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Author: James Lesh

Dr James Lesh is an urban historian and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies. His research explores the theory and practice of heritage conservation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

CFP: First Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT)

Scholars of urban design are invited to present their work at the first Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT). The purpose of SUDHT 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.…

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“CFP: First Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT)”

Call for Sessions: EAUH 2024 Cities at the Boundaries (Ostrava, Czech Republic)

It is a great privilege to inform you that the sixteenth conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic from 4 to 7 September 2024.

In 2024 the theme of the European Association for Urban History Conference is going to be “Cities at the Boundaries”, however the EAUH 2024 Conference will be also open for all topics and research aspects from the field of urban history. …

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“Call for Sessions: EAUH 2024 Cities at the Boundaries (Ostrava, Czech Republic)”

CFP: Exchanges: European Cities and the Wider Urban World CFP: EAUH Online Symposium

European Association for Urban History (EAUH)Online Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS European Association for Urban History (EAUH)  Online Symposium 

Exchanges: European Cities and the Wider Urban World 

One-Day Conference 6 September 2023

https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/eauh/

The EAUH will hold a one-day online symposium focusing on cultural and material exchanges between urban Europe and the wider urban world, extending across all historical periods.…

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“CFP: Exchanges: European Cities and the Wider Urban World CFP: EAUH Online Symposium”

Programme: Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group

The 39th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

The 16th conference of the Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group

School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, 25-27 November 2022

Keynote speaker: We are delighted that Dr Ben Schrader, Victoria University of Wellington’s JD Stout Research Fellow for 2022, will present the keynote address.…

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“Programme: Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group”

GUHP Emerging Scholars Program 2022-2023

The Global Urban History Project (GUHP) invites applications from graduate students and early career scholars in urban history to join one of four research and collaboration workshops affiliated with its continuing program of Dream Conversations in Urban History. 

Selected applicants will participate in a series of events designed to facilitate intellectual engagement, offer feedback on research and writing, and promote peer and professional support.…

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“GUHP Emerging Scholars Program 2022-2023”

Registration Open: Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings Conference, Auckland, 25-27 November 2022

Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings:

A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group

The 39th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

The 16th conference of the Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group

Registration now open: https://uoaevents.eventsair.com/ng-ptahitanga-crossings/npcregportal.…

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“Registration Open: Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings Conference, Auckland, 25-27 November 2022”

CFP: European Association for Urban History 2022 Conference

A new Call for Sessions and a new Call for Papers for the EAUH2022 conference to be held in Antwerp (31 August – 3 September 2022) has opened on 1 May 2021 and will run until 30 October 2021. In this way both the already approved EAUH2021 sessions as new research and new researchers get the opportunity to present their findings or plans to their peers at the conference. …

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“CFP: European Association for Urban History 2022 Conference”

Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey

This article was originally published in The Conversation on 11 May 2020. Read the original article. Republished in Foreground, 12 May 2020.

Jack Mundey, who has died at the age of 90, was a pioneer of the Australian heritage movement. As well as contributing to labor and environmental politics, Mundey reconceived of the ways that Australians related to their cities and heritage places.…

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“Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey”

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