PRELIMINARY PROGRAM DRAFT

This schedule is subject to change. The Program Committee will do its best to keep presentations in a broadly similar time slot, but we urge presenters to plan on attending both days of the conference.

THURSDAY, JULY 10

8:00 AM – Registration / Kaffee und Kuchen

8:30 AM – Welcome
   CMS Terrace, weather permitting

9:00-10:45 AM – Panel Session I
1.1      After the Global Turn: Socio-Environmental Histories of Port Cities (Roundtable)
           Lucia Carminati (University of Oslo, Norway)
                Fecal Matters: An Archive of Excrements in Early Port Said
           Olivia Durand (Institute of Historical Research, London, UK)
                Fragmented Cosmopolitanism in Contested Borderlands: Comparing the United States and the Russian Empire through New Orleans and Odessa
           Vignesh P. (Ashoka University, India)
                An Eastern Venice: Harbour Construction and Ecological Changes in Cochin, 1918-32
           Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
                Before the Port City: Coastal Settlements and Colonialism in Borneo
           Chair: Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

 
1.2.      Development Discourses
           Li Hou (Harvard School of Design, USA)
                Statecraft Urbanism: Building Garden City in Shenzhen
           Zhongjie Lin (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
                Suzhou Industrial Park: Forty Years of Evolution of a Chinese Model New Town
           Samuel Uwem (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
                Urban Planning and Street Renaming in South Africa
           Thaís R. S. de Sant’ana (University of Houston, USA)
                De-Scaling Global Urban History?: A Local Perspective on Development in Amazonia
           Chair: Kenny Cupers (University of Basel, Switzerland)


1.3.      Thinking about the Concept of Autonomy in Global Urban History: From the Middle Ages to Today
           Maarten Prak (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
                The Autonomy of Cities: A Global History
           Patrick Lantschner (University College London, UK)
                The ‘Autonomy’ of Cities between Christendom and the Islamic world in the Middle Ages
           Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University, USA)
                Autonomy of Cities: Perspectives on the Third World
           Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
                Autonomy in the Contemporary World
           Chair: Patrick Lantschner (University College London, UK)

 
1.4.      Global Lagos
           Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University, USA)
                Histories in the Street
           Halimat Somotan (Georgetown University, USA)
                From Lagos to London: Grassroots Women and the Resistance to Property Displacement, 1920s to 1950s
           Abosede George (Columbia University, USA)
                Migration, Diaspora, and Citizenship in Early Histories of Lagos
           Chrystel Oloukoï (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
                Nighttime Lights: Lagosian Ideas of Urban modernity in the shadow of the myth of the Dark Continent
           Chair: Abosede George (Columbia University, USA)


1.5.      Literary Works and the Urban History of the Global Interwar
           Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
                Paddington Laid Bare: 1930s–40s Texts of Slum London in Global Urban History
           Gala Maria Follaco (University of Naples L’Orientale)
                Building Stories, Telling Cities: Chronicles of Greater Tōkyō Flourishing (1927)
           Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz (American University of Beirut)
                Literary Narratives of Urban Dilapidation in Interwar Istanbul
           Chair: Inna Häkkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

 
10:45-11:15 AM – Coffee Break / Kaffeepause

11:15 AM-1:00 PM – Panel Session II
2.1.      Cities and the Planet: Global Urban Historians and Urban Political Ecologists in Conversation (Roundtable)
           Greet van der Block (University of Antwerp, Netherlands)
           Yannis Tzaninis
           Christoph Bernhard (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
           Simone Barles (IFU, Université Paris-Est, France)
           Carl Nightingale (University at Buffalo, USA)
           Chair: Dorothee Brantz (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, Germany)

 
2.2.      Global Urbicide(s) in the Past and Present
           Bruce Stanley (Richmond American University, UK)
                Messages in a Bottle: Notes on Urbicide and Temporal Sovereignty
           Wangui Kimari (American University of Nairobi, Kenya)
                Nairobi’s Slow Urbicide(s)
           Olaoye Adenike Mercy (University of Ilorin, Nigeria)
                Urbanization and the Politics of Spatial Creation and Destruction: The Case of Nigerian Cities in a Global Context
           Gaurav C Garg (Ashoka University, India)
                Towards a Global History of Urban Crisis and Necropolitan Discourse
           Chair: Ümit Firat Acikgöz (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

