Guidelines for Participants and Authors
EAUH 2024 (Ostrava, Czechia) – Call for Papers
Start of paper proposals submission: June 26, 2023
Deadline: October 20, 2023
Paper submissions are accepted only within Registration Template. The completed template should then be sent to the exact session you have selected (Main Sessions, Specialist Sessions, Round Tables). A list of individual sessions and contacts can be found below.
The file must be named as follows: Main Session, Specialist Session of Round Table number, hyphen, surname.
Example: MS1-Kocourek / S10-Kocourek etc.
Please note that you must send your submissions directly to the contacts for each session. However, always include the official email in your email copy - this is necessary.
Each session is headed by a session chair/organizer who chairs the session - including a brief introduction of the main objective of the session, a brief introduction of each of the speakers, management of the time schedule, leading the discussion and summary.
Main Session
Sessions will consist of 6-8 papers, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. Each paper should be limited to a 10-15-minute presentation. Abstracts for presentations should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in nature.
Length: 2 timeslots (approx. 3 hours -2x 1.5 hours)
Specialist Session
Sessions will consist of 3-4 papers, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. Each paper should be limited to a 10-15-minute presentation. Abstracts for presentations should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in nature.
Length: 1 timeslot (approx. 1.5 hours)
Round Tables
Round tables will consist of debate and discussion among chair(s) and present participants. Maximal number of participants is set for 8. Each discussant will have 5-10 minutes to present a position. Abstracts for round table debates should summarize the position to be taken in the discussion.
Length: 1 timeslot (approx. 1.5 hours)
Important final information
Notification of the paper acceptance/non-acceptance is set for December 1, 2023. Session chairs/organizers have the right to request modifications to submitted paper proposals.
Session list and contacts
MAIN SESSIONS
M1
Between Castile and Portugal, between the Iberian Peninsula and America: trade relations on border cities (13th-17th centuries)
M2
Cities and Catastrophe: The Urban Response (LONGUE DURÉE)
M3
Interrogating Historical Value: A Place for People and the Past in Urban Heritage Conservation
M5
Houses, households, and housing conditions in the Early Modern town
M6
Making inner urban boundaries
M7
Migration Beyond Mobility: Global Urban Histories of Affect
M11
Borders Infrastructures and Places in the Modern City
M12
Migrant Cities and Urban courts in a Global World, 1600-1900
M13
Between Unity and Diversity: Writing the History of the Late-Modern City
M14
Global dreams, local realities: Urban spatial transformations under the influence of globalization flows between 1400-2000
M15
Museums and the City. How did cities shape the modern museum and vice versa (ca. 1750-1950)
M18
Nature in cities: planning for difference & re/defining borders
M19
Troubled Cities: Dissolved, Sharpened, and Shifted Boundaries since the 20th century
M20
Maritime cities at the boundaries: governance, intervention and agency at sea in Late Medieval Western Europe (13th-15th centuries)
M21
Urban welfare regimes in the North, 1500–2024
M22
Disruptions of Urban Infrastructure in the Second Half of the 20th Century
M26
Imaginary vs. real: Towns on the border and borders in towns
M27
Sonic Boundaries. Sound, listening and the delineation of urban geographies and communities since 1500
M28
Historicizing sacrifice zones: urban metabolism, informal urbanization, and the socio-environmental limits of Ibero-American cities (1850s-1970s)
M29
„Mediterranean boundaries“ in the history of the European cities from the 15th to the 18th century
M30
Beyond the Boundary: Women in Urbanism
M32
Cities and the Environment under Twentieth Century Authoritarian Regimes
M33
Reinventing the urban past, c. 1750-2000
M34
Crossing boundaries through (digital) narratives
M35
Informal Housing in 20th-century Europe: origins, transformations, divergences
M36
Housing policies and urban transformations in Europe and beyond as a result of refugee flows in the first half of the 20th century
M38
Where the land meets the sea. Costal towns and cities as nodes of mediation in a global era
M39
Coffee, Cafés, urban commerce and Sociable Substance Use
M40
What's urban about social movements?
M41
Challenges of Urban Recovery: Ukrainian Cities
M42
Urban HGIS and beyond. Exploring the possibilities and limitations of Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) for research in urban history
M43
Pre-Modern Cities: Inequality and the Urban Economy
M44
Pre-Modern Cities: The Urban Space of Difference
SPECIALIST SESSIONS
S1
„Invisible Boundaries“: Urbanism and Identity in Central European Towns and Cities on „Unofficial“ Internal Borders 1918-1989
S2
Pandemics, Society and Ecology in historical urban space
S3
Urban planning and visions of modernity at boundaries of the Late Russian Empire
S6
Urban Complaining and Petitioning – perspectives and methods of investigation
S7
Dynamics of Gender Relations in Pre-modern Urban Economy – Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective
S8
Uncomfortable architectural heritage. Destruction or preservation of memory?
S10
Urban Experience of the First World War in Central Europe
S11
Old Wine in New Bottles? The Resilience of Socialist Approaches in Land Planning Instruments
S13
Nationalizing Cities? Industrial Cities in Multi-Ethnic Central and Eastern European Regions and Their Impact on the Emergence of National Conflicts
S14
Edges at the center. The reinvention of cities at their boundaries.
S15
Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World
S16
Refugees housing evolution in the European countries
S17
‘Liveable cities'. Ranking towns through history
S18
Together alone: A long-term perspective on the rise of solo living in cities and towns
S20
Living at the edge: the form and function of the suburban villa, 1750-1840
S21
Managing and experiencing water, floods and drought in the modern European city (19th-20th centuries)
S22
Tange transnational – Japanese futures for European cities
S23
Awaiting the Attack. Border Towns and Cities in Times of Rising Military Threat in Central and Eastern Europe since the 19th Century
S24
City across the borders – borders across the city
S25
Building codes, morphology, and the appearance of cities
S26
Visual Representations as a Path to Participatory Urban History?
S27
Self-organized Emergency Housing in Postwar Europe
S28
3D Reconstructions of Urban History: Possibilities and Challenges
S29
Border cities in the Öresund-region
S30
(De)constructing Cold War Urban Space Along the Border: the case of Yugoslavia, Italy, and beyond
ROUND TABLES
RT1
What Futures Await European Mass Housing Estates? Reflections on Privatization, Patrimonialization, and Redevelopment in East and West
RT5
Frontiers of interdisciplinarity. Understanding institutional constraints and possibilities in the interdisciplinary field of urban studies
RT6
Black or green city? Searching for identities and transcending the limits of post-industrial settlements in the 21st century
RT7
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 1
RT8
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 2
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