Stockholms Universitet
European Association for Urban History Stockholm 2006
Address: Stockholm University, Department of History,
  SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Universitetsvägen 10 D, floor 8
Phone: +46 8 16 33 94
Fax: +46 8 16 75 48
e-mail: lars.nilsson@historia.su.se

EAUH Conference 2006

Main Sessions

  1. So close, yet so far away: European and colonial urban transactions, 1415-1776 session info
  2. Animals in the city: historical and theoretical insights session info
  3. Material culture and the city: Continuity and change in consumption and social life in European cities, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century session info
  4. Grands chantiers de la rénovation urbaine: Les expériences italiennes dans leur contexte européen (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) session info
  5. Urban Space, Violence and Crime in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Centuries: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives session info
  6. Frontiers and Identities Within Cities: Intercultural Communication, Jurisdictions, and the Management of Urban Space from the Middle Ages to Modernity session info
  7. Historical Information Systems and the WWW in Urban History (16th to 20th centuries) session info
  8. Urban environmental history session info
  9. Between cousins and kings: civil society or something else in European Cities east and west session info
  10. Changing Political Representation in Changing Urban Spaces: Central and Eastern European Cities from the late 19th Century to the Inter-war Years session info
  11. Architecture and urban space as vehicles for the creation of cosmopolitan cities in the Mediterranean basin: 1450-1920 session info
  12. Confronting Modernity: Religions and the Big City session info
  13. Shapes of selling: the topographical expression of marketing in small European towns in a comparative perspective session info
  14. Representing urbanity. Urban history and ideas about heritage and museums: recent results and plans for the future session info
  15. The Socialist City – Concepts and Realities between Pragmatism and Utopianism session info
  16. Local Governance, Power Relationships and Municipal Politics: The Making of Modern City in Europe session info
  17. Cultural Encounters in Urban Space session info
  18. Early Modern Cultural History of the Street session info
  19. Mourning Urban Change: Testimonies of Disaster and Urban Catastrophe since 1945 session info
  20. Tower and Slab session info

 

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Session info/Main Sessions

1. So close, yet so far away: European and colonial urban transactions, 1415-1776

3 hours

Period: Early Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Prof. Dr. A. Andrade

New University of Lisbon, Department of History, Av. Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal
phone: 00.351.21.7933519
e-mail: dep.historia@ fcsh.unl.pt
e-mail: amelia@esoterica.pt

Dr. C. Antunes

University of Leiden, Department of History, Doelensteeg 16, Postbus 9515, 2300, RA Leiden The Netherlands
phone: 00.31.71.5272735
e-mail: c.a.p.antunes@let.leidenuniv.nl

 

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2. Animals in the city: historical and theoretical insights

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers
Dr P.J. Atkins

Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
phone: +44 (0)191 334 1865
e-mail: p.j.atkins@durham.ac.uk

 
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3. Material culture and the city: Continuity and change in consumption and social life in European cities, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century

3 hours

Period: Medieval/Early modern

Session abstract
Papers

Bruno Blondé

Research Professor, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, B 2000 Antwerp
e-mail: bruno.blonde@ua.ac.be

Natacha Coquery

Maître de conférences à l’Université François-Rabelais (Tours), 15 rue Alfred de Musset F 92240 Malakoff
e-mail: natacha.coquery@wanadoo.fr

Jon Stobart

Reader in historical geography, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB
e-mail: jon.stobart@northampton.ac.uk

 


4. Grands chantiers de la rénovation urbaine: Les expériences italiennes dans leur contexte européen (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)

3 hours

Period: Medieval, Early modern

Session abstract
Papers

Patrick Boucheron

Maître de conférences en histoire du Moyen Âge à l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, membre de l’Institut universitaire de France, Université Paris I/Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 8589, 222 rue La Fayette, 75010 Paris
phone: 01 40 35 68 87; 06 60 37 81 96
e-mail: patrick.boucheron@wanadoo.fr

Marco Folin

Chercheur en histoire de l’architecture à l’Université de Gênes.

e-mail: mafolin@libero.it



5. Urban Space, Violence and Crime in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Centuries: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Prof. Dr. Karl Christian Fuehrer

Forschungsstelle fuer Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg, Schulterblatt 36, D-20357 Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: fuehrer@fzh.uni-hamburg.de

Privatdozent Dr. Klaus Weinhauer

University of Bielefeld, Faculty of History, Postbox 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
e-mail:
klaus.weinhauer@uni-bielefeld.de

 


6. Frontiers and Identities Within Cities: Intercultural Communication, Jurisdictions, and the Management of Urban Space from the Middle Ages to Modernity

4 ½ hours

Period: All periods

Session abstract
Papers

Luda Klusakova

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
e-mail: luda.klusakova@ff.cuni.cz

Jaroslav Miller

Department of History, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
e-mail:
jarousek@hotmail.com

Marjaana Niemi

Department of History, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
e-mail: marjaana.niemi@uta.fi

Richard Rodger

Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
e-mail: rgr@leicester.ac.uk

 



7. Historical Information Systems and the WWW in Urban History (16th to 20th centuries)

3 hours

Period: Early modern/Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Prof. Dr. Kersten Krüger

