February 2010
Centre for Urban History
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Urban History Online Multimedia Companion
Transnational Urbanism in the Americas
As part of Urban History's ongoing commitment to innovative publishing, Cambridge University Press and the Editors are pleased to announce the launch of its latest multimedia companion - Transnational Urbanism in the Americas.
In this special issue, a project of the journal's North American Editorial Board, six authors from Canada, France, and the United States explore a sweeping range of historical issues that linked cities of the Americas to the rest of the globe.
This multimedia companion features the publishing debut of HyperCities, an online, open-source research and educational platform for studying and interacting with layered hypermedia histories of city and global spaces.
Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History
2010-2011 series • Boston, USA
The Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History invites proposals for sessions in its 2010-2011 series. Programs take place at the Massachusetts Historical Society, usually on the third or fourth Thursday evening of the month between September and April. The Seminar's steering committee welcomes suggestions for papers dealing with all aspects of American immigration and urban history and culture. Programs are not confined to Massachusetts topics, nor are they limited to the research of historians. Papers comparing the American experience with developments elsewhere in the world are welcome.
Power and Politics
Social Science History Association
18-21 November 2010 • Chicago, USA
The 2010 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on Power and Politics.
The Urban Network would like to encourage submissions that consider Labour issues, Shelter, Order, and Food, Planning Ideology, Ancient City, African-American Urban Experience, Historical Trajectory of the Ghetto, Real Estate Markets and History, informal urban institutions, Jobs, Policy, and Urban Visual Culture, and Planning Practice.
European Business History Association
Dissertation Prize
Every two years, the EBHA awards a prize for the best dissertation in business history submitted to a European university in the previous two years. Eligible dissertations may be in any European language. The next prize will be awarded at the EBHA annual meeting in Glasgow in August 2010 (see below).
Three finalists will be selected from the dissertations submitted for consideration, and the authors are invited to give a presentation based on their dissertations at a plenary session at the forthcoming EBHA conference.
Chicago History Museum
Urban History Seminar Series
The seminar schedule for Spring 2010 has been released.
The Urban History Seminar encourages expressions of interest – from scholars early in their careers or those at more advanced points – about delivering a paper during 2010-2011.
Revisiting New Towns of the Middle Ages
21-23 May 2010 • Winchelsea, UK
This conference focuses on the continuing legacy of Professor Maurice Beresford’s ‘New Towns of the Middle Ages’ and draws together both academic and general audiences of his book to reflect on the recent advances in research on the topic of medieval new towns and their planning.
Conference speakers will explore the societies, landscapes and material cultures of medieval ‘new towns’, placing them in an international comparative context, as well as their own local settings. To this end, Winchelsea itself provides an important case-study, as Professor Beresford had recognized, so the second day of the programme includes lectures on the town’s medieval archaeology, history and planning, as well as a field-visit around the impressive remains of ‘New Winchelsea’.
European Business History Association
26-28 August 2010 • Glasgow, UK
The Centre for Business History in Scotland and the University of Glasgow invite you to the 14th Annual Conference of the European Business History Association, which will be held in various committee rooms at the University of Glasgow, 26-28th August 2010. The theme for the conference will be "Business Beyond the Firm".
Cities Getting Smaller: Modern Crisis or Path to Prosperity?
30 September-02 October 2010 • New York, USA
The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History will mount an international conference in September 2010 to address the issue of cities with declining populations in the Americas and Europe.
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers. Graduate students are invited to attend the conference which will also be open to the public. Invited participants will be asked to attend a general wrap-up session at the end of the conference. The conference organisers are particularly interested in historical papers on cities of the ancient and medieval world (Rome and Venice, for example); and particular periods of change (e.g., the 14th century). Other possible topics include declining or shrinking cities in upstate New York, the United States, and Europe, population shifts and birthrate decline in the context of declining city populations, and deindustrializing cities of the 20th century in both Europe and America.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
From 1 January 2010 the Bibliography of British and Irish History (previously known as the Royal Historical Society Bibliography) has been integrated into the BREPOLiS platform as a subscription service. A detailed leaflet on the BBIH can be downloaded from www.brepols.net. Trial access to the BBIH Online database is available at http://www.brepolis.net (enter databases) until 22 February 2010. (The link is via IP address and will require you to be on a network, such as on campus, or using VPN.)
