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)
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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.
The Asia Research Institute (ARI) was established in 2001 to provide a focal point and resource for world-class research on the Asian region at the National University of Singapore. ARI engages the humanities and social sciences broadly defined and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond disciplines. As a university-level institute, ARI brings together scholars from different departments, faculties and colleges across campus for seminars, conferences and collaborative research projects. Located at one of Asia’s communication hubs, the Institute is also an important place for scholarly encounters between Singapore, the region and wider worlds. Home to a strong team of full-time researchers, and central to networks of associates in Singapore and overseas, ARI sustains thematic research clusters and programmes as well as areally-defined study groups. The Institute welcomes visitors whose scholarship is aligned with our current and developing areas of interest. We are also very keen to build partnerships with institutions who share our mission of advancing research on Asia as a highly-diverse and globally-connected region.