Welcome, followed by Keynote Address:

Virginia Scharff, Professor of History and Director, Center for the South West, University of New Mexico, 'Home Lands: How Women's Movements Made the West'

Plenary session: Big pictures of sociability, spaces and mobility

Arnaud Passalacqua, 'Impedimenta, or a reflexion on the self-impediment process of mobility development'

Kerstin Svennsson and Birgitta Svensson, 'Constructing vehicles and identities in prison transport regimes'

Barbara Schmucki, '"If I walked on my own at night I stuck to well lit areas": engendering the history of mobility in 20th-century British cities.'

Alexis Litvine, 'A critique of "space reductionism" in mobility studies: the case of European railway workers'

Strand 1: Automobilities in 20th-century Britain

Craig Horner, 'Automobility, leisure and the public highway: the experience of the United Kingdom to 1914'

Peter Merriman, 'Motorway modern: consuming the spaces of the M1 in late 1950s and 1960s Britain'

James Owen, 'National identity and cultural representations of travel in post-war Britain'

Strand 2: Urban mobilities

Ulrike Krampl, 'The languages of popular urban hospitality during the 17th and 18th centuries'

David Peleman, 'The idea of progress and the search for an "authentic" streetlife'

Stefan Hohne, 'The inventory of the passenger: artefacts and body techniques in urban infrastructures of transit'

Strand 3: Religious mobilities

Emily Price, 'Otherness and Englishness in late medieval pilgrimage guides'

Emily Manktelow, 'Missionaries, home, and the negotiation of belonging: social orientation in the missionary enterprise'

Jennifer Sime, 'Moving towards Santiago: reverie on the road and rails'

Strand 1: Democratizing mobility

Susan Major, 'The Million go forth: experiences of early railway excursions'

Greet de Block, 'To a democratisation of space: the light railway network in Belgium'

Hiroki Shin, 'Running the cheap trains: conceptualising the business of mass mobility in England, 1872-1914'

Strand 2: Visions of urban mobilities

Carlos Lopez Galviz, 'Modern metropolises: London, Paris and the city railway'

Dhan Zunino Singh, 'City of tomorrow: the ideas and images on Buenos Aires in the future through the "space of circulation", ca. 1880-1910'

Daryl Martin, 'From Saltaire to Ikea: the edge city in its prototypical and ubiquitous form'

Strand 1: Political mobilities

Janette Martin, '"Peddling Ideas": itinerant lecturing and political mobilisation in Yorkshire and the North East in the Chartist era'

Karen Hunt, 'A mobile revolutionary: Dora Montefiore, travel and the formation of a political identity, 1880-1920'

Strand 2: Racialized mobilities

Sally McKee, 'Two migrants of color caught in the transatlantic networks of mid-19th century'

Gordon Pirie, 'Compartments and corridors: racialised spaces, mobility and sociability in South Africa'

Strand 3: Tourist mobilities

Kevin James, 'Mobility systems, tourist practices and the Killarney Tour, 1850-1914'

Adelina Oana Stefan, 'Automobiles and the building of identity in Socialist Romania during the 1970s and 1980s'

Conference Dinner

Strand 1: In/exclusive automobilities

Lipokmar Dzuvichu, 'A social history of the motor car along the Assam-Burma frontier of British India'

Stefan Bauernschmidt, 'Ford in Germany during the Weimar period: "American Threat": from "Auto intoxication" to "Inequalities of mobility"'

Maggie Walsh, 'Gendering American automobility: the post-war emergence of equal female access to cars in the United States'

Strand 2: Mobile literatures

Constantin Canavas, 'Introducing mobility into the symbolic order of knowledge transmission: mediaeval Muslim travellers and the various Arabic genres of journey-related literature'

Nobuko Toyosawa, 'A culture of movement in 17th century Japan: challenging the civilizational centre through spatial writings'

Valters Scerbinskis, 'Creating images of the North: Reports by travellers in the Latvian newspapers of tsarist Russia’s era and interwar period on Scandinavia and Finland'

Strand 1: Colonizing mobilities

Nitin Sinha, 'Making India picturesque: journeying on the Ganga and the limits of travelling gaze, 1750s-1850s'

Jefrrey Kaja, 'Transport systems and the social ordering of colonial Pennsylvania'

Erich DeWald, 'Circulating around Vietnam by bicycle, 1918-1954'

Strand 2: Maritime and aerial mobilities

Tamson Pietsch, 'The steamship as a space of empire: the journey from Britain to Australia, 1869-1914'

Birgitte Braasch, 'Changing communities of the North Atlantic: ships and planes as social spaces'

Heidi Seetzen, '"This river used to be so full of life…": mobile histories of the Thames'

Strand 1: Russian Mobilities

Alexandra Bekasova, 'Russian macadam roads before the railroad age: transportation of passengers and the creation of road infrastructure'

Marina Loskutova, 'Provincial scholars, the traffic of knowledge and the patterns of sociability in the late imperial-early Soviet Russia, 1890s-1920s'

Strand 2: Transnational mobilities

Marisa Costa, 'Cultural histories of foreign mobility in medieval Portugal'

Ludivine Broch, 'The forced deportation of the Jews: the case of the French railways'

Thomas Brisson, '"Immobile migration": Arab intellectuals in Paris'

Plenary session: Conference summary and open discussion

Colin Divall

George Revill

Virginia Scharff

Conference participants