Newsletter #4 (First Anniversary Edition)
of the Global Urban History Project vol. 1 issue 4, May 14, 2018
Headlines:
GUHP Conference #2 San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 27-29, 2019
Celebrate the GUHP-Website's First Birthday
GUHP at the WHA San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 27-29, 2018
The year 2019 will be a banner year for global urban historians. Over the last few months, GUHP took the lead in organizing two collaborative conferences for next year, both dedicated to serious, sustained discussions at the crossroads of global history and urban history.
The first, which you heard about a few weeks ago, is the conference at the Centre for Urban History in Leicester, UK on July 11-12, 2019. The Call for Papers for this conference has been posted on the GUHP website for some time.
Now we are pleased to announce the second of these two events, which will take place a few weeks earlier, June 27-29, 2019, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Annual Meeting of the World History Association. GUHP will co-organize these meetings as a Joint Conference.
The Call for Papers for WHA/GUHP San Juan is now also available on the GUHP site. Conference Themes are "Cities in Global Contexts" and "The Caribbean as Crossroads." WHA President Merry Wiesner-Hanks notes that the WHA will handle proposals for this event on their website beginning later in the summer, but she urges you to get started planning your panels and presentations now..
A quick search at GUHP's "Meet Other Members" page (more about this below) makes clear that a large group of us work at the intersections of these two conference themes, on the hemispheric Americas more generally, and the Atlantic World, all pursuits for which the conference setting in San Juan provides an especially appropriate setting.
Naturally, we welcome panels and papers from across the world for either the San Juan or the Leicester conferences. Or, if you are feeling truly "hard-core," we'll see you at both installments of this traveling festival of global urban history!
On behalf of both program committees, we look forward to your ideas!
Celebrate the GUHP-Site's First Birthday!
A year ago this week, the Global Urban History Project opened its doors with a modest invitation asking scholars in the field to join as members. It became clear very quickly that the Global Urban History is a "thing." Within a few weeks over 150 scholars took time to upload profiles about their work, and a year later the Project has almost 300 members.
Help celebrate the "GUHP-Site's" first birthday by 1) renewing your membership (many of you have already received requests to do so--renewal remains free of charge), 2) updating information in your profile, and 3) spending some time exploring the site's most powerful feature, the "Meet other Members" networking tool.
It is very easy to use the tool to network with other GUHP members anywhere in the world. Just log on, click on "Meet Other Members" and then click on the command to "show Search Box."
The Search Box will appear...
... allowing you to search member profiles by numerous categories, including affiliation, the geographical and topical interests that members identified while signing up, and search terms in the text of members' biographies and bibliographies.
Happy birthday to all of you! Enjoy the party, don't be shy about "mixing" with your fellow GUHP members, and expand your connections within the widening universe of global urban history!
But remember--the GUHP site is most valuable for all members if you keep your own profile up to date!
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