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Japan’s Old Enough and Australia’s Bluey remind us our kids are no longer ‘free range’ – but we can remake our neighbourhoods

Rebecca Clements, University of Sydney; Elizabeth Taylor, Monash University, and Hulya Gilbert, La Trobe University

In the popular Japanese TV series Old Enough, very young children are sent out into their neighbourhood on their first solo errand. The release of this long-running series on Netflix this year created a buzz among Western viewers about children travelling around their neighbourhoods on their own when only two to four years old.…

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“Japan’s Old Enough and Australia’s Bluey remind us our kids are no longer ‘free range’ – but we can remake our neighbourhoods”

CFP: Urban History Association Conference 2023

Urban History Association Conference 2023

UHA Tenth Biennial Conference: Reparations & the Right to the City

Pittsburgh, PA October 26-29, 2023

Conference Theme: Reparations & the Right to the CityThe conference theme is “Reparations & the Right to the City”. It not only responds to increasing global calls for restorative justice and rights to the city for all, it also aims to set and reset the role and mission of Urban History at present and into the future as an intensely interdisciplinary and transnational enterprise focusing on all aspects of metropolitan, urban, and suburban history.…

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Event: UNREALISED SYDNEY TALK: MORE AND BEFORE

Wednesday 14 September 2022 6pm–7.30pm

Museum of SydneyCorner Phillip and Bridge StreetsSydney NSW 2000P: 02 9251 5988

Discover incredible unrealised visions for the city of Sydney in an insightful talk by Robert Freestone, a Professor of Planning at UNSW and guest curator of the Unrealised Sydney exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.…

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“Event: UNREALISED SYDNEY TALK: MORE AND BEFORE”

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”

Shanty towns and eviction riots: the radical history of Australia’s property market

A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, 1932. NLA/Trove

Helen Dinmore, University of South Australia

Skyrocketing property prices and an impossible rental market have seen growing numbers of Australians struggling to find a place to live.…

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“Shanty towns and eviction riots: the radical history of Australia’s property market”

Tapping into Aboriginal knowledge to create a water-resilient future for Australia’s cities

The Yarragadee is an underground aquifer beneath the Perth metropolitan area. Laying in thick layers of sand and porous rock, the youngest water in the aquifer is about 600 years old, the oldest more than 35,000.The Whadjuk Noongar people believe the deepest aquifer is home to the spirit of the Waugal, or rainbow serpent.…

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“Tapping into Aboriginal knowledge to create a water-resilient future for Australia’s cities”

Joint SAHANZ and UHPHG 2022 Conference

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

For additional information, see https://www.hthub.ac.nz/sahanz-uhph-nov-2022/.…

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“Joint SAHANZ and UHPHG 2022 Conference”

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