Call for Papers Conference ‘Comparative Approaches to Illegal Housing across the Globe’ University College London, 22/23 June 2017 Deadline for submission: 6 January 2017 Research on illegal housing is still fragmented. Several factors impede a more systematic approach to the … Continue reading
The Ins and Outs of Socialism: Visions and Experiences of Urban Change in the Second World August 25-27, 2017 Center for Urban History / Lviv / Ukraine the-ins-and-outs-of-socialism-en This conference aims at bringing together scholars who study different time periods … Continue reading
The controversies and legacy of the last three decades of the Soviet Union prior to perestroika have not rendered a simple overarching theory. The Tallinn Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies will bring together leading scholars and PhD students who are … Continue reading
We write to inform you about “Mapping Visaginas: An International Summer School on Sources of Urbanity in Post-Industrial Cities” that we are organising in Visaginas, the satellite town of a former nuclear power plant in north-eastern Lithuania, from 20 Sept – … Continue reading
The Housing Question Nomad Seminar – San Diego University of San Diego March 12-13, 2015 Keynote Talk March 12, 2015 at 6:30pm Reinhold Martin, Associate Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University, and Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World Birkbeck College, University of London February 6-7, 2015 Sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Call for Papers In May … Continue reading
Epistemologies of In-Betweenness: East Central Europe and the World History of Social Science, 1890-1945 Workshop Institut für Ost- und Südeuropaforschung Regensburg 29-30 May, 2015 Call for Papers Convenors: Katherine Lebow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research; Małgorzata Mazurek, Department of History, … Continue reading
See the call for papers attached below for the conference, “Cities of a New Type: New Industrial Cities in Popular Democracies after 1945,” to be held in Dunaújváros, May 21-22, 2015. The conference will explore the transnational history of new … Continue reading
