2022 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC)

Co-Organized by the Academy of Mobility Humanities (Konkuk University), the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities, DiSSGeA (University of Padua), and the Centre for the GeoHumanities (Royal Holloway University of London)

"Mobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities"

Seoul, 28th –29th October 2022

*Call for panels and papers:

From its earliest days, mobility studies has been intensely concerned with “the infrastructure of social life,” (Urry 2017, 13). Mobility might be seen as a kind of infrastructure for the social while it is undergirded by infrastructures of systems that enable and disable mobilities. Notably, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobility infrastructure came to be recognized as indispensable for human life itself, while brutely materializing its geographical inequality and acutely strengthening racial, sexual, and class discrimination and their intersections. But which infrastructures enable the movement of people, things, ideas, and information; that makes possible…