 
2.3.      Future Orientations: Finance and Urban Geographies of the Indian Ocean World
           Leilah Vevaina (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
                Finance and Funerary Infrastructure: Shifts in the Zoroastrian Property and Propriety
           Anwesha Ghosh (National Law School of India University)
                A Tale of Three Cities: Rent Acts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon
           Meghna Chaudhuri (Davidson College, USA)
                Fever Dreams in Future Time: Bombay in the 1850s-60s
           Chair: Alexia Yates (European University Institute, Italy)


2.4.      Cities, Racial Capitalism, and Access to Imperial Wealth in the Early Modern Period
           Tatiana Seijas (Rutgers University, USA)
                Valuing Labor in a City of Silver
           Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
                Real Estate and Racial Capitalism in Early North America
           Mariana Dantas (Ohio University, USA)
                Black Women, Property Ownership, and Generational Wealth in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire
           Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
                Catalina’s Fleeting Freedom: An Indigenous Woman’s Journey in Colonial Bogotá
           Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel (Utrecht University)

 
2.5.      Historical Comparisons and Asian Cities: Rethinking Global Urbanism from China and India
           Taoyu Yang (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)
                Museum Practices and the Colonial Past in Urban China: Heritagization, Museology, and Colonial Nostalgia during the Post-Reform Era
           Xuefei Ren (Michigan State University, USA)
                The Infrastructure Turn in Urban History?
           Eric L. Beverley (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA)
                State Capitalist Cities: Global Concepts from Asian Urbanism
           Chair: Kristin Stapleton (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)

 
2.6.      World Heritage and Conservation
           Pooja Kalita (Social Scientists’ Association, Sri Lanka)
                Heritagization vs. History(s): Gender in the ‘Neo-Global’ Urban Heritage of Bodh Gaya and Lumbini
           Gábor Sonkoly (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)
                Reappropriation of national and local history through world heritage: Recent world heritage cities as indices for global urban history
           Chong Xu (Soochow University, Taiwan)
                Global Perspective on ‘Paradise on Earth’: Suzhou and Hangzhou in the Global Tours in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
           Chair: Yorim Spoelder (Freie Universität)

 
1:00-2:30 PM – Lunch Break

2:30-4:15 PM – Panel Session III
3.1.      Critical Engagements with Stefan Kipfer’s Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Roundtable)
           Heather Dorries (University of Toronto, Canada)
           Monika Streule (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/The London School of Economics and Political Science)
           Michael Simpson (St. Andrew’s University, UK)
           Denis Bocquet (Strasbourg École d’Architecture, France)
           Chair: David Hugill (Carleton University) and Stefan Kipfer (York University, Canada)

 
3.2.      Property and Governance in Global Urban History: Cases and Frameworks (Roundtable)
           Nancy Kwak (University of California, San Diego, USA)
                Housing Global Billions
           Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago, USA)[1]
                Cities and Urban Informalities
           Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
                Papers in Hand: Formality, Race, and Real Estate in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
           Michael Thornton (Northeastern University, USA)
                Urban Life in Japan’s Settler Colonial Empire
           Chair: Alexia Yates (European University Institute)


3.3      Seasonality: Global Histories of the Urban
           Peter Hemmersam (Oslo Center for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway)
                Summer in the Winter City: Thoughts from the (True) Global North
           Avi Sharma (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, Germany)
                “Before the Rains”: Resettling Partition Refugees in Delhi and Faridabad, 1947-1991
           Dorothee Brantz (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, Germany)
                Seasonal Buds: The Cherry Blossom as Transnational Urban Networking between Tokyo, Washington, and Berlin
           Chair: Gábor Sonkoly (EHESSociales Paris, France)

