Newsletter #4 (First Anniversary--Prospective Members Edition)
of the Global Urban History Project vol. 1 issue 4, May 14, 2018
Headlines:
First Anniversary Membership Drive
GUHP Conference #2 San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 27-29, 2019
Celebrate GUHP's First Birthday by becoming a full member!
A year ago this week, the Global Urban History Project opened its doors with an invitation asking scholars in the field to join the Project 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; a year later the Project has almost 300 members.
If you have received this edition of the Newsletter, you are a "Prospective Member" of GUHP. We've kept in touch with most of you over the year with news, events, and announcements of books and two major conferences in 2019 (more below). Now we're back with a special invitation to you: help us celebrate GUHP's first birthday by joining officially and adding your profile to our site.
Signing up is still free of charge. It takes a few minutes longer than most other professional organizations because one of the Project's goals is to crowd-source bibliographic references and member interests so we can better document the extent of work of global urban historians across the world.
What do you get in return? The chance to include your own work in a powerful searchable database that allows you and other members to get valuable information on the field and on specialists who share interests with you.
Specifically, by becoming a member, you get access to the "GUHP-site's" "Meet Other Members" networking tool, which allows you to search other members' profiles by numerous categories, including affiliation, the geographical and topical interests that members identify while signing up, and by search terms for thousands bibliographic citations in the field.
Happy birthday to all of you! Join us at the party, and expand your connections within the widening universe of global urban history!
Conference Announcement #2: 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!
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