Newsletter #5
of the Global Urban History Project, vol. 1 issue 5
GUHP goes to the IPHS in Yokohama:
Panels and Travel Awardees
Next Monday, the Global Urban History Project will make the third and most elaborate stop out of the four planned "Roundtables Around the World."
Anyone who is attending the Bi-Annual Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) in Yokohama, Japan should plan on joining us for what should be some very interesting presentations and conversations.
As many of you know, last fall GUHP members organized twelve panels at the invitation of the IPHS conference organizers. The schedule of GUHP-sponsored panels is now available on the GUHP Website.
GUHP also used this occasion to inaugurate its Travel Award program for graduate student and non-tenured presenters. We are pleased to announce that eleven Awardees will attend the conference as presenters in GUHP-sponsored panels. As part of their agreements, they will act as Ambassadors to the Membership, making sure that those of us who cannot attend get a flavor of the conference. Keep an eye on your Twitter feed, the GUH blog, and this site for various dispatches from Yokohama.
Note that we have scheduled two GUHP meetings in Yokohama, an organizational one at 8 am on Monday July 16th before the conference and a follow-up meeting after the end of the formal program at 4 pm on Wednesday July 18th, both in Room 6 of the Yokohama Port Opening Hall. All GUHP members and prospective members are encouraged to join us at these meetings. We will try to arrange an informal social gathering as well.
Profuse thanks are due to Kristin Stapleton, Carola Hein, and Nancy Kwak for taking the lead in soliciting and organizing panels last fall and following up with peer-reviews for the proceedings.
Heartfelt thanks too to the Travel Award Committee, chaired by Tracy Neumann and assisted by Joseph Ben Prestel as well as Carola and Kristin, for their work in creating this program from scratch and putting it into action.
Deep appreciation to Sebastian Schmidt and Toby Lincoln for jumping in on conference logistics.
Finally, thanks to Professor Naoto Nakajima and the whole IPHS conference committee for inviting us with open arms to this exciting event.
PS: Stop Number Four is Rome Italy, for the EAUH conference in late August. More about that in future newsletters.
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