<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Fellow Maintainers --<br><br></div>Please see below for an invitation to submit a proposal for the <i>Mobility in History Blog</i>'s upcoming online exhibit. The theme is "People-Works: The Labor of Transport." <br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Kate<br><br></div><b>CFP: People-Works: The Labor of Transport (2018 Online Exhibit)</b><br><div><p>The <a href="https://t2m.org/publications/mobility-in-history-blog/"><em>Mobility in History Blog</em></a>
invites researchers and advanced graduate students to submit proposals
for contributions to an online exhibit on the theme of “People-Works:
The Labor of Transport.” The online exhibit explores the role of human
labor in the powering of transport throughout history and across area
contexts. It aims to illuminate the central role that human labor has
played (and continues to play) in transport, despite our grand
historical narratives of automation and mechanization, and to move the
history of transport away from studies of disembodied networks to
studies of the people who make the networks actually “work.” Each module
will explore the history of one kind of transport labor, either over
time or in a particular time and place.<br> <br>We envision that each
exhibit module will include around 1,000 words of text and several
images and/or other media. We aim for it to appeal to a general,
educated audience beyond specialists in transport history. Modules will
be peer-reviewed. The exhibit will appear online at the <em>Mobility in History Blog</em> in November 2018.<br> <br>We
encourage scholars of all periods and area contexts to apply. Abstracts
for proposed modules should be 150-250 words long, and should include a
tentative list of media that the module might include. The deadline for
proposals is February 15, 2018. Acceptances will be sent out by March
1, 2018.<br> <br><strong>Contact Info:</strong><br>Please send inquiries and abstracts to Kate McDonald, Online Exhibit Guest Editor (<a href="mailto:kmcdonald@history.ucsb.edu?subject=People-Works%20Proposal">kmcdonald@history.ucsb.edu</a>), and Michael K. Bess, Mobility in History Blog Editor-in-Chief (<a href="mailto:michael.bess@cide.edu?subject=People-Works%20Proposal">michael.bess@cide.edu</a>).<br></p><p><strong>URL: </strong><a href="https://t2m.org/publications/mobility-in-history-blog/">https://t2m.org/publications/mobility-in-history-blog/</a><br></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>**********************************<br></div>Kate McDonald<br></div><div>Assistant Professor<br><br></div><div>Department of History (HSSB 4001)<br></div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara<br></div><div>Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410</div><div><br></div><div>Now available from UC Press: <a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293915&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ucpress%2Fhistory+(UC+Press+-+History+New+Titles)&utm_content=FeedBurner" target="_blank"><i>Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan</i></a> (2017)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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