The Research Platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies: Interdisciplinary Studies on Transnational Formations" is pleased to announce that the final symposium "Mobile Cultures and Societies: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies at the University of Vienna" will take place on the 5th and the 6th of October 2023.
We are glad to welcome Prof. Heidrun Friese as a keynote speaker! She will discuss the "Ambivalent Mobilities" on the 5th of October at 6 pm. On the second day of the symposium, doctoral students of the platform will present their preliminary research results. We will conclude the event with the panel discussion "Potentials and Challenges for Future Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies Research" at 4pm.
Talks and keynotes will take place at Schreyvogelsaal. During the breaks we cordially invite the participants to refresh themselves at our buffet at Jura Soyfer-Saal.
Online-registration is closed.
If you still want to participate, please write an E-mail to: marlene.eichinger@univie.ac.at
Program:
Thursday, October 5, 2023
18.00: Welcoming Words
Alexandra Ganser (Head of the Research Platform)
Patrick Sakdapolrak (Deputy Head of the Research Platform)
18.30: Keynote - Ambivalences of Mobility
Speaker: Heidrun Friese (TU Chemnitz)
Moderation: Patrick Sakdapolrak
hybrid live streaming available via Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61021210124?pwd=UDl3M1p0NVZtNGxoSlpKNG9QaFgydz09
Meeting-ID: 610 2121 0124
ID-Code: 651190
20.00 Reception - Jura Soyfer Saal
Friday, October 6, 2023
09.30: Check-in and Coffee
10.00: Social Science Perspectives on Mobility Studies
Im/Mobile Aspirations and Trajectories within the Context of the Uruguayan National Relocation Plan
Jana Donat
Between Eastern Province and Lusaka: Social and Spatial Im/Mobilities of Women in Zambia since the 1950s
Daniela Atanasova
The Impact of Translocal Social Remittances on the Environment in Morocco
Rachael Diniega
Investigating Gender Relations through Policy Im/Mobilities Lens. The Case of Financial Literacy Education in Austria
Dovaine Buschmann
Discussant: Edma Ajanovic
Moderator: Birgit Sauer
12.00: Lunch Break - Jura Soyfer Saal
13.30: Humanities Perspectives on Mobility
Mobilizing the Dead? De-Extinction and the Resurrection of Species
Romana Bund
Bewegter Stillstand im Werk Marlen Haushofers
Nicola Kopf
Archipelagic Poetics of Mobility in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry
Barbara Gföllner
Discussant: Heidrun Friese
Moderators: Annegret Pelz and Thomas Macho
15.30: Coffee Break - Jura Soyfer Saal
16.00: Potentials and Challenges for Future Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies Research: Panel Discussion
Petra Dannecker
Kirsten Rüther
Immanuel Harisch
Barbara Maly-Bowie
Nicola Kopf
Rachael Diniega
Moderator: Alexandra Ganser
