Vol. 42, April 2023
Have you published something new in Global Urban History? Are you hosting a conference, workshop, or event? We'd like our members to know!
GUHP is a member-supported organization.
| GUHP Essay Prizes for Emerging Scholars
Up to three GUHP Essay Prizes will be awarded annually to early-career scholars for unpublished essays associated with graduate and post-graduate work in the field of Global Urban History. Eligible applicants should be GUHP members and can include graduate students, post-graduate scholars not in a tenure-track position, or early career scholars in the first three years of a tenure track position at the time of submission. Scholars who work at institutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are especially encouraged to apply, as are scholars who work on periods before 1850.
Essays must be no longer than 8,000 words in English inclusive of citations, be based on original research, contain full citations to archival and relevant secondary sources, and engage with critical themes in global urban history. Essay topics can include studies of cities as creations and creators of larger-scale historical phenomena of all kinds - from empires and capitalism to global cultural communities and ecosystems; of connective, cross-border, ocean-, river- or borderland urban history; of comparative or connective urban histories; of urban environmental history; and/or studies that in general expand historical research to cities and urban regions that are underrepresented in the current urban historical literature.[more]
Application deadline: September 29, 2023 | New on GUHP Vids!
GUHP Meets UTA-Do: Theory, History, and Global South Urban Challenges
Hosts
Carl Nightingale and Kenny Cupers (GUHP)
Wangui Kimari (UTA-Do)
Primary Presenter
Kanishka Goonewardena
| | Upcoming GUHP Virtual Events
Dream Conversation on Cities, Empires, and (Dis)Contents paper presentations
May 4, 2023, 11:00 UTC
- Dries Lyna: “Institutional(ized) Inequality? Access to Justice in Cities across VOC Asia”
Mohd Aquil: Medical panics and the restructuring of urban spaces in Colonial North India
- Taoyu Yang: “Multi-Imperial Entanglements and Spatial Configuration in Treaty-Port Tianjin, 1860s-1940s”
|  | | Related Network Event Spotlight
Urban History Association
From Dissertation to Book, and Everything in Between: A Discussion on Academic Writing
Zoom, April 21, 2023, 12 p.m. ET
This event features Andra Chastain and Adrián Lerner Patrón, both recent winners of the UHA Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History. They will discuss their successes and struggles at crucial stages in the dissertation process, from framing the question, conducting the research, finding funding, getting it written, and defending it, to the reworking and publishing process that happens once you graduate.[more]
| | Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City
By Abdelmajid Hannoum
(Princeton University Press, 2020)
Based on extensive fieldwork, Living Tangier examines the dynamics of transnational migration in a major city of the Global South and studies African “illegal” migration to Europe and European “legal” migration to Morocco, looking at the itineraries of Europeans, West Africans, and Moroccan children and youth, their strategies for crossing, their motivations, their dreams, their hopes, and their everyday experiences.[more]
| | | | Colonial Domesticity and the Modern City: Bandung in the Early Twentieth-Century Netherlands Indies
By Farabi Fakih
Journal of Urban History, May 2023
The article shows that the expansion of modern colonial cities in the first half of twentieth-century Netherlands Indies was a result of changing colonial domesticity. The rise of European families along with the modernized middle-class Indonesian and Indonesian-Chinese families opened the market for a new kind of urban living space. Decentralization of municipalities made possible stronger relationship between local government and city boosters, who had connection with the real estate and tourism industries. This changing class and economic relations in the city resulted in the formation of an urban institution that linked local governance, the real estate industry, and the production of urban colonial imaginaries that were modern and predicated on a fetish of white, European urban spaces.[more]
| | | | Beyond Colonial Urbanism: State Power, Global Connections and Fragmented Land Regimes in Twentieth-Century Hyderabad City
By Eric Lewis Beverley
Urban History, Online First, December 9, 2022
Urban histories of modern South Asia have centered on British Indian cities and the reign of colonial urbanism, with dependence on metropolitan imperatives and models regarded as givens. Focusing on Hyderabad, one of the subcontinent's five largest cities and capital of an autonomous princely state throughout the colonial era, this article establishes the analytical utility of princely urbanism as a framework for writing the history of South Asian cities.[more] | | | Conferences, Workshops, and Events |  | | European Network in Universal and Global History Summer School: Global History in the 2020s
Leiden University, June 27-29, 2023; applications due April 21, 2023
