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Students (including mostly Ph D students and a limited number of young post doc) will spend five days at the Cit&#233; des T&#233;l&#233;communications in the northern part of Brittany (see: http://www.cite-telecoms.com/). They will present and discuss their research in conjunction with lectures presented by scholars.Daily&#160; language will be English.The summer school will focus on the relationship between mobility and communication history seen from a long-term perspective. This means that we are interested in projects dealing with the history of electronic systems connected or included in a mobility system broadly defined, but also in approaches of intermediality in history. The framework of the summer school will be twofold. On the one hand, we are indebted methodologically to the history of technology and innovation studies, including large technical system and social construction of technology approaches. On the other hand, we are interested in studies that explore the very borders of the concept of mobility, including studies that approach transport vehicles as media, just like means of communications such as the one enumerated above, but also novels, films, and other carriers of messages and knowledge. Topics could include wireless telegraphy, radar, mobile phone, mobile information systems, computerized traffic system regulation, radio, GPS as applied in walking, trains, cars, airplanes, boats, and rockets. The summer school will be structured as follows. Each half-day session will be based on a keynote lecture by an invited scholar and followed by student presentations and discussions of their work in progress. Social events and visits will give the opportunity to discover either traditional or modern faces of this high tech part of Brittany.The academic organizers are: Mathieu Flonneau (University Panth&#233;on -Sorbonne) Irice-CRHI, Pascal Griset (University Paris-Sorbonne) Irice-CRHI, and Gijs Mom (Eindhoven University of Technology; editor of Transfers)&#160;Teachers during the week will be:    Paul Cerruzzi, Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.    Mathieu Flonneau, Universit&#233; Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne     Pascal Griset, Universit&#233; Paris &#8211;Sorbonne    Gisela H&#252;rlimann, Universit&#228;t Zurich    Vincent Kaufmann, Ecole Polytechnique F&#233;d&#233;rale de Lausanne    Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology    Frank Schipper, Leiden Institute for History    Heike Weber, Technisches Universit&#228;t Berlin&#160;Participation to the program, including social events, is free. All local costs (accommodation and food) will be covered by the organizersParticipants are expected to pay their own travel to and from Lannion, the closest railway station linked to Paris by TGV. There is a limited amount of travel stipends available, sponsored by SHT and Transfers. The stipend from the latter are available for those students who agree to submit their paper to Transfers for a special issue on Mobility and Communication.Participation will be limited to 15-18 students. Those interested in attending the summer school should send the following documents by e-mail to Mathieu Flonneau at: mattaflo@aol.com:     a CV    a summary of their dissertation project and an example of their work in progress (provisional chapter of the dissertation or a published article in any langage).    a summary of their project for post doc candidatesThe deadline for applications is April 25th 2011. Students selected will be notified before May 16th 2011. 