 
3.4.      Colonial and Anticolonial Urbanism
           Shiben Banerji (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
                Anticolonial Globalism: A Conceptual History of Suburban Life in Early-Twentieth-Century Sydney, Bombay, and New York
           Gopi Swamy (University of Hyderabad, India)
                From Princely Capital to Global Urban Centre: Role of City Improvement Board in transforming Hyderabad city on western lines
           Mohd Aquil (Jindal Global University, India)
                Fin De Siècle Allahabad: Provincial modernity, Caste and Colonial Capitalism in a small North Indian City
           Gabriel Doyle (University of Aix- Marseille, France)
                Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty: Reinterpreting Imperial Treaties in Ottoman Port Cities
           Chair: Halimat Somotan (Georgetown University)

 
3.5      Everyday Technologies and Port Cities in Colonial Postcolonial Asia
           Sohini Chattopadhyay (Union College NY, USA)
                “The Gasometer”: Ideas of Cremation and Migration in Nineteenth Century Bombay
           Mimi Cheng (Newberry Library, USA)
                The Flicker of Empire: Localizing the Chinese Maritime Customs Service’s Light Program
           Zhengeng Wang (International Institute for Asian Studies)
                Food Refrigeration and Everyday Knowledge: The Bingxiang in Treaty-Port China
           Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology, India)
                The Toto as an “Ecological Alternative” in the Kolkata Wetlands: Classist Implications of Bourgeois Environmentalism
           Chair: Mikko Toivanen (Freie Universität, Germany)


4:15-4:45 PM – Coffee Break
 
4:45-6:30 PM – Panel Session IV
4.1      Dead Cities: A Methodological Roundtable
           Vyta Pivo (University of Miami, USA)
                Zombie Urbanism: Cities as Parking Garages for Global Capital
           Ismael Biyashev (University of Michigan, USA)
                “Tombs, Mummies and Bones Lie Silent”: The Paradox of Dead Cities in Late Imperial Russia
           Inna Häkkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
                Nuclear Traumascape as the Site of Resilience: Literary Frames of Pripyat City in Chornobyl Fiction for Children and Young Adults
           Paul Kurek (University of Michigan, USA)
                Designing a Dead City: The Fluid Foundations underneath the Eternal Erections of Albert Speer’s Berlin/Germania
           Chair: Johanna Hügel (University of Erfurt, Germany)

 
4.2.      Speculative Urbanization
           Salma Abouelhossein (Harvard University, USA)
                The Sugar Gamble: Finance, Ecology, and Empire in Egypt’s Sugar Belt (1890-1914)
           Himalaya Bora (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
                A Landscape of Speculation: Traders, Landlords and Urban Land in the Making of a Frontier Town of the British Empire- Guwahati, 1860s-1900s
           Oumaïma Jaïdane-Yıldız (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
                Long Nineteenth-Century Tunis and its First Railway: A Spatial Analysis of the TGM (Tunis-Goulette-Marsa)
           Chair: Nancy Kwak (University of California, San Diego, USA)

 
4.3      Informal Architecture in Twentieth-Century Europe
           Florian Urban (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
                “Green Slums”: Unplanned Architecture in Twentieth-Century Berlin
           Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Polytechnic University of Catalonia-Barcelona Tech, Spain)
                Memorialization, Politicization, and Contemporary Struggles of Barcelona’s Informal Housing
           Friedrich Hauer (Technical University Vienna, Austria)
                Persistent stopgaps: How the “Facts on the Ground” Shaped Twentieth-Century Suburban Vienna and its Planning Frames
           Noel Manzano-Gómez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
                The Elementary Structures of Squatter Settlements: Paradigms and Findings on the Spatial Configuration of 1960s Bidonviles in Paris
           Chair: Lucio Piccoli (Freie Universität)

 
4.4      Design and Representation of the Colonial and Postcolonial City
           Kieran Gaya (University College Dublin, Ireland)
                Constantinos Doxiadis and the Visual Epistemology of Islamabad’s Master Plan
           Chen Chu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
                Urbanizing Peace: Coen Beeker in Sudan and Ethiopia in the 1970s
           Seda Kula (Gebze Technical University, Turkey)
                Urban Squares in Late Ottoman Capita: Beyazit Versus Tophane
           Hatem Hegab
                “But the ‘Door’ Won’t Open”: Emotions as Method in Writing Urban Histories
           Chair: Cédric Feriel (Université Rennes)

