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

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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.

PROPOSALS MAY BE SENT until 5 June 2003 TO THE PROGRAMME CHAIR DR MOM:
g.p.a.mom AT tm.tue.nl

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 P.E.Staal AT tm.tue.nl, 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): g.p.a.mom AT tm.tue.nl; dr. Peter-Eloy Staal, ECMD
(secretary): P.E.Staal AT tm.tue.nl; dr. Laurent Bonnaud, Centre Roland
Mousnier, Paris-Sorbonne (COST 340): laurentbonnaud AT laposte.net; dr.
Hans-Liudger Dienel, Centre for Technology and Society, Technical
University Berlin (Transport History Group, German Business History
Association): dienel AT ztg.tu-berlin.de; prof. dr. Colin Divall (National
Railway Museum & University of York, UK) (COST 340): cd11 AT york.ac.uk;
dr. Peter Lyth, Editor, Journal of Transport History: PeterLyth AT aol.com;
dr. Clay McShane, Northeastern University, Boston, USA (ToE-MHG):
c.mcshane AT neu.edu; dr. Michèle Merger, CNRS Institut d’histoire moderne
et contemporaine, Paris (Chair COST 340): mmerger AT ens.fr and
mimerger AT tin.it.