This short piece is an introduction to the Dialogue section. It provides a
brief outline context to the panel discussion which took place during the
2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference & Annual Conference of the
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
co-hosted by T2M and Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) in Seoul
in 2023. The panel invited reflections from four T2M presidents, namely,
Hans-Liudger Dienel, Mimi Sheller, Mathieu Flonneau, and Carlos LópezGalviz, as a means of supplementing one of the conference keynotes
by Gijs Mom, founding president of T2M. Using the editorials of the first
issues of five journals, this piece brings together contributions made
over the past seventy years to the fields of transport history and mobility
studies, providing a relevant background to the various issues discussed
during the Dialogue.