The conference, “Transformations of the Urban: Global Perspectives on the History of Industrial Cities,” will be held April 18-20, 2018 at the German Historical Institute, Moscow (Voroncovskaya str. 8/7). The conference’s keynote speaker will be Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University). … Continue reading
The Second World Urbanity project is proud to announce publication of its first collection of essays, “Second World Urbanity: Infrastructures of Utopia and Really Existing Socialism,” as a special issue of the Journal of Urban History. The essays are presently available … Continue reading
The fourth conference of the Second World Urbanity project was recently held at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. “Ins and Outs of Socialism: Visions and Experiences of Urban Change in the Second World” explored a range of cities … Continue reading
** The deadline for our next conference, “The Ins and Outs of Socialism,” in Lviv is fast approaching (deadline: January 15). Please see the attachment below for more details! The Ins and Outs of Socialism_EN
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
Dear Second World Urbanity Network, We will hold a planning meeting at the upcoming ASEEES conference in Washington, DC, for the Second World Urbanity Primary Source Reader. This project is in its early stages and I solicit your ideas for a … Continue reading
Call for applications The Science and Technology Studies (STS) Center at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia is announcing a call for participation in Digital Traces I: Meta-Morphologies of St. Petersburg summer school that will combine lectures by participating faculty … Continue reading
See the program for this upcoming conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, here and follow the twitter feeds @airportculture and @citiesatSAS. See also the Cities project at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In the … Continue reading
School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London 10 November 2015 9.15am-6pm. Followed by prosecco and canapés. How can scholars working in the framework of East European studies engage with a world of people, objects, ideas and practices … Continue reading
