CFP: “Interurban Network between Emerging Cities – Knowledge and Urbanisation in Europe’s Borderlands 1880-1945”, EAUH, 24-27 August 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
We
invite paper proposals for a session entitled
“Interurban
Network between Emerging Cities – Knowledge and Urbanisation in Europe’s
Borderlands 1880-1945”
at the next conference of the
European Association for Urban History in Helsinki, 24-27 August 2016.
Until now the cities of Eastern and
Southern Europe have mainly been looked at through the prism of migration and
institutions of technology transfer (such as universities). Implicitly or
explicitly this suggests a transfer of knowledge and practices from the
“center” to the “periphery” and hence a clear epistemological hierarchy.
The panel proposed by the Herder-Institute
(Germany) and the IMF-CSIC (Spain) would like to question this
assumption. In order to do so we will focus on the exchanges in the areas of
science, technology, medicine and urban planning between the emerging
cities of borderlands such as Southern and Eastern Europe. How did knowledge
but also agents and practices “travel” between emerging national and
regional centers such as Budapest, Tallinn, Lemberg, Lisbon, Athens or
Barcelona?
The question is based on the hypothesis that
these emerging or “second” cities were practical enough to turn to each other
in order to solve the similar problems they were facing in their urban
development. It will be crucial to highlight not only the dialectic interplay
of national visions and desires (of aspiring nation states) and the
internationalization of science and knowledge transfer in the first
globalization around 1900, but also to reconstruct the interurban network that
existed between these European “peripheries”.
Therefore this session will pay special
attention to engineering sciences in the case studies, because they played an
important role in the modernization of the architectural and infrastructural
system of the emerging cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The
goal of this session is thus twofold: it will not only compare these emerging
cities, but also try to exemplify the practices, strategies and agents of the
interurban network.
To submit
a paper proposal, please create a user account on the conference management
system https://eauh2016.net/programme/call-for-papers/
and upload your abstract (max. 300 words) to Session S27. The deadline for
paper proposals is October 31, 2015. We will inform you by
December 15 about the acceptance of your proposal.
Please do
not hesitate to contact us with any query you might have.
Session
S27: “Interurban
Network between Emerging Cities” –
Knowledge
and Urbanisation in Europe’s Borderlands 1880 -1945
European Association for Urban
History
13th International Conference on Urban History
August 24-27, 2016
Helsinki, Finland
https://eauh2016.net/
13th International Conference on Urban History
August 24-27, 2016
Helsinki, Finland
https://eauh2016.net/
Session
Organizers:
Heidi Hein-Kircher/ Eszter Gantner
Herder
Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Marburg,
Germany
Oliver
Hochadel oliver.hochadel@imf.csic.es
Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona
Dr. Oliver Hochadel
Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas
Institució Milà i Fontanals
C/Egipcíaques, 15
08001 Barcelona
Spain
T: +34 93
442 34 89
F: +34 93 443 00 71