 
4.5      Urban Infrastructures
           Robin Hueppe (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zwitzerland)
                Still Waters: Attending to the Retention Basins of Berlin’s Mass Housing Landscapes
           Yunus Ugur (Marmara University, Turkey/Freie Universität, Germany)
                Stretching the Limits of Global History in the Early Modern Period Through Urban Heating and Cooling Practices: The Case of Istanbul
           Johan Lagae (Ghent University, Belgium)
           Monika Motylińska (Leibniz Institute for Society and Space, Germany)
                Tracing the Urban Cleft?: Global (Hi)Stories of Two Bridges in Africa through a Multiscalar Lens between the Spectacular and the Mundane
           Jie Shen (University of Tokyo)
                Crane-Built Socialist Cities: Industrialization, Mechanization, and Lifting Construction in the Early PRC’s Urbanization
           Chair: Xuefei Ren (Michigan State University, USA)

 
6:30-8:30 PM – Conference Reception CMS
 

FRIDAY, JULY 11

8:00 – Kaffee und Kuchen

9:00-10:45 AM – Panel Session V
5.1.      Are We Really Sure That We Want to Keep "Stretching" the Urban After All? Perspectives from Intellectual and Environmental History
           Isaac Hand (The University of Chicago, USA)
                The Urban as Euphemism: Turkey in the Twentieth Century and its Echoes in Urban Historiography
           Camille Lyans Cole (Illinois State University, USA)
                The City Unbound? Date Palms and Urban Space in Ottoman Basra
           Zachary Davis Cuyler (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
                Beirut in Relief: Extra-Urban Infrastructures and the Production of Urban Space
           Gabriel Young (New York University, USA)
                The Politics of Encirclement: Material and Social Frontiers in (and around) Postwar Basra
           Chair: Maarten Prak (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

 
5.2.      Real Estate and Markets
           Jan Altaner (St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK)
                Forever Prime Real Estate?: A Global, Long-Durée History of Lebanon’s Political Economy of Urban Space, 1920-1875
           Monique Félix Borin (Museu Paulista, Brazil)
                European Investors and the Real Estate Market in Late Nineteenth-Century São Paulo
           Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (Central European University, Vienna, Austria)
                Between the Vernacular and the Global: Architecture, Retail, and the Postmodernization of Urban Space in Late Socialism, 1970- 1990
           Jule Ulbricht (Freie Universität, Germany)
                The 'Logistics Revolution' in the hinterland: labor, cybernetics, space in the 1980s
           Chair: Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

 
5.3.      Informal Built Environments and Urban Segregation
           Gabriel John Gagno (University of the Philippines)
                Viewing Urban History through Informality: Metropolitan Manila’s Informal Settlements during the Marcos Sr. Period, 1965-1986
           Istikhar Ali (Venu Geriatric Institute)
                ‘Jamia Nagar is a Muslim ghetto’: Economy, Ecology, and the making of a Muslim Colony in Delhi
           Suchismita Goswami (University of Copenhagen)
                Memories of disaster induced urban dispossession: Gendered Experiences of Disaster Relocation and Urban Vulnerability in Chennai
           Olatunde Taiwo and Adefisayo Taiwo (University of Ghana)
                “Large Number of Deportation Orders Have Been Made by The Council... in Relation To Prostitutes”: Sex-Worker Deportations and Colonial Urban Governance in Lagos, 1943-1960
           Chair: Razak Khan (Free University Berlin)

 
5.4.      Urban Maritime Domains
           Emine Esra Nalbant (Binghamton University, USA)
                Late Ottoman Lighthouses: Making of a Maritime Infrastructure
           Nazlı Songülen (University of Exeter, UK)
                A Fluid Territory: Navigating Modernity on the Bosphorus
           Sam Grinsell (University College, London, UK)
                North Sea fishing and the built environment: Bodies, the archive, and the boundaries of the urban
           Deniz Can Keskin (Freie Universität/Humboldt-Universität, Germany)
                Transformation of Istanbul’s Seashores: Relationship of State and Entrepreneurs in Urban Change of 1940s-1950s Turkey
           Chair: Cyrus Schayech (Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)

