Global Urban History

Twitter account of the Global Urban History Blog and the Global Urban History Project (GUHP).
Find us @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

🤫 We're shifting to @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social, follow us over there!

[Leandro Benmergui @leanbenmergui]

My book review of Ana María León’s Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires, is now available / Hispanic American Historical Review’s latest issue (2023) 103 (3). https://t.co/JV4lg5VxAL.
Happy to share copies.

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

"Globalizing Urban Environmental History" can be read here: https://t.co/4caGyR5KrT

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

Congratulations to Matthew Vitz on the publication of "Globalizing Urban Environmental History," a part of the Elements in Global Urban History series! 🎉

Read our interview with him here: https://t.co/E198QtM7F9

His Element is available for free online until December 20!

[Frederic Kaplan @frederickaplan]

Today, we launch "H".
You can read it online or order the print version for free.
https://t.co/WFvKKBJK8A

“H” is first and foremost about the future of the Humanities. And, specifically for this first edition, H refers to two major cross-disciplinary transformations in the field of knowledge: "Hyperscience" and "Hyperreality".

"Hyperscience". Over the next twenty years, a hyperscientific core of unified methods and knowledge will undoubtedly emerge, including the humanities and social sciences, and with research into the “science of science”. Transdisciplinarity is becoming the norm rather than the exception, recomposing a fluid and continuous knowledge landscape far removed from the old silos, forging a fertile ground for innovation and discovery.

“Hyperreality”. At the same time, we are entering the regime of “Hyperreality”, a territory in which the boundaries between the real and the virtual, documentary and fiction, are blurring. Hyperreality is characterized by the gradual obsolescence of truth and falsity as foundational concepts of discourse, a continuum between the natural and the artificial, a normalization of simulation as an experience of the world, and a new realm of creative expression, a canvas onto which the future can be painted.

The generation born at the dawn of the year 2000 is the one that is experiencing these two convergences. If they are introduced to these new dynamics early enough, they will not only participate in the existing global game; they may well rewrite its rules.

You can read my full interview about H here : https://t.co/GkOFaZcovm

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

Congratulations to Rosemary Wakeman on the publication of her new book, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" 🎉

Read our recent interview with her on our blog: https://t.co/hZsxUvEJj2

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

Density and Differentiation: Cities in Global Social History https://t.co/qTPDXKAGKG Our co-founder Michael Goebel argues for greater attention to the spatiality and to the built environment of class formation in global history.

[Tehila Sasson @TehilaSasson]

The Bodleian has opened its visiting fellowships for this year @bodleianlibs

https://t.co/BHLu4sFInj

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

🚨Important update for GUHP2 Berlin proposals🚨

If you submitted your proposal *before* October 11 -- you need to RESUBMIT

[Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns1]

As Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Co of Phila, I am thrilled to post the CFP for a conference, BLACK PHILA, that I am organizing with 1838 Black Metropolis & McNeil Center at Penn. Please distribute widely: https://t.co/Mz0m1khmYF

[Neb. History Dept. @UNLHistory]

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Ermus, whose book "The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" was awarded the Urban History Association's Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize!

Read more: https://t.co/AumYGKi9B9

@unlcas @urbanhistorya

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

CfP: From Glory… to Grave?: “Dead Cities” throughout Time and Space

"Dead cities, ghost towns, zombie neighborhoods—death has structured how we understand historic and contemporary urban environments across cultural contexts..."

Deadline: Sept 15

https://t.co/AZDODGmn3O

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

Coming to our conference in Berlin? Apply for the 2024-25 GUHP Emerging Scholars cohort!

The mentorship program is for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent scholars and adjunct or tenure track faculty up to 3 years past their degree.

🔗https://t.co/VyYVOpTupy

[Urban History @UrbanHistoryCUP]

📢 We're looking for a new Modern Global Urban History Editor to join the @UrbanHistoryCUP team!

❓ If you've got any questions about the role, incl. the hororarium, please email Prof Roey Sweet (address in the ad)

🗓️ 5pm BST on Wednesday 31 July.

🔗 https://t.co/KSeFBNNsy7

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

Job opening: Communication Assistant (50%) in Global History @FU_Berlin: Deadline for applications July 22: https://t.co/lC0axWqown

[Red Colombiana Historia Urbana @urbana_historia]

La red Colombiana de #HistoriaUrbana realizará su VII Encuentro en la ciudad de #Sincelejo del 31 de octubre al 2 de noviembre del 2024.

¡L@s invitamos a participar!

Para mayor información consulta nuestra web: https://t.co/ctyKPos4Dz

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

📢 We're thrilled to announce the call for panel and paper proposals for our 2025 conference in Berlin, "Stretching the Limits of Global Urban History!"

You can find all the details on our website: https://t.co/8Gas3yLd13

We look forward to reading your proposals!

[Global Urban History @urbanhist]

You can now check out the recording of the final installment of our Narrating Urban Lives series, "Critical Temporalities," on YouTube!

Featuring Dipesh Chakrabarty and Stefanos Geroulanos in a conversation moderated by Rosemary Wakeman!

https://t.co/Sk9izRxjIG

[Stephenlegg @Stephenlegg11]

Great to be part of this roundtable, building upon @urbanhist “Cities, Empires, and Their Discontents” working group online seminars. They got us through and out of lockdown, and to the @UrbanHistoryCUP 50th Anniversary Conference last year. More papers coming...

[Urban History @UrbanHistoryCUP]

📢 Calling all Modern Global Urban Historians 📢

We're looking for a new Modern Global Urban History Editor to join the @UrbanHistoryCUP team.

Submit your application by 5pm BST on Wednesday 31 July.

Details 👉 https://t.co/JbcKlqslEj