Bilkent History Graduate Symposium 2025: Mobility

Mobility is a fundamental aspect of human experience, encompassing the movement of people, goods, and ideas across various contexts and scales. Everything that has touched upon Planet Earth since the dawn of civilization has been either forced or influenced to change its location, permanently or temporarily. From the migrations of early humans to the revolutions in transportation and communication, the movement of people, goods, ideas, and technologies has transformed the world. We welcome diverse and creative approaches to the history of mobility with no chronological or geographical limits. We encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the topics in question, drawing on such fields as archaeology, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, genetics, sociology, literature, and other relevant social and natural sciences.

Themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to:

-Migration studies

-Urbanization and de-urbanization

-Trade and supply

-Modes of travel

-Motivations of travel

-Transfer of ideas

-Cross-cultural encounters

-Inter-religious encounters

-Educational mobility

-Evolution of transportation

-Usage of animals in mobility

-War and crises

The Bilkent Graduate Symposium only accepts session and paper proposals submitted in English. Those who want to propose a complete panel should send their abstracts as a single file and their CVs as separate files.

If you have any further enquiries, you are most welcome to contact us at historygradsymposium@gmail.com.

Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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Movement

Movement is the crossing of space by people, objects, capital, ideas and other information. It is either oriented, and therefore occurs between an origin and one or more destinations, or it is more akin to the idea of simply wandering, with no real origin or destination.

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