The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association “The Working Urban” Chicago, Illinois October 13-16, 2016 (original) (raw)

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association “The Working Urban” Chicago, Illinois October 13-16, 2016 The Urban History Association Program Committee seeks submissions for sessions on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history. We welcome proposals for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers, and are receptive to alternative session formats that foster audience participation in the proceedings. The Program Committee is pleased to announce that Loyola University Chicago will serve as the local host for this year’s conference, which will be held on October 13-16, 2016. The conference theme – The Working Urban – highlights the importance of labor and of historians’ working definitions of “urban history.” We therefore encourage submissions that explore how the racial and gendered aspects of work impact our understanding and experience of the built environment. Panel and paper proposals are not restricted to the conference theme, however. Being fifty years removed from the 1960s and a century from the Progressive Era, the program committee will also pay special attention to panels marking the anniversaries of events that profoundly impacted cities, including the opening of Margaret Sanger’s first birth control clinic in 1916, the Watts uprising in Los Angeles, the Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966, the Model Cities Program, Martin Luther King’s Chicago campaign, the Supreme Court’s Miranda decision, the founding of the Black Panther Party, and more. Finally, in recognition of urban history’s considerable breadth, we seek contributions that make global comparisons and explore metropolitan politics in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa. Sessions on ancient and pre-modern as well as modern periods are welcome. Graduate student submissions are encouraged. We prefer complete panels but individual papers will be considered. Please designate a single person to serve as a contact for all complete panels. For traditional panels, include a brief explanation of the overall theme, a one-page abstract of each paper, and a one- or two-page c.v. for each participant. Roundtable proposals should also designate a contact person and submit a one-page theme synopsis and a one or two page c.v. for each presenter. Proposals involving alternative formats should include a brief description of how the session will be structured. All those submitting individual papers should include a one-page abstract and a one or two page c.v. E-mail submissions by March 1, 2016 to N. D. B. Connolly at nconnol2@jhu.edu and Donna Jean Murch at dmurch@history.rutgers.edu. Submissions should be included in attachments as Word or PDF documents. As part of the conference the UHA will organize workshops for graduate students writing dissertations in urban and suburban history. Students who have written a prospectus and who wish to participate in a workshop should apply with a two to four page letter of interest by March 1, 2016 to Timothy Neary at timothy.neary@salve.edu.