13^th International Conference on Urban History

Sessions:

• M01. Myth Making in the City: Mythologies, Memories and Meaning in Comparative Context
• M02. Rethinking Towns and Universities: Old and New Methodological Approaches
• M03. Out! Expulsions and Removals from Urban Communities, from the Middle Ages to the Present
• M04. After Pompeii – Where Does the Study of the Roman City Go in the 21st Century?
• M05. Strangers in the City: Migration, Identity and Place 1200–1700
• M06. Belief Systems and the Making of Urban Politics: Comparing Cities in Europe and the Wider Mediterranean World (1100–1700)
• M07. Inter-city Competition in Global Urban History (Middle Ages – Early Modern Period)
• M08. Urban Hierarchy: The Interaction Between Towns and Cities in Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times
• M09. Inner City Redevelopment 1300–1800: Transformations of the Structure and Appearance of Pre-modern Towns
• M10. Spaces on the Urban Margin and Periphery in the Pre-industrial Period/ Marges et périphéries urbaines en Europe (Moyen Âge/Temps Modernes)
• M11. Urban Spaces, Mobility and “Citadinité” in the Mediterranean cities (14th to 18th century)
• M12. Global Consumption in European Cities (1500–1850)
• M13. Gender in Maritime, Trading and Imperial towns: European and Atlantic urban Communities, c. 1650–1850
• M14. The Place of the Dead: Burial Areas and Buried Bodies in Early Modern European cities
• M15. Urbanizing Nature: the Role of the City in Reshaping Nature 1500–2000
• M16. Adapting City in the World of Changing Boundaries (16th–20th Centuries)
• M17. Legal Pluralism in European and Colonial Cities, 1600–1940
• M18. Conceiving and Elaborating the Landscapes of Power: Comparative Perspectives on Capital Cities, 19th–21st centuries
• M19. Settler Cities: A Useful Concept to Reinterpret Transnational Urban History?
• M20. Reinterpreting Global History: Second Cities, an Alternative Road to Global Integration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century
• M21. European Seaport Cultures
• M22. Reinterpreting Space and Spatial Relationships
• M23. The Street: Making and Meaning (19th and 20th Centuries)
• M24. Everyday Experiences and Emotions in Transforming Urban Environments, 19th-20th Century
• M25. (Im)material Memory Traces in the Urban Landscape. Europe, 19th–20th Century
• M26. Urban History and the Materiality of Literary Narratives
• M27. The City on Display. How to Interpret and Share Urban History?
• M28. Towns of Two-fold Memories and Mentalities Around the Baltic Sea
• M29. Culture and Cities: Cities as Agents of Urban Cultural Development Since the 1920s.
• M30.Transnational Urban Planning Expertise, Between and Within Europe and Americas (1900–1950)
• M31.The Social History of Pre-planned Model Cities
• M32. Post-war Reconstruction in Transnational Perspective
• M33. At Home in the “Concrete Jungle”: Lived Experience and Reputation in Twentieth-century Mass Housing
• M34. Reconsidering Mass Housing and Environmental Thought After 1945
• M35. Urban Automobility: Ambivalences and Disputes
• M36. Educating the Urban Youth in the Twentieth Century
• M37: Repenser les usages politiques de la rue. Europe-Amériques XIXe–XXIe siècles / Rethinking the Political Uses of the Streets: Europe-America 19th–21st Centuries
• M38. Digital Cities: a New Paradigm for Urban Historical Research
• M39. Facilitating Urban History – Archives in the Digital Transformation
• M40. Writing Urban History Today: Experiences and Challenges in the Process of History Making
• S01: Life in the Ruins: Nature and Urban Dereliction
• S02: Mapping Networks in Historical Cultural Markets: Methods and Tools
• S03: Re-interpreting the Islamic Medina: New Perspectives on Linking and Distancing of Space
• S04: Reinterpreting Privileges: the First Urban Charters in Medieval Europe in a Comparative Perspective
• S05: Monastery in Medieval Urban Setting
• S06: Cities at War in the Medieval Islamic World (Xth–XVth c.) / Villes en guerre dans le Dār al-Islām médiéval (Xe–XVe s.)
• S07: Gender, Credit and Creditworthiness in Premodern cities (1200–1800)
• S08: Sensing Urban Darkness and Light in Medieval and Early Modern Towns
• S09: The Noses and Eyes of the City: Reinterpreting Early Modern Politics and Administrative Practices of Hygiene
• S10: Communication in Early Modern Towns: News, Gossip, Messages
• S11: Natural Disasters and Relocation of Cities in Spanish America, 16th – 18th centuries
• S12: Geographies of Urban “In-between-ness” in the Islamic World: Space, Culture and Society
• S13: Liminal Lives: Relations between Urban Societies and Non-Human Animals (16th – 19th Century)
• S14: On the Front: Exploring the Boundary between Seaside Cities and the Sea
• S15: Satire and the City: Representations of Cities and Urban Life in the Comical Press (18th – 20th centuries)
• S16: Outdoor Spaces for Children: Playgrounds as Materiality, Urban Planning and Designed Space in a Historical Perspective
• S17: Reinterpreting Urban Underground Spaces for the Production and Conservation of Foodstuffs in Modern and Contemporary History
• S18: The Impact of the Second Industrialization Utilities on European Urban Growth, XIXth and XXth Centuries
• S19: Railways and Cities: Sensorial and Emotional Perspectives
• S20: Ambiguous Spaces: The Menacing and Inviting Shadows of Urbanity
• S21: Urban Animals: Human–Animal Relations in 20th Century Urban Societies
• S22: The City as Mnemonic Device
• S23: Contemporary Public Spaces and Cultural Manifestations – Cities, Creativity and Modern Civic Expressions
• S24: Foreign Sports in Urban Centers
• S25: Cities, Science and Satire: Satirical Representations of Urban Modernity and Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Public Space
• S26: Re-interpretation of the Ottoman City under the Tanzimat (Reforms)
• S27: Emerging Cities – Knowledge and Urbanisation in Europe’s Borderlands 1880–1945
• S28: Town Hall Squares as Spatial Focal Points of Urban Life in the 19th and 20th Century
• S29: Managing the State, Transforming the City. Office Buildings for Central State Administrations as a ‘Forgotten’ Type of Political Architecture, 1880–1980
• S30: Worker Housing and the Shaping of the 20th Century City
• S31: Religious Sites and Urbanization in Contemporary Europe
• S32: The Urban Playground: Working, Playing and Being a Child in the 20th Century City
• S33: Women on the Edge: Mobility and Regionalism from the Margins
• S34: Conflicts and Connections: City Partnerships in the “Global Cold War”
• S35: (Post)communist Urbanism: Reassessing Ideologies in the Contemporary City
• S36: Cultural heritage of the Post-totalitarian cities: 20th and 21st Centuries
• S37. New energy paradigms in urban Europe, XIXth and XXth centuries
• S38. “Suburbia” in the medieval and early modern town