[ecrea] Summer School: Mobility and Information Technologies

> Mobility and Information Technologies: a long-term perspective
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> 12th-16th September 2011, Pleumeur-Bodou France. 
> Sorbonne, Eindhoven University of Technology, Cité des Télécoms
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> Call for applications
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> Organised jointly by the Cité des 
> Télécommunications, the Paris-Sorbonne 
> University, the Foundation for the History of 
> Technology SHT at Eindhoven University of 
> Technology, and Transfers, Interdisciplinary 
> Journal of Mobility Studies, the summer school 
> aims at providing doctoral students with an 
> overview of relevant research results and of 
> innovative tools and methodologies in the field 
> of communication and mobility studies, and their history.
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> Students (including mostly Ph D students and a 
> limited number of young post doc) will spend 
> five days at the Cité des Télécommunications in 
> the northern part of Brittany (see: 
> http://www.citetelecoms.com/). They will present 
> and discuss their research in conjunction with 
> lectures presented by scholars. Daily language 
> will be English. The summer school will focus on 
> the relationship between mobility and 
> communication history seen from a long-term 
> perspective. This means that we are interested 
> in projects dealing with the history of 
> electronic systems connected or included in a 
> mobility system broadly defined, but also in 
> approaches of intermediality in history. The 
> framework of the summer school will be twofold. 
> On the one hand, we are indebted 
> methodologically to the history of technology 
> and innovation studies, including large 
> technical system and social construction of 
> technology approaches. On the other hand, we are 
> interested in studies that explore the very 
> borders of the concept of mobility, including 
> studies that approach transport vehicles as 
> media, just like means of communications such as 
> the one enumerated above, but also novels, 
> films, and other carriers of messages and 
> knowledge. Topics could include wireless 
> telegraphy, radar, mobile phone, mobile 
> information systems, computerized traffic system 
> regulation, radio, GPS as applied in walking, 
> trains, cars, airplanes, boats, and rockets.
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> The summer school will be structured as follows. 
> Each half-day session will be based on a keynote 
> lecture by an invited scholar and followed by 
> student presentations and discussions of their 
> work in progress. Social events and visits will 
> give the opportunity to discover either 
> traditional or modern faces of this high tech 
> part of Brittany. The academic organizers are: 
> Mathieu Flonneau (University Panthéon -Sorbonne) 
> Irice-CRHI, Pascal Griset (University 
> Paris-Sorbonne) Irice-CRHI, and Gijs Mom 
> (Eindhoven University of Technology; editor of Transfers)
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> Teachers during the week will be:
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> Paul Cerruzzi Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. Mathieu Flonneau
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> Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
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> Pascal Griset
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> Université Paris ­Sorbonne
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> Gisela Hürlimann
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> Universität Zurich
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> Vincent Kaufmann
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> Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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> Gijs Mom
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> Eindhoven University of Technology
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> Frank Schipper
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> Leiden Institute for History
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> Heike Weber
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> Technisches Universität Berlin
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> Participation to the program, including social 
> events, is free. All local costs (accommodation 
> and food) will be covered by the organizers 
> Participants are expected to pay their own 
> travel to and from Lannion, the closest railway 
> station linked to Paris by TGV. There is a 
> limited amount of travel stipends available, 
> sponsored by SHT and Transfers. The stipend from 
> the latter are available for those students who 
> agree to submit their paper to Transfers for a 
> special issue on Mobility and Communication. 
> Participation will be limited to 15-18 students. 
> Those interested in attending the summer school 
> should send the following documents by e-mail to 
> Mathieu Flonneau at: (mattaflo /at/ aol.com): a CV a 
> summary of their dissertation project and an 
> example of their work in progress (provisional 
> chapter of the dissertation or a published 
> article in any langage). a summary of their 
> project for post doc candidates The deadline for 
> applications is April 25th 2011. Students 
> selected will be notified before May 16th 2011.

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