Newsletter # 3
of the Global Urban History Project, volume 1 issue 3 January 8, 2017
A New Year's Update and An Announcement
Happy 2018 to all GUHP members and prospective members. Our community of member-scholars in Global Urban History has grown beyond the 250 mark! If you have been waiting to sign up we welcome you to join us. Membership is still free of charge--we just ask that you provide us with citations to your work in the field and some information about your interests so that we can continue our efforts to document the breadth and depth of this exciting hybrid field.
#1 Update on Progress on GUHP's Roundtables Around the World
The first stop on our Roundtables Around the World series occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in October 2017, when several founding members of GUHP, joined by recent University of Chicago PhD Emilio de Antuñano Villareal led a discussion of the Project with a large audience at the biannual conference of the Society for American and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). You can watch this event on GUHP VIDS, the Project's new you-tube channel (more below).
In November/December, under the leadership of Kristin Stapleton (University at Buffalo) and Carola Hein (Technical University Delft) GUHP conducted our first-ever Call for Papers, for panels that the Project plans to co-sponsor at the International Planning History conference in July 2018 in Yokohama, Japan. The call far exceeded our expectations. As soon as the IPHS conference committee makes decisions on the final program we will make as separate announcement about these panels.
In the meantime, we are looking forward to the second stop on the journey, a panel on Global Urban History co-sponsored by the Urban History Association (UHA) at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in Sacramento California in April. Look out for reminders about this event soon as well as about the final stop on the Tour which occur in August/September 2018 at the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) conference in Rome.
#2 You can now subscribe to GUHP VIDS, the Project's new You-Tube channel.
Thanks to the efforts of our fearless editor Guangzhi Huang, there is now a You-Tube channel dedicated to GUHP events. Those of you who could not be in Cleveland this Fall can now view the GUHP / SACRPH Roundtable in its entirety on the channel. GUHP Coordinator Carl Nightingale introduces panelists Emma Hart (St. Andrew's University), Mariana Dantas (Ohio University), Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin), Emilio Antuñano Villareal (University of Chicago), and Nancy Kwak (University of California San Diego), who then field questions from the audience.
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