The 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M)
Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC)
The Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) at Konkuk University studies the complex movements of people, things, and ideas. In response to the rapid advancement of mobility technologies and the increasing interconnectedness of societies, AMH provides an innovative platform for multidisciplinary mobility research.
From 2018 to 2024, AMH led the Humanities Korea Plus (HK+) Programme on “Mobility Humanities Based on Co-evolution of Human Being and Technologies: Worlding the Human-Mobility Societies in the Future,” supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Building on this foundation, AMH now leads the Humanities Korea 3.0 (HK3.0) Programme on “Infrastructure Humanities.” The programme broadens the scope of Mobility Humanities by treating infrastructures not merely as technological means but as a critical framework for understanding the entanglements of human and other-than-human beings, technology and life, and society and environment.
Through research, education, global collaboration, and knowledge dissemination, AMH seeks to develop Infrastructure Humanities as an emerging field of inquiry and to cultivate the critical and ethical capacities needed to envision more just and sustainable futures.
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a global humanities and social sciences research institute and knowledge exchange platform that supports programmes which engage Asian and other international partners. IIAS aims to contribute to a better and more integrated understanding of present-day Asian realities as well as to rethink ‘Asian Studies’ in a changing global context. IIAS works to encourage dialogue and link expertise, involving scholars and other experts from all around the world in its activities. IIAS is located in Leiden, the Netherlands. Originally established (1993) by the Dutch Ministry of Education as an inter-university institute, IIAS today is based at Leiden University, where it works as a globally oriented interdisciplinary institute with strong connections throughout the Netherlands, Europe, Asia and beyond.
The Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) is a social science research institute dedicated to the study of emerging and developing regions, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. IDE-JETRO aims to build locally grounded knowledge of these regions, to clarify the conditions and challenges they face, and to share this understanding in Japan and internationally, thereby providing an intellectual foundation for cooperation between Japan and the global community on development issues. IDE-JETRO’s research spans economics, politics, law and society, from trade, industry and innovation to democracy, governance, environment, labour, gender and business and human rights. It works to foster scholarly exchange and connect expertise through research agreements with institutions in Japan and abroad, open-access publications, seminars and symposia, training programmes for policymakers from developing countries, and a specialised public library holding more than 700,000 volumes. IDE-JETRO is located in Chiba, Japan. Originally established in 1958 as a juridical foundation and reorganised as a semi-governmental body in 1960, IDE merged with JETRO in 1998 and today operates as a research institution affiliated with JETRO, serving as an international research hub with strong networks across Asia and beyond, including its role in the Research Institutes Network supporting the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).