(Im)Mobilities

13 June 2025

Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Seminarraum 1

The Vienna Global History Group dedicates the academic year 2024/25 to the topic of (im)mobilities. We aim to broaden our understanding of mobility, including the movement of people, goods, and ideas. We also want to reflect on the methodological concerns of how to grant immobile and disconnected people and phenomena greater attention in global history.

To explore this broad field, the Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group addresses different forms of (im)mobility from a global perspective. Topics include human mobility in various forms as well as the mobility of ideas and concepts, or of objects and materials. Papers tackle (im)mobility both on an empirical and on a methodological/theoretical level and therefore contribute to an overarching conversation regarding the foundational role of mobility in global history and its limits.

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Research Cluster State, Politics, and Governance in Historical Perspective of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies.