometimes conventional divide betw=
een
the social sciences and humanities and the arts. The conference theme,
=E2=80=9CMobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities,=E2=80=9D enables sch=
olars to engage with
the mobility humanities from different academic disciplines. With the adven=
t of
a =E2=80=98high-mobility=E2=80=99 (Viry and Kauffmann 2015) society, infras=
tructures come to have
more far-reaching power, but are perhaps even more taken for granted. Wary =
of
the dangers that they are assumed as universal and taken as ungrounded or
uncritically, we encourage studies that contemplate geographic variation,
difference and specificity of context across different global regions, nati=
onal
contexts, locations and places.
Topics may inclu=
de but are not limited to:
1.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Philosophies of Mobility Infrastructures
2.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Infrastructural Reading of Literary and
Cultural Texts
3.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Infrastructures of Knowledge Circulation and
the Mobility of Things
4.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Visibilities and Invisibilities of Mobility
Infrastructures
5.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Bodies, Practices and Social Infrastructures
6.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Creative Responses and Approaches to Mobility
Infrastructure/Creative Practices as Mobility Infrastruct=
ure
7.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =E2=80=98Coming Community=E2=80=99 and Mobility Infra=
structure
Ethics
8.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Mobility Infrastructure Justice
9.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 ((Post)Colonial) Histories of infrastructures
10.=C2=A0 E=
motions and Affects of Mobility
Infrastructure
11.=C2=A0 C=
ultural infrastructures from antiquity to the
future
12.=C2=A0 F=
ailing or fracturing mobility infrastructures
13.=C2=A0 =
=C2=A0Other
Related Issues
We welcome submi=
ssions of individual papers
and panels for this conference.
How to submit your paper/panel
proposal:
For
panels supposed to be composed of more than four presenters, a 200-word out=
line
of the theme of the whole panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each p=
aper
and the details of each presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be
submitted via email to the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by=C2=A031st=
=C2=A0May 2022: =
GMHC2022@gmail.com
For
individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, together with the deta=
ils
of the presenter and (if any) the co-authors, should be submitted to the
Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC by=C2=A031st=C2=A0May=C2=A02022: GMHC2022@gmail.com
All
panel and paper submissions must be in English. Submissions in languages ot=
her
than English will not be considered.
Key dates:
All
submissions must be sent by email by=C2=A031st=C2=A0May=C2=A02022 and will receive an acknowledgement. Any submission re=
ceived
after the deadline will not normally be considered for presentation.=
=
All
panel and individual paper proposals will be reviewed by two members of the
Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC. We will contact you at the end of June=
=C2=A02022 to inform you as to whether
your panel/paper has been accepted.
Please
note that, by being accepted to this conference, your abstract will be
automatically considered to be included in the GMHC=E2=80=99s conference pr=
oceeding in
due course. Please email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC
(GMHC2022@gmail.com=
) with the subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you h=
ave
any questions and concerns.
Registration fee:
Online
registration runs from July 2022.
Information on registration will be made available on the conference websit=
e
which will go live on April 2022.
An
early-bird discount by registering before 1st
August 2022. The early-bird fee is US$
150. =C2=A0After that date, the
registration fee is US$ 200.
=
A
student discount: The early-bird fee (registration before 1st=
August 2022) is US$
100. After that date, the registration fee is US$ 150.
=
Registration
fee will cover the costs for the conference materials, coffee/tea breaks, a=
nd a
farewell dinner reception.
=
Please
email the Organizing Committee of 2022 GMHC (GMHC2022@gmail.com) with the
subject heading =E2=80=9C2022 GMHC Inquiry=E2=80=9D if you have any questio=
ns and concerns.2022 GMHC Organizing=
Committee=C2=A0https://www.mobilityhumanities.net/=C2=A0=
=
-- Jin Suk
BAE, Ph.D.
HK Research Profes=
sor,=C2=A0Academy of Mobility Humanities, Konkuk
Univ.
E-mail:=
=C2=A0bae.jinsuk@=
gmail.com=C2=A0
Facebook:=C2=A0https://www.facebook.com/=
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://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jin-Suk-Bae-2/research
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