EAUH Conference 2026
«City Networks in Europe and Beyond»
EAUH2026 Sessions
Please note that actual rooms are still to be confirmed and minor schedule changes may occur
Links to Sessions in Program
- Session 1 - The Cities that made the Empire: Connectivity and Urban Networks from Late Republican to Imperial Times
- Session 2 - Transportation Networks and Urban Organisation in the Roman Empire: Analysing the backbones of Rome
- Session 3 - Between Institutions and Geography: Cities as Hubs of Medieval and Early Modern River Transport and Trade
- Session 4 - Mediterranean and Baltic Medieval Merchant and Urban Networks in contrast
- Session 6 - Premodern European small towns and their networks (1200-1550)
- Session 7 - Moving people: residential mobility and the housing market in European cities (1200-1800)
- Session 8 - Capitals of Capital: Credit Networks and Financial Markets in Europe (13th-18th Centuries)
- Session 9 - Urban consumption and urban networks: Italy and the Southern Low Countries (13th-16th centuries)
- Session 10 - Jewish Networks in Medieval Europe: Urban Interactions and Judeo-Christian Relations in the Development of the City
- Session 11 - Inter-Urban Women's Networks in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Gendered Connections, Legal Frameworks, and Institutional Influence
- Session 12 - Porous walls. Political networks and travelling ideas among cities in Europe, 1200-1800
- Session 13 - Fiscal Source-Based Insights on Short, Medium, and Long-Term Inequality in Urban and Semi-Urban Settlements (Western Europe, 13th-19th centuries)
- Session 14 - Good Governance and Urban Conflict in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe and Beyond (13th-17th Centuries)
- Session 15 - Governing Water: Administrative Responses to Urban Water Management in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (1200-1800)
- Session 16 - Hospitals and cities in Western Europe (1300-1550)
- Session 17 - North and South. Strategies for old age in urban contexts during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
- Session 18 - Consent and Sexual Violence in Late Medieval European Cities
- Session 19 - Cross disciplinary approaches to domestic cultures in premodern cities in Europe and beyond, 13th-17th centuries
- Session 20 - Medieval Performances of Urban Space in Europe based on Iures Urbices
- Session 21 - The Memory of Cities: Scriptural Practices and Archives in Urban Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
- Session 22 - Beyond Centrality: Reassessing Urban Networks and Regional Hierarchies in Europe, 1300-1900
- Session 23 - Quayside and Custom House: Customs Accounts as a Source for Medieval and Early Modern Urban History
- Session 24 - Invisible Currencies, Visible Cities: Trust, Information, and Urban Economies in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.
- Session 25 - Urban networks and inland markets in the expansion of trade flows: the case of the Iberian Peninsula (14th-15th centuries)
- Session 26 - The "Other Cities" of the Crown of Aragon: Taxation, Trade, and Market Integration in the Fifteenth-Century Mezzogiorno
- Session 27 - Transference of urban models in the Iberian World: Castile and America (1400-1600)
- Session 28 - Ports, maritime communities, and urban life in Europe (15th-19th centuries)
- Session 29 - Feeding European Cities: Governance, Gender and Sustainability, from 15th century to present
- Session 30 - Dealing with Disaster in Early Modern Cities (15th-19th centuries)
- Session 31 - The City Writes Back. Urban spaces and Political Communication in the Spanish Monarchy (15th-18th Centuries)
- Session 32 - Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks
- Session 33 - From Chroniclers to Citizen Scientists. The Long-durée of Lay Research in Urban History, 17th - 21st Centuries
- Session 34 - Narrated cityscape: Personally recorded routes versus itinerary guidebooks and travel manuals
- Session 35 - Sound and processional practices in Early Modern Mediterranean cities [Round Table]
- Session 36 - Liturgical Streets: Urban Processions and Religious Practices in Iberian Cities (15th-19th Centuries)
- Session 37 - Urban networks put to the test of the "glocal": port cities and globalisation in the modern era, 16th-19th centuries
- Session 38 - Commodities, commerce, and urban network in the pre-modern world and the colonial expansion
- Session 39 - Lodging practices and networks of work, migration, and sociability. Long term perspectives across European cities and beyond (1500-present)
- Session 40 - Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women's Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities (18th-20th Century)
- Session 41 - Migrant labour and the urban construction industry: between opportunity and exploitation (18th-20th centuries)
- Session 42 - Urbanities of Belonging: Emigres from East Central Europe in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities
- Session 43 - On Cities and Homeless Youths: All about Histories, Historiographies, Methodologies and Praxes of European Networks
- Session 44 - Urbanisation, policing and crime. The transnational establishment of modern urban police forces, 1789-1989
- Session 45 - Tracing urban inequalities in the past through census data and statistical sources. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- Session 46 - Rethinking modern urban infrastructures in the light of the Anthropocene (19th/20th century)