Global History has become a much-debated field. Is it about globalisation, is it a method, a subject matter, all of the above? Over the last two decades global historians have outlined topics and approaches that set the foundations for a transforming field. Transcending national frameworks, challenging Eurocentric narratives and tracing border-crossing connections and interactions between societies, communities and individuals, as well as decentred comparisons are some of its common denominators that have gained substance through particular case studies. As the field moves towards the end of its second decade, we want to bring together a next generation of global historians and interrogate what are the purposes, possibilities, limits of global history? Doctoral researchers who explore global, transregional and transnational perspectives in their dissertations are key for forming these avenues and for reflecting on the related conceptual debates and socio-political conditions of writing world and global histories.[more]
| | | | AHA Digital Drop-In
Zoom, April 28, 2023, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT
Want to get started on a digital humanities project? Is there a problem related to your in-progress project that you want to talk through with an expert? The AHA Digital History Working Group’s Digital Drop-In features a panel of experienced digital humanists ready to help! Join Kalani Craig (Indiana Univ.), Jeff McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), and other members of the Indiana University Institute for Digital Humanities and Art.[more]
| | | | Refugee Cities: Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement
Columbia University, April 27-28, 2023
The Refugee Cities Working Group’s concerns lie at the intersection of urban studies on the one hand and, on the other, the humanistic and social justice-oriented study of the mass movement of people fleeing violence, war and forced removal. This symposium will focus on the impact of refugees on cities and urban processes, both in the present moment and as a historical phenomenon. A keynote lecture will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 27, with all other presentations scheduled throughout the day on Friday, April 28.[more]
| | | | SACRPH Virtual Roundtable: Teaching Urban, Planning, and Architectural History in a Professional School
Zoom, May 8, 2023
Historians of cities and the built environment are often trained, and can be found teaching in, humanities departments such as history or art history. Equally often, however, they teach students pursuing a range of professional degrees—from city planning to architecture, public policy, education, and public health (among others). In this roundtable, a range of scholars who teach history in professional schools will reflect upon their experiences. In particular, they will consider the routes to arriving at such faculty positions, pedagogical decisions they have made in the classroom, the impact of a professional school setting upon their own research, and take-aways beyond the professional school classroom alone.[more]
| | | | Worlds Apart? Futures of Global History International Conference
Vienna, Austria, May 25-26, 2023
Taking recent criticism of global history as a starting point, the event seeks to discuss the future pathways of global history. Where is the field of global history headed and how can a more decentralized and diverse practice be achieved? What methods, narratives, and historiographical traditions need to be included to open the field to a broader range of scholars? What does a fairer global history look like?[more]
| | | | Preliminary Schedule of Book Panels at Lagos Studies Association Conference
University of Lagos/Zoom, June 20-24, 2023
The LSA is has released the preliminary schedule of book panels at the 7th edition of its annual conference. All 120 sessions of the conference, including the book panels, will be accessible, free of charge, to all audience attending physically at the University of Lagos and virtually across the world. Book panels will be held between June 22-24.From African literature, film, religion, and history, to diaspora, digital culture, visual art, and urban, gender, and feminist studies, twenty-one book panels will celebrate the achievements of scholars, while also engaging with ideas in all their divergent manifestations.[more]
| | |  | | EUI Summer School in Global and Transnational History: Whose global history? Perspectives from the Global South and Beyond
Online, September 11-13, 2023; applications due May 3, 2023
Over the past two decades the field of Global History has become firmly embedded within the historical discipline. However, it has been less successful in moving beyond a Euro-American institutional rootedness and intellectual orientation. Critics have pointed to the Eurocentricity of its conceptual frameworks; the dominance of Anglophone scholarship produced by Global North-based researchers and presses; and the marginalization of actors, concepts, and perspectives originating in the Global South. Taking these criticisms as a point of departure, this summer school seeks to question what Global History is primarily about, who it is written by, and who it is written for. By questioning the epistemic inequalities and exclusionary processes that shape the field, and considering actors, conceptual tools and historical positions that originate from different parts of the world, we aim to outline a global history that is meaningfully shaped by perspectives from the Global South.[more] | | | Calls for Papers & Proposals | CFP: Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues
