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Forthcoming Conferences

The following is a searchable list of forthcoming conferences related to the field of planning history. The deadlines for calls for papers for these conferences may or may not have passed.


By Date of Conference
By Country

By Country

Argentina

XI Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica: La planificación territorial y el urbanismo desde el diálogo y la participación, Buenos Aires, 2-7 May 2010.
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 26 October 2009

Australia

Housing Researchers Conference, Sydney, 5-7 August 2009
(conference website)

"Balancing Choices and Effects in a Dynamic World" Institute of Australian Geographers, 28 September - 1 October 2009

State of Australian Cities: City Growth, Sustainability, Viability and Vulnerability, Perth, Australia, 24-27 November 2009
(conference website)

11th Australasian Urban History/Planning Conference, Perth, 5-8 February 2012 (conference website)

Austria

Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development: Frontpage Planning: Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest, Salzburg, Austria, 3-6 May 2012.
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 February 2012.

Belgium

Public Space and Urban Experiences in Ottoman Cities, The European Association of Urban Historians Tenth International Conference on Urban History City & Society in European History, Ghent 1st-4th September 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 December 2009

The Mid-Size City: The Dual Nature of Urban Imagery in Europe During the Long 20th Century, Colloquium, Ghent, Belgium, 19-21 April 2012. Deadline for paper proposals January 31 2012.  Click here for more information about the event.

Brazil

Chamada de trabalhos, Colóquio internacional pluridisciplinar Pontes e idéias: Louis-Léger Vauthier, engenheiro frances no Brasil, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, 19-22 October 2009
(Further information)

Cities, Nations and Regions in Planning History, 15th IPHS Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15-18 July 2012
(Further information available here)

Canada

Eighteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Montreal, Canada, 26-29 August  2011
(website):Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 January 2011

Historical Geography Network of the Social Science History Association, 37th Annual Meeting of the SSHA, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 November 2012. Deadline for abstracts March 1 2012 (see website). 

China

Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form, Guangzhou, China, 4-7 September 2009
(Contact: Professor Yinsheng Tian at ISUF2009@scut.edu.cn, or Dr Kai Gu at k.gu@auckland.ac.nz):Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 December 2008

Second Forum of World Urban History in China, Hangzhou, China, 6-8 April 2012. Deadline for abstracts: 15th February 2012. Email: qiaohua8116@126.com

Cyprus

Wessex Institute of Technology, Fourth International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning, Cyprus, 13-15 May 2009
(conference website)


Czech Republic

European Association for Urban History, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 August - 1 September 2012
(conference website)



Finland

"Space is Luxury" 24th AESOP Annual Conference, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland,7-10 July 2010
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: October 2009.
(conference website)



Germany

Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, 5-7 May 2009
(conference website)

"Modeling Spaces? Modifying Societies" Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, 7? October 2009
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 May 2009

'War Pespectives. Architecture and Planning in Italy and beyond (1937-1945),' Politecnico di Milano, Milan 21-22 January 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 30 September 2009

Resilient Cities, 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany, 28-30 May 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: October 2009

The Seventeenth International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2010), Geomatikum, Hamburg 20-23 August 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 January 2010

Jane Jacobs and Paradigm Shifts in Urban Planning, Hamburg 12-13 May 2011
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 4 March 2011. Conference program here.

The Distinctiveness of Cities - Modes of Production, Darmstad 15-17 June 2011
(conference website)

45+ Architecture and Urban Planning in the PostWar Era, Berlin 22-24 July 2011

Greece

International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Greece, 31 March-3 April 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 5 October 2009

Israel

Public Life in the In-Between-City, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, I.I.T., Israel, June 6-10, 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 December 2009


Italy

The City and Networks, IV AISU Congress (Italian Association of Urban History), Milan, 19-21 February 2009
(conference website)

'A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 1798-1956,' Mediterranean Programme, 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence and Montecatini Terme, 25-28 March 2009
(conference description)
(call for papers)
(application form) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 September 2008

'Spaces for Change?': Decentralization, Participation and Local Governance Innovations in the MENA Region, Mediterranean Programme, 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting, Florence and Montecatini Terme, 25-28 March 2009
(conference description)
(application form) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 September 2008

Preserving Places: Tourism and Conservation for a Sustainable Enhancement of Historic Centres, Rome, 13-14 November 2009
(conference description)

Malaysia

Malacca International Heritage Conference, Malacca, 5-7 July 2011 (conference website)

The Netherlands

'Understanding and Shaping Regions: Spatial, Social and Economic Futures,' Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 6-8 April 2009
(conference website)

European Transport Conference, Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, The Netherlands, 5-7 October 2009
(conference website)

Questioning Urban Modernity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 18 2012. Deadline for abstracts February 10 2012.  Visit the event website here.

New Zealand
"Planning Pathways to the Future," New Zealand Planning Institute and Planning Institute of Australia, Christchurch, New Zealand, 20-23 April 2010
(call for papers) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 18 September 2009
(conference website)



Portugal

1st International Meeting EAHN, European Architectural History Network, Guimarães, Portugal, June 17-20, 2010
(further information)

'People Make Places: Ways of Feeling the World': 10th SIEF International Congress, Lisbon, April 17-21, 2011
(call for papers) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 February 2010



Serbia

'Regional Development and Spatial Organisation', Belgrade, Serbia, 7-8 December, 2009
(further information)




Turkey


"Revitalising Built Environments": Requalifying Old Places for New Uses, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-16 October 2009
(conference website)

"Urban Dynamics and Housing Change," European Network for Housing Research Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 July 2010.
(call for papers) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 5 January 2010

4th International Planning History Society Conference, "Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges" Istanbul, Turkey 12-15 July 2010
(call for papers) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 30 November 2009

The 26th Annual AESOP Congress, 'Planning to Achieve/Planning to Avoid', Ankara, Turkey, July 11-15 2012.  Call for papers - click here. Abstract deadline January 15 2012.