 
5.5.      Contested Urban Space
           Pablo de Mora (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
                Urban Everyday Conflict in the Street of Madrid during the Interwar Period: Defining the Boundaries of Public Space
           Jakub Frejtag (Univ of Warsaw, Poland)
                Contested Urban Spaces: Architectural Representations of State and Society in the Russian-Dependent Kingdom of Poland
           Yashashwani Srinivas (University of Leeds, UK)
                Untouched Tales: Anti-Caste Movement and the Political History of Urban Spaces in South Asia
           Crystal Luo (Georgetown University, USA)
                “Capital of the Third World”: Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic globalization in Los Angeles, 1972-1999
           Chair: Marcio Siwi, Towson State University USA


10:45-11:15 AM – Coffee Break

11:15 AM-1:00 PM – Panel Session VI
6.1.      The City after the Plantation: Interrogating the Planetary in Urban History
           Irene Peano (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon University, Portugal)
                Plantation of the Slum: Crossing Spatiotemporal Routes
           Ana Gisele Ozaki (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
                The Brazilian Plantation’s Past and Future
           Kenny Cupers (University of Basel, Switzerland)
                Kamiriithu: Unmaking the Plantation
           Wangui Kimari (American University of Nairobi, Kenya)
                Nairobi’s Postcolonial Plantation Systems
           Chair: Carl Nightingale (University at Buffalo, USA)

 
6.2.      Urban Edges and Hinterlands
           Yannis-Adam Allouache (National University of Singapore)
                Singapore’s Laboured ‘Green’ Landscapes and Contested Visions of ‘Sustainability’ in the Plantationocene
           Tania Knapp da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
                Going Beyond the Urban Edge: How Sweet Potatoes Supported an Indigenous Village amid Urban Sprawl (1935-2016)
           Yanbo Li (Tongji University, China)
                Incomplete Copy of Global Capitalism and Its Structural Dilemmas in China's Inland: The Transformation of Guanzhong Plain Region 1922-2022
           Emre Söylemez (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
                Urban Rituals Created by Tobacco and the Globalization of a City: The Case of Samsun, Türkiye
           Chair: Mariana Dantas (Ohio University, USA)

 
6.3.      Transimperial Cities
           Ilhami Daniş (Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Turkey)
                The Rise of Sixteenth Century Izmir: A Port City’s Global Connections
           Isabella Jackson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
                Building, Re-Building, and Bombing the Bund: Transnational Colonialism on Show along the Shanghai Waterfront
           Maarten Jonker (Independent Scholar[8] )
                Port Cities as Trans-Imperial Localities: Dutch Expatriate Communities and ‘Cosmopolitan Dutchness’ along the Asian Littoral, 1919-1941
           Maxim Tvorun-Dunn (University of Tokyo, Japan)
                Colonizing the Future: Urban Imaginations and the Transnational Flow of Techno-Utopia
           Chair: Daniel Tödt (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

 
6.4      Health and the City
           Alexander Obermueller (Erfurt University, Germany)
                To the Rescue: Ambulance Associations in Global Urban History
           B. Eswara Rao (University of Hyderabad, India)
                Sanitary City, Urban Planning and Governance of Spaces in Colonial South India 1860-1940
           Sekinat Adebusola Lasisi (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria)
                Urbanization, Population Overload and Medical Services in Lagos, 1963-1995
           Chair: Johan Lagae (Ghent University)


6.5.      Urban Publics, Cultures, and Media
           Martín Bergel (University of San Martin, Argentina)
                The making of a cultural capital. Buenos Aires as a media city: major newspapers and literary correspondents (1890-1914)
           Aiala Levy (The University of Scranton, UK/Wabash College, USA)
                Publics Through the Lens of Global Urban History
           Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
                Between Crowd and Public: Dilemmas of Social Selfhood in Global Urban Modernity
           Mustafa Wshyar (University of Lodz, Poland)
                Reclaiming the Homeland: “Right to the City” in Feurat Alani's The Flavors of Iraq
           Chair: Cedric Feriel (Université Rennes)