Hong Kong, June 15-16, 2023
The conference aims to explore the emerging scholarship on many aspects of maritime heritage and culture in the public sphere and work towards new partnerships and collaborations, resulting in the development of ideas leading to tangible public history outcomes.[more]
Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2023
| CFP: African Critical Inquiry Program Workshop
University of the Western Cape, 2024
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2024. The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) seeks to advance inquiry and debate about the roles and practice of public culture, public cultural institutions, and public scholarship in shaping identities and society in Africa.[more]
Deadline for proposals: May 1, 2023
| CFP: Mapping and Making Place in the French Empire
H-France Salon seeks contributions for a thematic volume examining the role of cartography and place-making in French imperial-colonial endeavors. Recent scholarship has considered the role of built environments, map making, and the environment itself in the formation, expansion, and formalization of imperial and colonial regimes. Historians of the French Empire, in particular, have considered the physical and epistemological construction of empire and colonial systems through place-making strategies that range from geographical surveying, map-making, border negotiations, the construction or re-construction of cities, as well as the establishment of certain railway and road systems. Similarly, greater attention has been paid to the ways that indigenous communities pushed against French endeavors, shaped place-making, or developed alternatives to imperial-colonial places and policies. Such work speaks across disciplines and connect scholars working in a variety of fields, time periods, and geographies, allowing for innovative examinations of the topic.[more]
Deadline for proposals: May 1, 2023
| CFP: Associazione Italian di Storia Urbana, Beyond the Gaze: Interpreting and Understanding the City
Ferrara, September 13-16, 2023
The 11th International AISU Congress calls for reflections and comparisons that go beyond the gaze, to try instead to interpret urban phenomena in terms of "complexity," "fluidity," and "coexistence" in all the multiple aspects of the city in the history of its being and becoming; aspects that are different and sometimes interpenetrating with each other. Going beyond the gaze, also means overcoming social and cultural barriers, exploring conditions of inequality and hidden, subterranean or elusive places, declining the city under the microscope and at the same time looking at it through a broad perspective.[more]
Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2023
| CFP: Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association
Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL), September 22-23, 2023
The Midwest World History Association is pleased to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois on September 22-23, 2022. The conference theme is “Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Histories of Others and Othering.” This theme builds off of last year’s “Difficult Histories” by highlighting the histories of and by those who have been othered. As many political leaders move to “shield people from feeling ‘discomfort’ over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender,” this theme is intended to invite presentations and discussions on how world historians at all levels – high school, community college, or university - can best create spaces within which to explore, share, teach and learn about contested topics.[more]
Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2023
| CFP: AHA Perspectives articles on “urbanism and rurality”
The American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History seeks pitches for articles or other short-form writing related to urbanism and rurality for its 2023-2024 issues.[more] | Fellowships, Grants, & Awards | | Funded Book Workshops
Royal Historical Society, 2023-2024
Awards will support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops will enable an author to bring together fellow scholars to discuss and develop the manuscript of a scholarly monograph. Must be a member of the Society.[more]
Application deadline: June 12, 2023
| | | | CFA: International Fellowships
Urban Studies Foundation
Applications are invited to the USF’s International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Each award will cover the cost of a sabbatical period at a university of the candidate’s choice, worldwide, for the purpose of writing-up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles and/or a book. The proposed work should be completed under the guidance of a chosen mentor in the candidate’s field of study. Funding is available for a period ranging between 3-9 months, and eligible research may cover any theme pertinent to a better understanding of urban realities in the Global South.[more]
Application deadline: June 20, 2023
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