December 2009
Centre for Urban History
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Welcome to Urban History News - a monthly digest of news and information for the urban history community.
Transcending the Boundaries: doctoral research across disciplines
30 January 2010 • Leicester, UK
Two research students from the Centre for Urban History (Matt Neale and Malcolm Noble) and one student from the School of Historical Studies (Robyn Cooper) have been awarded funding from the University of Leicester Graduate School's Research Training Innovation Fund for a postgraduate workshop. Being held in the CUH's anniversary year, this student-led event hopes to utilize the Centre's international and cross-disciplinary connections to attract a diverse range of participants.
The workshop aims to attract research students from a variety of academic disciplines, with the intention of building lasting connections between approaches, projects, departments and universities.
Space, Place and Environment
06 March 2010 • Kolding, Denmark
The Gender in History Group of the University of Southern Denmark invites proposals of papers relating to historical approaches on the theme of Space, Place and Environment. Proposals should be for papers of twenty minutes, and any aspect of the theme will be considered. Contributions from postgraduates are especially encouraged. The conference language will be English.
Papers may address some of the following themes:
City and Country
Domestic and Public Space
Using/abusing the environment
Gendered Spaces
Individual and collective identities
Public history and the use of space
(e.g. museums, parks etc.)
Gossip, gospel, and governance: orality in Europe 1400-1700
14-16 July 2011 • London, UK
Scholars are invited to propose papers for an important international conference on orality in early modern Europe, organised by the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at Northumbria University.
The aim of the conference is to explore the spoken word and its power in a broad range of various contexts: indoors and outside, from the pulpit, the stage or the lectern, in political discourse and as a method of instruction in a period when the spoken word was still capable of reaching a wider audience than written texts available only to the literate, the rich, and the powerful, something of which contemporaries were fully aware. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches ranging from literature and art history to musicology and the history of language, the conference will bring together scholars from an international field.
Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Interwar Britain
26 February 2010 • Milton Keynes, UK
The European Centre for the Study of Crime, Policing and Justice at the Open University will be hosting a one-day conference on Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Interwar Britain.
Summer School:
Lived Space in Past and Present: Challenges in the Research and Management of Townscape and Cultural Heritage
21-27 June 2010 • Budapest, Hungary
Urban settlement has always had a strong and complex spatial dimension. Each town or city developed its unique structure and built form, which has undergone several changes, including rapid and fundamental alterations in modern times. The result of these processes: our urban cultural heritage, its research, protection and possible uses form the core of the planned course. The participants will investigate the interaction of people and place across the medieval, early modern and modern periods. Through a series of topographical features, which were present in various forms in the majority of medieval European towns (defences; squares and streets; churches, chapels, monasteries; cemeteries; marketplaces and shops, etc.), this summer school will examine how the built form of settlements reflected and influenced the needs of medieval and early modern society. An equally important issue is the place, role and use of these elements of urban environment in our modern world. Participants are encouraged to contribute with examples from their own research or practical work experience.
This summer school will be complemented by another one-week course organized by the European University Institute (EUI) at Kőszeg, the main theme of which will be the principles and practice of heritage management in historic towns. The participants of the CEU SUN course are encouraged to apply to the course at Kőszeg and will have priority in the selection among the applicants.
Seasonal reminder...
URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE call for papers deadline 15 December
upcoming events...
08-09 January 2010
Borders and Identities
Newcastle, UK
15-16 January 2010
Early Modern Dis/Locations
Newcastle, UK
30 January 2010
PRE MODERN TOWNS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
London, UK
30 January 2010
Transcending the Boundaries: doctoral research across disciplines
Leicester, UK
approaching deadlines...
15 December
URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
04 January
Gossip, gospel, and governance: orality in Europe 1400-1700
08 January
Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes
CUH seminars...
CUH Seminar Series 2009-10:
2009-10 marks the 25th Anniversary Year at CUH.
other seminar series...
Ottoman Urban Studies 2009-10
Berlin, Germany
Historical Perspectives: Work in Progress Seminars
Glasgow, UK
Birkbeck Urban Studies Group
London, UK
IHR Sport & Leisure History
London, UK
The latest addition to Ashgate's Historical Urban Studies series is Segregation - Integration - Assimilation: Religious and Ethnic Groups in the Medieval Towns of Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Derek Keene, Balázs Nagy and Katalin Szende.
A 20% discount is offered on this book to UHN subscribers.
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01 January 2010
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