First International Conference on the
History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 November 2003
Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
AND CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The purpose of this Second Call for Papers and for Expressions of 
Interest is to remind you that the deadline for proposals (abstract and 
cv) for the first international T2M Conference in Eindhoven on 6 – 9 
November this year has been postponed until 5 June 2003.
This conference will be organised by the European Centre for Mobility 
Documentation (ECMD) at Eindhoven University of Technology. On the 
occasion of the conference and the official opening of ECMD, an 
international T2M Association will be founded and The Journal of 
Transport History will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary by presenting 
a special issue during the festivities. The conference  language 
(written and oral) is English. So, if you don’t intend to present a 
paper but wish to attend the conference, please let us know. To do so, 
please complete the application form, to be found at www.ECMD.info from 
1 June. Here, you will find information on the venue and a selection of 
hotels. Your are kindly requested to book a room in one of these hotels 
on your own account, mentioning “T2M  Conference.”

Up to our first deadline (15 April) we have received about 65 paper and 
session proposals, involving about 80 historians, social scientists, 
transport specialists and representatives from the transport museum 
world. There is room for more presentations and more attendees.
We encourage submissions on all topics of transport and mobility 
history, including the history of tourism and travel, diffusion studies, 
urban transport and intermodal and international comparisons. We are 
still short of submissions for the special sessions on transport museums 
and material culture. In the latter case we are especially interested in 
short contributions on any issue within the realm of the public history 
of transport and mobility as well as the question of outreach to a wider 
public. We are not seeking full-blown papers here, but short memo’s and 
statements (2 – 5 pages). On the basis of these contributions we intend 
to organise a debate on the relationship between academic and museum 
representatives and the potential role an international association 
could have.

Furthermore, the Eindhoven organising committee is preparing an 
interesting programme of excursions to factories, research institutes 
and museums in the southern part of the Netherlands. An exhibition on 
the history of Dutch mobility is in preparation. Also, we will have a 
celebration dinner at the Van Abbe museum, host of a world famous 
collection of El Lissitzky paintings, among others. The university 
campus is on walking distance from the railway station (1,5 hours from 
Schiphol Airport) and is easy to reach by car.

The Programme Committee will decide on the submissions for this second 
CfP by 20 June 2003. This committee consists of representatives from the 
three cooperating organisations: The TENSIONS OF EUROPE – MOBILITY 
HISTORY GROUP, the COST 340 NETWORK ‘Towards a European Intermodal 
Transport Network – Lessons from History’ and the TRANSPORT HISTORY 
GROUP OF THE GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS HISTORY, as well as the 
editor of JTH. The committee especially encourages PhD students to send 
in submissions. Please send all submissions to the Programme Committee’s 
secretary: dr. Peter Staal at [log in to unmask], who will distribute 
them among the committee members responsible for the different sessions.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Thursday 6 November
14.00:  Opening Registration Desk for the Conference
16.00:  Session 1: Official Opening Session of the ECMD
17.30:  Session 2:  Opening of the ECMD by the mayor of Eindhoven
18.00:  Reception and guided tours through the Centre

Friday 7 November
9.30:   Session 3: Plenary Opening Session of the Conference
10.30:  Break
10.45:  Sessions 4: Parallel Sessions
12.15:  Lunch
13.30:  Sessions 5: Parallel Sessions
15.30:  Coffee break and departure of buses for excursions

Saturday 8 November
9.00:   Sessions 6: Parallel Sessions
11.00:  Break
11.30:  Sessions 7: Parallel Sessions
13.00:  Lunch
14.00:  Session 8: Plenary Session
-       Foundation of the Int. Ass.for the History of Transport, Traffic and 
Mobility (T2M)
-       Presentation of 50th Anniversary Special Issue of the Journal of 
Transport History
15.00:  Break
15.15:  Sessions 9: Atelier: Constructing platforms of intellectual encounter
-    ‘Constructing a special issue of JTH’ -    ‘Constructing a Virtual 
Mobility Museum’ Followed by parallel workshops in small groups of max. 
6 persons
17.00:  Session 10: Plenary Session
-       Reports from the workshops
18.00:  Drinks reception
19.00:  Dinner at the Van Abbe museum

Sunday 9 November
9.30:   Session 11: Concluding Plenary Session
11.00:  Break
11.30:  Session 12: Concluding workshops of co-operating organisations
13.00:  End of Conference

The Programme Committee: dr.ing. Gijs Mom, Foundation for the History of 
Technology and chair ECMD, Eindhoven University of Technology, IPO 2.33, 
the Netherlands (chair): [log in to unmask]; dr. Peter-Eloy Staal, ECMD 
(secretary): [log in to unmask]; dr. Laurent Bonnaud, Centre Roland 
Mousnier, Paris-Sorbonne (COST 340): [log in to unmask]; dr. 
Hans-Liudger Dienel, Centre for Technology and Society, Technical 
University Berlin (Transport History Group, German Business History 
Association): [log in to unmask]; prof. dr. Colin Divall (National 
Railway Museum & University of York, UK) (COST 340): [log in to unmask]; 
dr. Peter Lyth, Editor, Journal of Transport History: [log in to unmask]; 
dr. Clay McShane, Northeastern University, Boston, USA (ToE-MHG): 
[log in to unmask]; dr. Michèle Merger, CNRS Institut d’histoire moderne 
et contemporaine, Paris (Chair COST 340): [log in to unmask] and 
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