Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to prolong the call for contributions (papers, presentations, video/audio work, artwork, ...) to the upcoming conference on "Public Transport as Public Space", which will take place in Brussels on 20-22 April 2022. The new deadline for submissions is now 4th January 2022. Please find all details below, and at https://putspace.eu/brussels-2022/

— The Event —

The conference is organised as part of PUTSPACE, a research project led by academics at Tallinn University, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Åbo Akademi University in Turku and Université Libre de Bruxelles. Both the conference and the project explore what makes public transport a type of public space, and for whom.

As public transport continues to be explored primarily by engineers and economists, its publicness remains understudied. Yet, public transport embraces intense and intimate sites for encountering cultural diversity, facilitating social integration and negotiating public space. It reflects political ideologies, social relations and conflicts, allowing for the reproduction or resistance to configurations of power. Put simply, public transport is at the frontline of contesting what is, can be, or should be public in the city.

The conference aims to gather diverse contributions that humanise and politicise knowledge about public transport by exploring narratives, experiences and contestations of public transport.

— Call for Contributions —

The conference is more than a typical academic event. Alongside academic researchers, it will gather public officials, policy experts, activists and artists. It embraces roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, art interventions and academic presentations. We welcome contributors from diverse fields related to the humanities and social sciences, including (but not limited to) history, anthropology, cultural studies, literary studies, political sciences, geography and spatial/urban planning. In all the sessions the use of visual materials and presentations is strongly encouraged over “classic” PowerPoint slides.

We are currently looking for contributions to five open sessions organised at the conference. You can find the list of sessions at https://putspace.eu/brussels-2022/, or download the call for contributions under this link: https://putspace.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Putspace-Conference-Brussels_CfP.pdf

If interested, please submit a short description of your contribution (250-300 words), specifying its format (e.g. paper, presentation, video, audio), and including a short bio (max. 150 words) by 4th January 2022. Please mention the short title of the session to which you are submitting in the subject of your email.

Your proposal should be sent to the session organisers as well as [log in to unmask]

— Practical information and travel bursaries —

The conference is free of charge, and there is no participation fee. Besides the conference activities, the participants are offered free lunch and coffee breaks. However, they need to organise and cover the accommodation and travel on their own.
The organisers will provide individual travel bursaries covering accommodation and/or travel expenses up to 250€. To apply for the bursary, please send an email titled “Travel bursary” directly to the event organisers at [log in to unmask] Specify your motivation to obtain the bursary as well as your current work status, as the bursaries are intended for participants with low, precarious or no income.
The event is organised as part of the PUTSPACE project, which is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme, co-funded by AKA, BMBF via DLRPT, ETAg, and the European Commission through Horizon 2020.

For any questions you may have regarding the event, please contact the organisers at [log in to unmask]

Kind regards,
Wojciech Kębłowski

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (COSMOPOLIS), Etterbeek, F4.74
Université libre de Bruxelles (IGEAT), Solbosch, DC6.215
FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow
www.keblowski.com

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