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• 10 nov 2017

  Leicester

  Call for papers - History

  Urban governance and its disorders: Corruption in the cities

  The issue of corruption has, of late, become of growing interest to social scientists and historians although research in corruption in urban settings less so and the relationship of corruption to urban governance even less. The complexity of governance as distinct from government has raised questions, particularly since the 1980s, as state governments have sought relationships with private and voluntary actors to manage and deliver services and other public goods.

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• 15 déc 2017

  Lyon

  Call for papers - History

  Hospital, city and citizenship - experiences past and present

  Souvent premiers employeurs des villes où ils sont installés, objets de débats politiques et de mobilisations citoyennes, en particulier au moment des regroupements, fusions et désaffectations d’établissements, les hôpitaux sont au centre de la vie économique, sociale et politique des cités. L’objet de ce colloque est de mettre en évidence l’ancienneté de l’emprise urbaine des hôpitaux dans la ville, mais aussi  du lien entre ces espaces de soin et d’assistance et les sociétés urbaines.

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• 15 déc 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Decapitalisations

  Contestations, exiles, transfers, bicephaly...capital cities

  The conference, organized by Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle and Centre André Chastel, scheduled on June 16^th, 17^th and 18^th 2016 and will be devoted to examining the fate of those capitals that have been temporarily or permanently stripped of their status, alternative or provisional capitals and mobile forms of sovereignty, as well as the endurance of "capitalness", from a historical and history of art point of view. How does a city survive this political and administrative downgrading? What is the cultural impact of the loss of political "capitalness"? What role do historical capitals play in relation to capitals that boast their modernity? How are the transfers structured? How does the diplomatic community follow these changes? How does international recognition influence the persistency, or lack thereof, of "capitalness"?

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• 31 oct 2015

  Helsinki

  Call for papers - Representation

  Managing the State, transforming the City. Office buildings for central State administrations as a "forgotten" type of political architecture (1880–1980)

  XIII International Conference of European Association for Urban History – Session 29

  From the late XIX^th century onwards, both the competence and scale of Ministerial departments and State-run corporations have increased continuously in Western countries. This growth – which accelerated after each World War, and became a truly global phenomenon in the second half of the XX^th century – necessitated the construction of large and well-equipped office buildings, which were often grouped together in the "administrative districts" of capitals and other major cities. 

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