*MOBILITY HISTORY, HERITAGE AND DESIGN*
*Call for Papers for the*
*Fifth Annual (Jubilee) Conference on the*
*History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M**)*
*to be held in*
*HELMOND, THE NETHERLANDS*
*25 – 28 October 2007*
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This is a first Call for Papers for the fifth international T2M
conference, with the theme 'Heritage and Design,' to be held in Helmond
(near Eindhoven), in the Netherlands. After our successful conference in
Paris this year (with 175 attendants), individual paper and entire
session proposals are now invited, either on the conference theme, or on
any other topic from the broad domain of transport and mobility history.
Both 'Design' and 'Heritage' direct our attention to the artefact and
its context of production, use and re-use, in the latter case either as
a museum exhibit or as an object of leisure consumption by 'amateurs.'
However looked upon, recent scholarship in both Design History and
Public History has pushed the 'user' or 'mobility consumer' into the
centre of our analysis. Whereas the former studies the interaction
between producers and consumers, the latter develops concepts of
presenting transport and mobility as a lens to our current joys and
chagrins in an increasingly 'liquid world' (Baumann). Submissions are
invited, not only on what engineers know and how they know it
(Vincenti), but also on the 'doings and sayings' (Schatzki) of the user
and consumer. Recently, especially national and transnational (European)
governments discovered the importance of making mobility history a part
of cultural heritage. This conference, therefore, provides a platform
for historians of technology, museum curators and design historians to
join the debate about the cultural and material turn in mobility
history, nurtured by T2M since its foundation. Because T2M wishes to
provide a meeting space for all transport and mobility historians,
proposals not directly related to the conference's main theme are
welcome, as well.
Participants are encouraged, though not required, to organize panels
either on the conference theme or on any other topic from the broad
domain of transport and mobility history. A panel consists of a chair
and normally up to three speakers and a commentator.
The deadline for abstracts and a short cv (English only) is *31 March
2007*: maximum one page for individual papers or one page per
presentation within a session proposal, including a CV per person of
max. 1 page as well. Session proposals should be accompanied by a
separate one-page overview of the session, including chair and
commentator and their CV's. Please send proposals to:
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Submitters will be notified by *30 April 2007* whether their proposal
has been accepted by the Programme Committee, and will then be requested
to send in a full paper by *1 September 2007* at the latest. A CD-ROM
will be sent beforehand to all participants so as to facilitate only
short presentations with an emphasis on debate and discussion.
Registration deadlines will be provided during the month of April 2007.
At that time the registration fee will be known (and will not be higher
than € 120 for non-members of the association).
The conference will coincide with the internationally-renowned Dutch
Design Week in nearby Eindhoven (with 60,000 visitors expected). The
city of Helmond, on 15 km from Eindhoven, will support this event by
organizing its own exhibition dedicated to design and heritage. This
year, T2M celebrates its fifth consecutive annual conference. In
cooperation with the city of Helmond a special social program is in the
making dedicated to the efforts of the local and regional authorities to
turn a small industrial town into a post-modern (and controversial)
marvel of town planning and architecture within a European context. Part
of this is the attempt to make the region around Eindhoven into one of
the European hot spots of mobility design and heritage. Participants to
this jubilee conference are therefore encouraged to bring their spouses
and partners to make the conference into a truly memorable event.
For information on previous conferences and the T2M association, and for
any other information, see www.t2m.org <http://www.t2m.org/>. Further
details of the 2007 conference will be posted there in due course.
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