*GREENWICH** MARITIME INSTITUTE*

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*A CONFERENCE *

*On*

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*‘GENDER, EMOTION, WORK AND TRAVEL:*

*WOMEN TRANSPORT WORKERS AND PASSENGERS*

* PAST AND PRESENT’*

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*Friday and Saturday*

*22 and 23 June 2007 *

*At *

*Greenwich** Maritime Institute (GMI)*

*University** of Greenwich, London*

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*Papers are welcome on any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals, no 
more than 250 words in length, should be submitted by 11 December 2006. 
Postgraduate attendance and participation is particularly welcome.*

All enquiries concerning the academic aspects of the conference should 
be directed to either Minghua Zhao, Greenwich Maritime Institute, 
University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 
9LS; [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Maggie 
Walsh, School of American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, 
Nottingham NG7 2RD; [log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. All other enquiries should be 
directed to Suzanne Bowles, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of 
Greenwich; [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

The cost of registration (including refreshments and conference 
proceedings) will be modest (approx. £75.00) and the Conference 
Organisers hope that some funding will be available to support 
postgraduate attendance.

*Rationale:*

The purpose of this conference is to examine research on the theme, 
‘gender, emotion, work and travel, women transport workers and 
passengers, past and present’, from different modal, disciplinary and 
national perspectives and to stimulate dialogue on comparative themes 
that will illuminate gendered patterns in the lives of women. By 
initiating a gendered and emotional dimension to the discussion of 
travel and work, new ideas and approaches have the capacity to alter the 
face of both history and contemporary aspects of transport studies. In 
other words the marriage of travel, mobility, work and gender analysis 
can bear scholarly fruit by making profitable connections.

As academics and practitioners have already demonstrated, concerns of 
culture, class, gender and race are not only important to new 
perspectives on social and economic history, but they also have major 
significance for new developments in sociology, geography, anthropology, 
planning and urban studies. These concerns have directly and indirectly 
influenced the production and consumption of travel at both the 
corporate and individual level. Women’s transport and travel history and 
the study of the gender dimensions of contemporary mobility are 
relatively new fields, with the first major publications emerging in the 
1990s. As yet this scholarship has been situated in different modes of 
travel and frequently within specific national contexts. These 
narratives are at different stages of development and very little 
comparative or cross-cultural research has been done. Further 
theoretical approaches that link gender with concepts and models from 
business, history and the social and cultural sciences in different 
national contexts are needed. For example, research that already exists 
suggest that women’s entrepreneurship and participation as workers in 
the service sector economy complicates the study of transport and travel 
which has only recently and partially moved from production to 
consumption. There are many opportunities for bringing together diverse 
avenues of research and this conference will stimulate new ideas and 
perspectives.

*Decisions on paper proposals *will be communicated by late January 
2007. Information about postgraduate funding will be available in 
December 2006. Accommodation will be arranged by conference delegates. 
Greenwich Maritime Institute will supply a list of hotels and bed & 
breakfast places in Greenwich and nearby locations and delegates will be 
expected to make their own arrangements with the accommodation of their 
choice. For those who wish to share accommodation in order to reduce 
costs, Suzanne Bowles (GMI) will hold a list of potential room sharers, 
but delegates MUST arrange and be responsible for any such room share. 
Neither the conference organisers nor GMI will make these arrangements.

MW

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