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GUHP (globalurbanhistory.org) is a meeting place for scholars interested in exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history.
We were delighted that Global Urban Historians from five continents were able to gather at GUHP2 Berlin earlier this month!

Read our conference report and see more photos on our website:
globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
July 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We're gearing up for our Berlin conference, starting in just three short days!!

Check out our full conference program, and don't forget to register to attend!

globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
July 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Don't miss @mgoebel.bsky.social's talk at Columbia next week (April 10) titled "Petty Capitalists: Race, Migration & Real Estate in 19th-Century Buenos Aires"!

Registration: ilas.columbia.edu/events/race-...
March 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Check out the EAUH Barcelona 2026 call for papers here!

Deadline April 15
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Two new additions to the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series just dropped:

Ambe J. Njoh's Africa in Urban History and Ian Morley's The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning are free online thru 2/27!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
And we shared many calls for papers for conferences ranging from the "Urban Humanities Global (Un)Conference 2" to the "Built Ocean EAHN Thematic Conference"
January 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We highlighted upcoming conferences like the "(Un)Freedom in Global Perspective. Actors – Perceptions – Agencies" at the University of Innsbruck and programs like the Urban Research: Theory and Methods Field Training School and the Towards Inclusive Global Histories summer school
January 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We featured not one but *two* new books in the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series:
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City by Maria-Aparecida Lopes and María Cecilia Zuleta
and Globalizing Urban Environmental History by Matthew Vitz
January 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Did you get our monthly newsletter? If not, some highlights from this month's "Noteworthy in Global Urban History"...
January 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM