We are excited to announce that the 2025 edition of the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT) will be held at the University at Buffalo, New York! The Call for Papers is open now. The purpose of the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory is to create a forum for those whose scholarship relates to urban design to present and discuss their research, engage in fruitful conversation and debate, and form a community based on shared interests. … Continue reading...
Please find here a link to the UHPH2024 registration page.
The registration page now includes an option to register for the conference dinner, which will be at Thai Pothong in Newtown. Thai Potong caters well for most dietary restrictions.
Finally, there are two tour options, both scheduled for the morning of Thursday 11th of July, beginning at 10am.… Continue reading...
The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is seeking applications from prospective PhD candidates to join a multi-disciplinary research project investigating the history of private property ownership in Australia. A PhD scholarship is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC, DP240100395) for research that will generate new knowledge of settler-colonial property creation from 1788 onwards.… Continue reading...
Dr Ben Schrader (19 July 1964 – 19 April 2024) is warmly remembered by the Australasian Urban History Planning History (AUHPH) Group. He passed away after last month.
Since the 1990s, Ben had actively participated in conferences of the AUHPH Group. He delivered keynotes on the New Zealand heritage movement at the 2018 conference at RMIT in Melbourne and on the New Zealand city at the 2022 conference at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau.… Continue reading...
The UHPH2024 conference organising committee is delighted to announce our line-up of keynote speakers:
Simon Barber Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) and the Grammar of Private Property
Robert Freestone Imagining and contesting planned urban futures: The legacies and lessons of an unbuilt Sydney
Julie McIntyre
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Simon Barber (Kāi Tahu) is a lecturer in Sociology at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago.… Continue reading...
The 2024 UHPH Conference will offer bursaries of up to A$750 to support support the travel of two PhD students whose papers have been accepted for delivery at the Conference. Successful applicants will also be exempt from the costs of registration.… Continue reading...
UHPH 2024, University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024
Plan for Sydney (1948), by Reg Thornton. Source: State Library of NSWIn the cities of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily life, structuring the economy and the environment.… Continue reading...
On behalf of James Lesh, Anna Temby, Cameron Logan and Robert Freestone, thank you to our postgraduate students, session respondents, keynote speaker Lisa Murray and public audience for the successful AUHPH Group Postgraduate Symposium on 22 September 2023.
The AUHPH Group is committed to fostering postgraduate urban and planning historians and we hope to repeat this symposium in future years.… Continue reading...
On behalf of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) you are invited to submit a paper or panel proposal for the forthcoming 20th Biennial Conference, to be held in mid-2024 in at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.General information about the 2024 Hong Kong event can be found at the website https://iphs2024.cuhk.edu.hk,… Continue reading...
The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand is inviting nominations for the 2023 S. J. Butlin Prize for best Masters or PhD thesis in Australian or New Zealand economic history, awarded in calendar years 2020, 2021 or 2022. The applied definition of ‘economic’ is broad, encompassing business history and labour history, as well as more cross-disciplinary work in fields such as environmental history, urban history, agricultural history, political history. … Continue reading...