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Conference Sessions

Session 1
Main Session

The Cities that made the Empire: Connectivity and Urban Networks from Late Republican to Imperial Times

Session 2
Main Session

Transportation Networks and Urban Organisation in the Roman Empire: Analysing the backbones of Rome

Session 3
Main Session

Between Institutions and Geography: Cities as Hubs of Medieval and Early Modern River Transport and Trade

Session 4
Specialist Session

Mediterranean and Baltic Medieval Merchant and Urban Networks in contrast

Session 6
Main Session

Premodern European small towns and their networks (1200-1550)

Session 7
Main Session

Moving people: residential mobility and the housing market in European cities (1200-1800)

Session 8
Main Session

Capitals of Capital: Credit Networks and Financial Markets in Europe (13th–18th Centuries)

Session 9
Main Session

Urban consumption and urban networks: Italy and the Southern Low Countries (13th-16th centuries)

Session 10
Main Session

Jewish Networks in Medieval Europe: Urban Interactions and Judeo-Christian Relations in the Development of the City

Session 11
Specialist Session

Inter-Urban Women’s Networks in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Gendered Connections, Legal Frameworks, and Institutional Influence

Session 12
Main Session

Porous walls. Political networks and travelling ideas among cities in Europe, 1200-1800

Session 13
Main Session

Fiscal Source-Based Insights on Short, Medium, and Long-Term Inequality in Urban and Semi-Urban Settlements (Western Europe, 13th-19th centuries)

Session 14
Main Session

Good Governance and Urban Conflict in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe and Beyond (13th-17th Centuries)

Session 15
Main Session

Governing Water: Administrative Responses to Urban Water Management in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (1200-1800)

Session 16
Main Session

Hospitals and cities in Western Europe (1300-1550)

Session 17
Specialist Session

North and South. Strategies for old age in urban contexts during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Session 18
Specialist Session

Consent and Sexual Violence in Late Medieval European Cities

Session 19
Main Session

Cross disciplinary approaches to domestic cultures in premodern cities in Europe and beyond, 13th-17th centuries

Session 20
Specialist Session

Medieval Performances of Urban Space in Europe based on Iures Urbices

Session 21
Specialist Session

The Memory of Cities: Scriptural Practices and Archives in Urban Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Session 22
Main Session

Beyond Centrality: Reassessing Urban Networks and Regional Hierarchies in Europe, 1300–1900

Session 23
Main Session

Quayside and Custom House: Customs Accounts as a Source for Medieval and Early Modern Urban History

Session 25
Specialist Session

Urban networks and inland markets in the expansion of trade flows: the case of the Iberian Peninsula (14th-15th centuries)

Session 26
Specialist Session

The "Other Cities" of the Crown of Aragon: Taxation, Trade, and Market Integration in the Fifteenth-Century Mezzogiorno

Session 27
Specialist Session

Transference of urban models in the Iberian World: Castile and America (1400-1600)

Session 28
Main Session

Ports, maritime communities, and urban life in Europe (15th-19th centuries)

Session 29
Main Session

Feeding European Cities:  Governance, Gender and Sustainability, from 15th century to present

Session 30
Main Session

Dealing with Disaster in Early Modern Cities (15th-19th centuries)

Session 31
Specialist Session

The City Writes Back. Urban spaces and Political Communication in the Spanish Monarchy (15th–18th Centuries)

Session 32
Main Session

Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks

Session 33
Specialist Session

From Chroniclers to Citizen Scientists. The Long-durée of Lay Research in Urban History, 17th – 21st Centuries

Session 34
Main Session

Narrated cityscape: Personally recorded routes versus itinerary guidebooks and travel manuals

Session 35
Round Table

Sound and processional practices in Early Modern Mediterranean cities

Session 36
Specialist Session

Liturgical Streets: Urban Processions and Religious Practices in Iberian Cities (15th–19th Centuries)

Session 37
Specialist Session

Urban networks put to the test of the “glocal”: port cities and globalisation in the modern era, 16th-19th centuries

Session 38
Main Session

Commodities, commerce, and urban network in the pre-modern world and the colonial expansion

Session 39
Main Session

Lodging practices and networks of work, migration, and sociability. Long term perspectives across European cities and beyond (1500-present)

Session 40
Main Session

Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women’s Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities (18th–20th Century)

Session 41
Specialist Session

Migrant labour and the urban construction industry: between opportunity and exploitation (18th-20th centuries)

Session 42
Main Session

Urbanities of Belonging: Emigres from East Central Europe in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities

Session 43
Specialist Session

On Cities and Homeless Youths: All about Histories, Historiographies, Methodologies and Praxes of European Networks

Session 44
Main Session

Urbanisation, policing and crime. The transnational establishment of modern urban police forces, 1789–1989

Session 45
Main Session

Tracing urban inequalities in the past through census data and statistical sources. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Session 46
Main Session

Rethinking modern urban infrastructures in the light of the Anthropocene (19th/20th century)

Session 47
Main Session

Translocal Infrastructures: Rethinking Modernities Across the Global South and Beyond, 19th-21st centuries