 
12:45-2:15 PM – Lunch Break / Mittagessen

2:15-4:00 PM – Panel Session VII
7.1.      The place of the public in colonial cities
           Catherine S. Chan (Lingnam University, Hong Kong)
                The fluidity of Public Spaces from the Perspective of Animal Experiences in Post-War British Hong Kong
           Sophie-Jung Kim (Freie Universität, Germany/University of Vienna, Austria)
                The Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai and the Formation of an Intercolonial Public Sphere
           Vivian Kong (University of Bristol, UK)
                Competing Notions of the Morality of the Public in Chinese Gaming Houses in Late Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong
           Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
                Itinerant Theaters as Public Space and Public Event in North Borneo, 1910s-1930s
           Chair: Maarten Manse (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

 
7.2.      Preserving and Reimagining Urban Space
           Dipti Chourasia (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
                Reimagining Sacred Spaces: The Transformation of Hindu Temple Architecture in contemporary Contexts
           Ruiqi Shan (Zhejiang University, China)
                Deciphering the Primacy of Lilongs in Shaping Shanghai’s Historic Urban Fabric
           Alva Zalar (Lund University, Sweden)
           Johan Pries (Lund University, Sweden)
                Who cares for urban repair? Stretching the life of buildings, the case of the Edman Pavilion in Lund’s (Sweden) People’s Park.
           Chair: Kristin Stapleton, University at Buffalo, USA)


7.3.      More-Than-Human-Cities
           Anastasia Betsa (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Denmark)
                Ground-ing Buenos Aires: An Urban History of Land, Soil, and Ground[CN5]
           Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
                In the Name of Animal Welfare: Forging Multi-layered Inequalities in 20th Century British Hong Kong
           Mikkel Høghøj (National Museum of Denmark)
                The Rat as a Gateway to Global Urban History
           Nat Marom (Paris Institute for Advanced Study, France)
                Metabolic Entanglements as a Method of Global Urban History: Reflections and Illustrations from the Tel Aviv Region
           Chair: Sam Grinsell (University College, London, UK)


7.4      Imagined and Shaped by the Marginal: Migration and Urban Space in the Making, 1890s-1950s
           Pauli Aro (University of Vienna, Austria)
                German Villages in a German City: Marking the Presence of German Migrants from Former Habsburg Crownlands in Interwar Vienna
           Jiayi Tao (University of Vienna, Austria)
                A “Ghost Town”? Refugees and the Reconstruction of Wuhan, 1945-1950
           Xinrui Xu (Aalborg University, Denmark)
           Changyun Yang (Shanghai University, China)
                Shaping Urban Play Spaces: The Agency of Immigrant Children in the Progressive Era of the United States
           Chair: Vivian Kong (University of Bristol, UK)


7.5.      Labor and Migration
           Alex Cheung (University of Bristol, UK)
                Chinese Migrant Workers amidst Crises: Mobility, Belonging and the Colonial State in Hong Kong, 1890s-1900s
           Aruna Jayasena (South Asian University, New Delhi, India)
                Old Wine in New Bottle? The Emergence of Neoliberal Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Refashioning of Traditional Labour
           Yuxuan Lang (Trinity College Dublin, UK)
                Framing Progress: The Changing Representation of Guangzhou’s ‘Slave-Girls’ in the Visual Press (1850s-1930s)
           Adetola Elizabeth Umoh (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
                Spatial Design Coded In ‘Class Separation and Representational forms of urban space In Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos Island Built Environment[MD2]
           Chair: Lucia Carminati (University of Oslo, Norway)

 
4-5 –  Travel to Closing Reception Venue (TBA)
 
5-5:30 –  Coffee / Kaffee
 
5:15-6:30 – Presidential Address Professor Rosemary Wakeman
  
6:30-7:00 – Ceremony for GUHP Emerging Scholars

7:00-8:30 –  Closing Reception
 
Saturday, July 12, 2025 –  Morning / Midday: Tours