Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
7 October 2020
Introduction
Matthias Middell & Steffi Marung (Leipzig U)
9:30 am – 10:00 am CEST
Panel “The Challenges of Mapping Mobilities”
10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Chair: Ulf Engel (U Leipzig)
Jana Moser (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography): Visualizing Mobilities – Visualized Mobilities
Till Nagel (Mannheim U of Applied Sciences): Moving People. Non-Traditional Forms of Visualizing Mobility
Comment: Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
Keynote
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CEST
Tim Cresswell (U Edinburgh)
Valuing Mobility in a Post COVID-19 World
Panel “Ambitious Visions of World Order: Neoliberalism and Socialism as Mobile Concepts”
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CEST
Chair: Uwe Müller (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe)
Max Trecker (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe): Economists in Exile: Forced Mobility and the Neoliberal Respatialization of the World in the 1930s and 1940s
Steffi Marung (Leipzig U): Intellectual and Spatial Mobilities of Black Radical Intellectuals: Imagining a Post-colonial World Order after the Russian Revolution
Johanna Bockman (George Mason U): Aesthetics and Spatial-Claims Moving across Time and Space: Multiple Globalizations in Washington, DC
Comment: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley C)
8 October 2020
Roundtable “Transregional Perspectives on Mobility”
10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Chair: Steffi Marung (Leipzig U)
Ursula Rao, Elisabeth Kaske, Stefan Rohdewald & Dmitri van den Bersselaar (all Leipzig U)
Panel “The Making of the American Empire: Mobilities, Mobilization, and Borders”
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CEST
Chair: Matthias Middell (Leipzig U)
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig U): “More of the Pioneer Spirit”: Black Mobilities in the Age of US Imperialism
Steffen Wöll (Leipzig U): The Space Between Oceans: Mobilizing America’s Transhemispheric Empire
Megan Maruschke (Leipzig U): Mobility at the Border, Mobility of the Border: American Boundary Commissions in the Long 19th Century
Comment: Frank Schumacher (Western U)
9 October 2020
Panel “Decolonization and Post-colonial State Building: Radical and Subversive Mobilities across the Atlantic”
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm CEST
Chair: Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig U)
Marcus Rediker (U Pittsburgh): Violence, Mobility, and Resistance in the Red Atlantic: Introductory Remarks
Ana Moledo (Leipzig U): Transregional Mobilities and National Liberation: Anatomy of a Partnership
Claudia Martínez Hernàndez (U Vienna): Researching Socialist Mobilities: Framing of the Cuban Personnel Circulation
Comment: Holger Weiß (Åbo Akademi U)
10 October 2020
Panel 6 “Economic Networks and Infrastructures: Mobile Actors across Colonial and Post-colonial Spaces in Africa”
9:30 am – 11:00 am CEST
Chair: Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig U)
Geert Castryck (Leipzig U): Spheres of Life and Scales of Action among Gujarati and Omani Merchants in Central Africa, 1920s–1930s
Rene Umlauf & Marian Burchardt (Leipzig U): Infrastructuring Spatial Formats: Drones and Mobility in Africa
Comment: Dirk van Laak (Leipzig U)
Concluding Discussion
11:30 pm – 1:00 pm CEST