Swiss Mobility Conference 2025

1 & 2 September 2025 - Géopolis, UNIL

The conference provides a place for discussion and debate for scholars in the humanities and social sciences working on various forms of mobility. 

Presentations may address mobility in its diversity (residential choices, daily mobility and mode choice, multi-residentiality, tourism, etc.) and fall in the following research agendas:

• Theoretical debates (and in particular the contributions of social theories to the study of mobilities)
• Methodological innovations (using mobile methods)
• Public policy and decision making in mobility
• Regulation of mobility and its tools
• The actors and their logics of action (residential choice, daily mobility and mode choice, multi-residentiality, etc.)
• The norms and values underlying mobility and social inequality
• Temporality and spatiality of mobility
• Mobility prospective

Organizers

• Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne

The conference will be conducted in both French and English.

Abstracts of 3000 characters must be sent by March 9, 2025, to the e-mail address : mobility.conference@unil.ch

Abstracts must be submitted exclusively in English. Additionally, applicants are kindly requested to indicate in their abstracts the languages (French and/or English) in which they are able to present.

Please use our abstract template.

• 8 January, 2025: Call for abstracts opens
   
• March 9, 2025: Deadline for submitting abstracts
   
• End of April, 2025: Notification of acceptance
   
• May, 2025: Registration opens
   
• September 1-2, 2025: Swiss Mobility Conference

For any question, please contact mobility.conference@unil.ch