Session 49
Main Session

Railways and the consolidation of the urban network in Europe, in the 19th and 20th centuries

Session 50
Main Session

Port Communities in the Urban Context: labour, gender, identities and networks (19th–20th centuries)

Session 51
Specialist Session

Local urban community networks and peripheral modernisation in the modern times (ca. 1850-1939)

Session 52
Specialist Session

Factory gardens and workers' gardens, 18th to 20th centuries

Session 53
Main Session

(Re)discovering the Urban Corner Shop: the Histories of Interaction, Integration and Commercial Variety

Session 54
Main Session

The Networked City: Between Collectivity and Individuality (19th-20th Centuries)

Session 55
Main Session

The Liberal City: Construction, Representation, Politics and Sociability in the Spanish Public and Private Space (1820-1930)

Session 56
Main Session

Infrastruggles and citizenship: Urban public services, 1840–1940

Session 57
Main Session

Knowledge in Interurban Transit: Networks, Actors and Agencies

Session 58
Specialist Session

Urban Planning and local Urban Strategies (1850-2025)

Session 59
Main Session

Epidemics and Cities: Public Prevention, Management and Governability during the European Long 19th Century

Session 60
Main Session

Cities & Corruption in European History, a comparative perspective (1850-present)

Session 61
Main Session

Geopolitics and the spread of Art Nouveau in Europe

Session 62
Main Session

Making Cities Visible. Global Perspectives on Urban Image-Production and -Circulation (19th-20th centuries)

Session 63
Main Session

Changing emotions in changing cities. The emotions of customers and retailers in urbanising and globalising Europe (1850-1950)

Session 64
Main Session

How did cities entertain their guests? Exploring the (dis)connections between tourism and entertainment industries, 1800-2000

Session 65
Main Session

Sexual Metropolitans? Intercity Networks and Shared Cultures of Sexuality in Modern Cities

Session 66
Round Table

Terraform: the interpretation of building as a practice of urbanization in the Anthropocene

Session 67
Main Session

Experiencing transition in modern urbanization

Session 68
Main Session

From the Margins: Reimagining Urban Networks in Europe and Beyond

Session 69
Specialist Session

Crossing urban Planning cultures in time of conflict and reconciliation: views on continental Europe

Session 70
Main Session

Sheltering the Displaced: Housing the ‘Other’ and the Making of the Post-war City

Session 71
Main Session

Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945

Session 72
Specialist Session

Transcribing Urbanistic Networks in Europe: Standardization and Symbolism in Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

Session 73
Main Session

Global Urban Networks Revisited: Transnational Urban Planning in the Cold War Period

Session 74
Round Table

Shaping Global Urbanization: Expert Networks in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Session 75
Specialist Session

Negotiating Nature in the Histories of post-World War II Housing: Policies, Discourses and Practices in Europe and Beyond.

Session 76
Specialist Session

The urban history of socio-ecological trade-offs. Negotiating environmental ‘goods’ and ‘bads’

Session 77
Main Session

Urban movements, participatory spatial practices and the transformation of cities

Session 78
Specialist Session

Ecological Postmodern - Architecture and Urban Design after the Oil Shock

Session 79
Specialist Session

Post-Socialist Deindustrialization and Urban Transformation: Resilience, Adaptation, and Global Comparative Perspectives.

Session 80
Main Session

Images and narratives of post-industrial urban spaces

Session 81
Specialist Session

Downtown Revisited: Neoliberal Urban Planning in Historical Perspective Across Europe and Beyond

Session 83
Main Session

Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in the 20th Century

Session 84
Main Session

Spatializing Popular Music: urban networks of creativity in Europe and Beyond, c. 1930-2000

Session 85
Specialist Session

Jewish City Biographies: Issues, Themes, and the Definition of a Genre

Session 86
Main Session

Networked Emotions: Exploring the Felt Experiences of Urban Places

Session 87
Main Session

Beyond Transcendence. Understanding Networks of Religious Belonging between Local Urban Parishes and Global Institutions since the Turn of the 20th Century.

Session 88
Specialist Session

Urban Heritage and Mental Well-being: Memory, Belonging and City Networks in Modern and Contemporary Cities

Session 89
Specialist Session

Activist knowledge(s) and the city: engaged research and its significance for urban history 

Session 90
Round Table

Writing City Monographs in the 21st Century: Challenges in a Multifaceted World

Session 91
Main Session

Public history at city history museums

Session 92
Round Table

New challenges in reading the city through city museums

Session 93
Round Table

City museums and decolonising networks

Session 94
Main Session

Heritagisation of urban landscapes

Session 95
Main Session

Colonial legacies in public space: commemoralisation, conflict and artistic interventions

Session 96
Round Table

Heritage conflicts and urban identity

Session 97
Main Session

Mapping Urban Complexity: Unveiling Invisible Narratives

Session 99
Event

Digital cartography for the Historic Charter of Barcelona

Session 100
Event

Cambridge Urban History of Europe

Session 101
Event

Clark’s new book, Why Study Small Towns and Cities?

Session 102
General Session

General Session

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