Global Urban History
GUHP (globalurbanhistory.org) is a meeting place for scholars interested in exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history.
- Reposted by Global Urban History📣 We're looking for a new Bibliographer to join the #UrbanHistory team! This is a great opportunity to get involved with a world-leading academic journal and find out about the latest urban history publications. Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Contact Roey Sweet for more details.
- We were delighted that Global Urban Historians from five continents were able to gather at GUHP2 Berlin earlier this month! Read our conference report and see more photos on our website: globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
- We're gearing up for our Berlin conference, starting in just three short days!! Check out our full conference program, and don't forget to register to attend! globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
- Reposted by Global Urban HistoryI'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk
- Reposted by Global Urban History🗣️ Public lecture On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd
- 🔭 Glimpse the future of Global Urban History 🔭 Join us for the 2024-25 GUHP Emerging Symposia on June 12 and 19, 11-3:30 UTC At these two virtual events this year's cohort of GUHP Emerging scholars will present drafts of their GUHP2 Berlin presentations! More info: tinyurl.com/yr8tfnmz
- Reposted by Global Urban History📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
- Don't miss @mgoebel.bsky.social's talk at Columbia next week (April 10) titled "Petty Capitalists: Race, Migration & Real Estate in 19th-Century Buenos Aires"! Registration: ilas.columbia.edu/events/race-...
- Check out the EAUH Barcelona 2026 call for papers here! Deadline April 15 www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
- Two new additions to the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series just dropped: Ambe J. Njoh's Africa in Urban History and Ian Morley's The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning are free online thru 2/27! www.cambridge.org/core/element... www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Did you get our monthly newsletter? If not, some highlights from this month's "Noteworthy in Global Urban History"...
- And if you have published something new in Global Urban History, or you're hosting a conference, workshop, or event --we'd like our members to know! Email us with the details: communications at globalurbanhistory.org
- Reposted by Global Urban History📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView ⚡ Chenxiao Li, 'The rise and fall of Japan’s municipal electricity regulation, 1889–1939' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistoryTitlea
- The latest @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element in Global Urban History is out. Congratulations to Maria-Aparecida Lopes and Maria Cecilia Zuleta. More info on the blog will follow soon.
- Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City. I'm delighted to announce the latest addition to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History, by Maria-Aparecida Lopes and Maria Cecilia Zuleta. As usual, free downloads in the coming days here: n9.cl/5vl76
- Recently published: Cyrus Schayegh's introduction to the Urban History special issue on Empire and Cities (a fruit of GUHP's working group on Cities, Empires, and Their Discontents) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
