Annual Global History Workshop: (Im)Mobilities
13 June 2025
Department of Contemporary History, seminar room 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.
Program
8.30–9.00
Coffee and Introduction
9.00–11.00 Panel 1: Global Austria
Jeldrik Schottke
Spaces In-Between Austro-Hungarian Migrants and Consuls at the Isthmus of Suez (1859-1869)
Philipp Moritz
Regulating Mobility – The Austrian Labor Movement and the Politics of Migration Control
Lisa Stenech
From Austria to Kansas, with some stories in between: Belonging, Home and Identity in Frederick Jaeger’s life
Shriya Dixit
Barriers to Belonging: South Asian Migrants and the Paradox of Social Mobility in Austria
Chair and Discussant: Lucile Dreidemy
11.15–13.15 Panel 2 (Post)Colonial (Im)Mobilities
Josef Köstlbauer
Moor and Pilgrim–Wife and Widow–Renegade: Intersectional Mobility in the Life of Magdalena Mingo, 1731–1775
Patricio Unter
Moving in and around the Colonial Port City: Newspaper Representations of (Im)Mobility and (Dis)Connection in Spanish Manila during the Cholera Outbreak of 1882
Iolanda Munck
Female Culinary Knowledge: Socio-Ecological Relations in Cookbooks from the Dutch East Indies and the Netherlands (1850s–1920s)
Immanuel Harisch
Spare Parts. A Transnational History of Automobility, Innovation, and Transformation in East and Southern Africa, 1961–1991
Chair and Discussant: Valeska Huber
13.15–14.45
Lunch Break
14.45–16.45 Panel 3 (Im)Mobilities and their Aftermaths
Jessica E. Moss
Sexual and Gendered Necropolitics at the U.S.-Mexico Border: ‘Penetrative Threats’ and (Re)production of Nationhood
Özlem Sultan Çolak
Anchoring Memories in Motion: (Im)Mobilities of Trauma and Identity in Argentina’s Memory Landscape
Julia Schulte-Werning
Those Who Remain. Old Age and Jewish Community Welfare in Post-Independence Morocco
Kieu An Nguyen
The Power of Staying Put: Immobilities and Resistance Among the Khmer Krom in South Vietnam
Chair and Discussant: Christian De Vito
16.45–17.30
Concluding Discussion
19.00
Dinner for Workshop Participants