7 & 8 July 2025, Europa-Universität Flensburg, TAL 007.

Organisation: Benno Gammerl (European University Institute, Italy), Nikolaos Papadogiannis (University of Stirling, UK), Christiane Reinecke (Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany), Ulrike Schaper (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

In recent years, historians and other scholars have become increasingly interested in exploring the multi-fold ways in which histories of sexualities, and mobilities intersect. Our workshop aims to contribute to this emergent research on the interplays between intimacies and mobilities by shining a light on the various ways in which economies influence the intimate practices of people on the move. Our primary objective is to delve into how broader economic structures, like the various manifestations of capitalism, including racial capitalism and state socialism, as well as economic practices and the material conditions of historical actors on the move have influenced their bodily and affective practices and vice versa.

In order to cover a wide range of national, imperial and postcolonial contexts, the workshop brings together international scholars working on different regions and different types of mobilities, like tourism and labour migration. In their papers, they attend to the various ways in which historical subjects navigated, were shaped by and, in turn, influenced different sexual and mobility regimes.

For participation, please send an email to Christiane Reinecke (christiane.reinecke@uni-flensburg.de) until the 30th of June

https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=59162