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• 15 nov 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Port Cities: Comparative Perspectives on Urban Stability and Public Safety

  18th-21st centuries

  The coming of globalization was centrally anchored in the increased mobility of goods, people and ideas. Port cities were thus transformed in crucial hubs in this mobility age. Because of the heterogeneous social and cultural landscape associated with commerce and transport, port cities became increasingly known as insecure places. Hence the perceptions resulting from and the strategies adopted to deal with the insecurity and the search for a new sense of urban stability were especially acute in port cities.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  When cities meet forests

  Environmental approaches of interactions between cities and forest supplies during the Middles Ages and the Early modern period. 12th International Conference on urban History, European Association for Urban History – Main Session M16

  As places of consumption and production European medieval and early modern cities exerted a enormous pressure on neighbouring woodlands. Some historical studies have already discussed the way cities tried to impone their control on these lands emphasizing the diversity of needs which were fulfilled by forest exploitation (wood, timber, charcoal, grazing…). They often concluded that urban pressure resulted in an inexorable degradation of the forest cover. Indeed local woodlands and forests products could probably never meet the demand. In order to face shortage or, better, to prevent it, urban authorities attempted on one hand to extend their control on more and more distant forests and to attract interregional or « international » trade flows. On the other hand, they tried to regulate the local market so as to ensure access to several important needs regarding urban economy (charcoal, timber).

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• 15 oct 2012

  Walferdange

  Call for papers - History

  Extra muros - Suburban spaces in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Period (14th-18th centuries)

  Les villes et leur hinterland sont interconnectés de diverses manières. L’étude de l’emprise des villes sur leur environnement immédiat et plus lointain constitue un domaine de recherche traditionnel de l’histoire urbaine médiévale et moderne. Pourtant le « spatial turn », opéré par l’historiographie anglo-saxonne dès la fin des années 1980, a renouvelé le questionnement des historiens concernant le contexte spatial et la perception de l’espace. Sous ce nouvel angle d’approche, l’hinterland urbain reste encore largement une zone sous-étudiée. L’objectif du colloque est d’explorer ces espaces suburbains en examinant leur mise en réseau et leur représentation.

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