- Session 47 - Translocal Infrastructures: Rethinking Modernities Across the Global South and Beyond, 19th-21st centuries
- Session 49 - Railways and the consolidation of the urban network in Europe, in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Session 50 - Port Communities in the Urban Context: labour, gender, identities and networks (19th-20th centuries)
- Session 51 - Local urban community networks and peripheral modernisation in the modern times (ca. 1850-1939)
- Session 52 - Factory gardens and workers' gardens, 18th to 20th centuries
- Session 53 - (Re)discovering the Urban Corner Shop: the Histories of Interaction, Integration and Commerical Variety
- Session 54 - The Networked City: Between Collectivity and Individuality (19th-20th Centuries)
- Session 55 - The Liberal City: Construction, Representation, Politics and Sociability in the Spanish Public and Private Space (1820-1930)
- Session 56 - Infrastruggles and citizenship: Urban public services, 1840-1940
- Session 57 - Knowledge in Interurban Transit: Networks, Actors and Agencies
- Session 58 - Urban Planning and local Urban Strategies (1850-2025)
- Session 59 - Epidemics and Cities: Public Prevention, Management and Governability during the European Long 19th Century
- Session 60 - Cities & Corruption in European History, a comparative perspective (1850-present)
- Session 61 - Geopolitics and the spread of Art Nouveau in Europe
- Session 62 - Making Cities Visible. Global Perspectives on Urban Image-Production and -Circulation (19th-20th centuries)
- Session 63 - Changing emotions in changing cities. The emotions of customers and retailers in urbanising and globalising Europe (1850-1950)
- Session 64 - How did cities entertain their guests? Exploring the (dis)connections between tourism and entertainment industries, 1800-2000
- Session 65 - Sexual Metropolitans? Intercity Networks and Shared Cultures of Sexuality in Modern Cities
- Session 66 - Terraform: the interpretation of building as a practice of urbanization in the Anthropocene [Round Table]
- Session 67 - Experiencing transition in modern urbanization
- Session 68 - From the Margins: Reimagining Urban Networks in Europe and Beyond
- Session 69 - Crossing urban Planning cultures in time of conflict and reconciliation: views on continental Europe
- Session 70 - Sheltering the Displaced: Housing the 'Other' and the Making of the Post-war City
- Session 71 - Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945
- Session 72 - Transcribing Urbanistic Networks in Europe: Standardization and Symbolism in Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
- Session 73 - Global Urban Networks Revisited: Transnational Urban Planning in the Cold War Period
- Session 74 - Shaping Global Urbanization: Expert Networks in the Mid-Twentieth Century [Round Table]
- Session 75 - Negotiating Nature in the Histories of post-World War II Housing: Policies, Discourses and Practices in Europe and Beyond.
- Session 76 - The urban history of socio-ecological trade-offs. Negotiating environmental 'goods' and 'bads'
- Session 77 - Urban movements, participatory spatial practices and the transformation of cities
- Session 78 - Ecological Postmodern - Architecture and Urban Design after the Oil Shock
- Session 79 - Post-Socialist Deindustrialization and Urban Transformation: Resilience, Adaptation, and Global Comparative Perspectives.
- Session 80 - Images and narratives of post-industrial urban spaces
- Session 81 - Downtown Revisited: Neoliberal Urban Planning in Historical Perspective Across Europe and Beyond
- Session 82 - Saving the Heart of the City: From Barcelona to Venice, the Past and Future of Historic Urban Centres
- Session 83 - Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in the 20th Century
- Session 84 - Spatializing Popular Music: urban networks of creativity in Europe and Beyond, c. 1930-2000
- Session 85 - Jewish City Biographies: Issues, Themes, and the Definition of a Genre
- Session 86 - Networked Emotions: Exploring the Felt Experiences of Urban Places
- Session 87 - Beyond Transcendence. Understanding Networks of Religious Belonging between Local Urban Parishes and Global Institutions since the Turn of the 20th Century.
- Session 88 - Urban Heritage and Mental Well-being: Memory, Belonging and City Networks in Modern and Contemporary Cities
- Session 89 - Activist knowledge(s) and the city: engaged research and its significance for urban history
- Session 90 - Writing City Monographs in the 21st Century: Challenges in a Multifaceted World [Round Table]
- Session 91 - Public history at city history museums
- Session 92 - New challenges in reading the city through city museums [Round Table]
- Session 93 - City museums and decolonising networks [Round Table]
- Session 94 - Heritagisation of urban landscapes
- Session 95 - Colonial legacies in public space: commemoralisation, conflict and artistic interventions
- Session 96 - Heritage conflicts and urban identity [Round Table]
- Session 97 - Mapping Urban Complexity: Unveiling Invisible Narratives
- Session 98 - Methodological Challenges and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Maritime History and Port City Studies
- Session 99 - Digital cartography for the Historic Charter of Barcelona
- Session 100 - Cambridge Urban History of Europe
- Session 101 - Clark’s new book Why Study Small Towns and Cities?
- Session 102 - General Session