United Kingdom

"Crises and the City" Urban History Group Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 2-3 April 2009
(Further information - call for papers)

"Transilient Boundaries in/of Architecture," University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3-4 April 2009
(Further information - call for papers)

'Spaces and Places' IHR/History Lab 2009 Postgraduate Conference, London, United Kingdom, 25-26 June 2009
(conference website - call for papers)

8th Annual Transatlantic Studies Association Conference 13-16 July 2009, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
Panel 2. Planning and the Environment: Tony Jackson a.a.jackson@dundee.ac.uk
EU-US environmental policies: Comparing EU member states and US states: Paul Luif PaulLuif@compuserve.com
(conference website - call for papers) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 May 2009

"Why Can't the Past be More Like the Future?" 23rd Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Liverpool, 15-18 July 2009
(Further information - call for papers)
(Panel on Planning History)

The Politics of Space and Place First Call for Papers CAPPE, 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK 16-18 September 2009
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 30 April 2009

A Conference and Field-Seminar in the Ancient Town of Winchelsea in Memory of Professor M.W. Beresford, Winchelsea, East Sussex, 21-23 May 2010
(conference website)

"Recreating Renaissance and Baroque Spectacle: the Hispanic Habsburg Dynasty in context" Edinburgh, UK, 6-7 July 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 April

Seminar in Visual Culture, London, UK, 15 June 2011
(conference website)

Shadow Cities: Realities and Representations, London, UK, 6-7 July 2011
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 January 2011

1st Annual London Studies Conference, London, UK, 12-14 July 2011
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 31 March 2011

East Asian Cities and Globalization: The Past in the Present, Warwick University, UK, 9-10 July 2011
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 4 April 2011

Sport and Leisure in Suburbs and New Towns Conference: Communities, Identities and Interactions, London, UK, 21-22 July 2011
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 April 2011

Sport and Nationalism and the City, Cambridge, UK, 10-11 February 2012
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 October 2011. For further details click here.

Urban History Group Annual Conference:  The Living and Liveable City, Oxford, UK, 29-30 March 2012
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 30 September 2011. For further details click here.

British Association of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, 12-14 April 2012
Deadline for submission of panel proposals: 30 November 2011.  Deadline for paper proposals: 31 January 2012. For further details email conference organisers at basas2012@soas.co.uk.

Sports and the City: Competition, Cultures, Identities and Urban Life Since 1880, London, UK, 24-25 April 2012
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 25 November 2011.

Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Bangor, UK. Deadline for abstracts April 16 2012.  Visit the event website here.

USA


Ambiguous Territories: Articulating New Geographies in Latin American Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Columbia University, New York, March 27-28, 2009.
(Further information)

"Mining Metropolis: An Island in a Stockman Paradise" Vernacular Architecture Fund, Annual Meeting, Butte, Montana, USA, 10-13 June 2009
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 October 2008

Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) 13th National Conference on Planning History, Oakland, California, October 15-18, 2009
(conference website)Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15 April 2009

Utopian theory/Utopian practice: Confluence, tension, intersection, incommensurability, 34th Annual Meeting, Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Blockade Runner Hotel, North Carolina, October 29-1 November 2009
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 10 May 2009

National Conference, American Planning Association, New Orleans, USA, 10-13 April 2010
(conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 18 August 2009

"Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Crystal City, Virginia, 1-4 October 2009
(conference website)

Spaces of History/Histories of Space: Emerging Approaches to the Built Environment, University of California at Berkeley, 30 April 2010
(conference website)Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 8 January 2010

9/11 in New York Ten Years Later: Local Impacts, Global Implications, September 16-17 2011 (conference website) Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 1 March 2011

June 2011

The Distinctiveness of Cities - Modes of Production, Darmstad 15-17 June 2011
(conference website)

Seminar in Visual Culture, London, UK, 15 June 2011
(conference website)

April 2012

Second Forum of World Urban History in China, Hangzhou, China, 6-8 April 2012. Deadline for abstracts: 15th February 2012. Email: qiaohua8116@126.com

British Association of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, 12-14 April 2012
Deadline for submission of panel proposals: 30 November 2011.  Deadline for paper proposals: 31 January 2012.

The Mid-Size City: The Dual Nature of Urban Imagery in Europe During the Long 20th Century, Colloquium, Ghent, Belgium, 19-21 April 2012. Deadline for paper proposals January 31 2012. 

Sports and the City: Competition, Cultures, Identities and Urban Life Since 1880, London, UK, 24-25 April 2012
Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 25 November 2011.

May 2012

Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development: Frontpage Planning: Before and After Major Events, Disasters, and Social Unrest, Salzburg, Austria, 3-6 May 2012.

Questioning Urban Modernity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 18 2012. Deadline for abstracts February 10 2012.  Visit the event website here.

June 2012

July 2012

The 26th Annual AESOP Congress, 'Planning to Achieve/Planning to Avoid', Ankara, Turkey, July 11-15 2012.  Call for papers - click here. Abstract deadline January 15 2012.

Cities, Nations and Regions in Planning History, 15th IPHS Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 15-18 July 2012
(Further information available here)

August 2012

European Association for Urban History, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 August - 1 September 2012
(conference website)

September 2012

Community, Cohesion and Social Stability: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Bangor, UK, 13-14 September 2012  (Conference website).

October 2012

November 2012

Historical Geography Network of the Social Science History Association, 37th Annual Meeting of the SSHA, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 November 2012. Deadline for abstracts March 1 2012 (see website).

December 2012