Mapping Limerick's Urban History
To mark the publication of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21 Limerick by Eamon O’Flaherty, a programme of events has been organised for the spring of 2010 examining varying aspects of Limerick’s urban and topographical history. This programme has been arranged in collaboration with the Friends of the Hunt Museum, the Thomond Archaeological Society and the Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society.
Not strictly 'urban'...
The £3.3m fundraising campaign has begun for the joint acquisition of the Staffordshire Hoard by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent.
Highlights of the hoard are currently on display in Room 37 at the British Museum. A book ‘The Staffordshire Hoard’ has been recently published by the British Museum Press, priced £4.99 with £1 going to the appeal fund for acquisition. A selection of objects from the hoard will go on display at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent from 13 February to 7 March 2010.
URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Transgressive Cities:
Practices and Place
25-26 March 2010 • Durham, UK
Online Registration is now open through the Economic History Society. Late booking fee applies after 12 February 2010.
Inaugural Lecture
Richard Dennis (one of the stalwarts of Urban History Group) is giving his inaugural lecture as Professor of Human Geography at UCL on Thursday 18 March at 5.30pm. His subject is "No Abiding City: transience and transfiguration in 'modern' cities".
The lecture will focus on anxieties about and representations of changing urban landscapes and shifting populations in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities, and will range over a variety of Richard's interests in the cultural and social geographies of British and Canadian cities coping with change and anticipating their uncertain futures.
If you would like to attend Richard's lecture, please contact Charlotte Jones and ask for an invitation containing further information.
upcoming events...
11-13 February 2010
Labour as resource
Paris, France
From 11 February 2010
Mapping Limerick's Urban History
Limerick, RoI
18-19 February 2010
Commemorative Plaques Conference
London, UK
26 February 2010
Policing, Media and Civil Liberties
Milton Keynes, UK
06 March 2010
Space, Place and Environment
Kolding, Denmark
25-26 March 2010
URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Durham, UK
26–28 March 2010
Economic History Society Annual Conference
Durham, UK
27 March 2010
Religion and Society symposium
Edinburgh, UK
30 March - 1 April 2010
Social History Society Annual Conference
Glasgow, UK
approaching deadlines...
05 February
Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Interwar Britain (registration)
12 February
URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE (Early bird registration)
Research Associate
15 February
Lived Space in Past and Present (applications)
Power and Politics 
EBHA Dissertation Prize
28 February
Re-appraising the Neo-Georgian 1880-1980
15 March
Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History
situations vacant...
Part-time Research Associate
"Mapping Memory on the Liverpool Waterfront since the 1950s"
University of Liverpool
This is an opportunity to work on an innovative public history project ‘Mapping Memory on the Liverpool Waterfront since the 1950s’, run by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool, and funded by the AHRC Beyond Text research programme. You should have a PhD in history (or a related discipline) or equivalent experience. Experience of oral and/or public history projects is desirable. You will play a key role in co-ordinating and administering the oral history programme, interpreting museum and archive collections, building multi-media resources, and drafting research outputs. The project will give you valuable experience of working in an interdisciplinary research team. The post is available for 18 months, on a 0.5 fte basis.
CUH seminars...
CUH Seminar Series 2009-10:
2009-10 marks the 25th Anniversary Year at CUH.
other seminar series...
Historical Perspectives: Work in Progress Seminars
Glasgow, UK
Birkbeck Urban Studies Group
London, UK
IHR Sport & Leisure History
London, UK
Chicago History Museum
Chicago, USA
Weimarpolis
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2009
Four historic walks through Putney and a new dramatised journey of Arnold Bennett’s 1908 novel Buried Alive will be launched in May 2010 during the Wandsworth Arts Festival.
(Buried Alive is available as a free e-book from Project Gutenberg)
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01 March 2010
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