Universität Rostock, Historisches Institut, D-18051 Rostock
phone: 49 (0) 381 498 2727, Fax 49 (0) 381 498 2720
e-mail: kersten.krueger@uni-rostock.de

PD Dr. Stefan Kroll

Historisches Institut D-18051 Rostock
phone: 49 (0) 381 2709, Fax 49 (0) 381 498 2720
e-mail: stefan.kroll@uni-rostock.de

Ph.D. Søren Bitsch Christensen

Dansk Centre for Urban History, Århus

Prof. Dr. Lars Nilsson

University of Stockholm, Institute of Urban History

 

 



8. Urban environmental history

4 ½ hours

Periods: all periods

Session abstract
Papers

Sven Lilja

phone: +46 8 6084068
e-mail: sven.lilja@historia.su.se



9. Between cousins and kings: civil society or something else in European Cities east and west

3 hours

Period: Early modern/Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Professor R J Morris

Economic and Social History, Edinburgh University, Scotland
e-mail: rjmorris@ed.ac.uk

Denis Bocquet

Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (LATTS), Paris, France
e-mail: denis.bocquet@enpc.fr



10. Changing political representation in changing urban space: Central and Eastern European cities from the late 19th century to the inter-war years

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Dr. Harald Binder

Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine).
e-mail: h.binder@lvivcenter.org



11. Architecture and urban space as vehicles for the creation of cosmopolitan cities in the Mediterranean basin: 1450-1920

3 hours

Period: All periods

Session abstract
Papers

Heleni Porfyriou

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Conservazione e la Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali, Roma, Italy
e-mail: hporfyriou@yahoo.it

Jasenka Gudelj

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
e-mail: jgudelj@ffzg.hr

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12. Confronting Modernity: Religions and the Big City

3 hours

Period: Early Modern/Modern

Session abstract
Papers

PD Dr. Joachim Schlör

Potsdam University, P.O. Box 601553, D-14415 Potsdam
phone: +49-331-2809413
e-mail: schloer@rz.uni-potsdam.de

Dr. des. Bettina Hitzer

Bielefeld University, Dept. of History, P.O.Box 100 131, D-33501 Bielefeld
+49-521-10 63 020
bhitzer@uni-bielefeld.de

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13. Shapes of selling: the topographical expression of marketing in small European towns in a comparative perspective (based on the evidence of the European Historic Town Atlas publications)

3 hours

Period: All periods

Session abstract
Papers

Professor (Emeritus) Anngret Simms

3, Gilford Rd, Sandymount, Dublin 4, Ireland
e-mail: Anngret.Simms@ucd.ie

Professor Howard Clarke

Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
e-mail: Howard.Clarke@ucd.ie

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14. Representing urbanity. Urban history and ideas about heritage and museums: recent results and plans for the future

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Prof. dr. Bert De Munck and Prof. dr. Peter Stabel

University of Antwerp, Centre for Cultural and Urban History, Prinsstraat 13,
BE 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
phone: 32 3 220 4268; 32 3 220 4563
e-mail: Peter.stabel@ua.ac.be; Bert.demunck@ua.ac.be

Dr. Marc Jacobs

Flemish Centre for the Study of Popular Culture, Gallaitstraat 76/2, BE 1030 Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: Marc.Jacobs@vcv.be

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15. The Socialist City– Concepts and Realities between Pragmatism and Utopianism

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Elitza Stanoeva

Centrum für Metropolenforschung, Technische Universität Berlin
e-mail: elitza.stanoeva@metropolitanstudies.de

Nicole Münnich

Centrum für Metropolenforschung, Technische Universität Berlin
e-mail: nicole.muennich@metropolitanstudies.de

Tanja Damljanovic´

State Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Belgrade
e-mail: tanja.damljanovic@yuheritage.com

Vladimir Kulic´

University of Texas at Austin
e-mail: qulic@mail.utexas.edu

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16. Local governance, power relationships and municipal politics: The making of modern city in Europe 1945-2000

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Docent Laura Kolbe

Institute of History, University of Helsinki
e-mail: laura.kolbe@helsinki.fi

Associate Professor, Docent Thord Strömberg

Department of Humanities, Örebro University, Sweden
e-mail: thord.stromberg@hum.oru.se

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17. Cultural Encounters in Urban Space

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Sibel Zandi Sayek

College of William and Mary
e-mail: ssayek@wm.edu

Zeynep Kezer

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
e-mail: zkezer2@unl.edu

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18. Early Modern Cultural History of the Street

3 hours

Period: Early Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Dr. Riitta Laitinen

Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, 20014 Turku. Finland
e-mail: riilai@utu.fi


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19. Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Dr. Maria Raluca Popa

New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Rotterdamseweg 296, 2628 AT Delft, The Netherlands
e-mail: mpopa@nec.ro; ralpopa@yahoo.com

Dr. Valentina Gulin Zrnic

Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Ul. kralja Zvonimira 17,
Zagreb 10 000, Croatia
e-mail: gulin@ief.hr

 


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20. Tower and Slab

3 hours

Period: Modern

Session abstract
Papers

Susanne Stemmler

e-mail: susanne.stemmler@metropolitanstudies.de

Florian Urban

e-mail: furban@mit.edu

 

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