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- There are no restrictions regarding topic, disciplinary background, or academic status. Proposals are welcome from scholars at any career stage and from any relevant field, provided they address a historical research problem and demonstrate methodological and historiographical awareness.
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- Convenors may, if they wish, present a paper in their own session (but not in any others).
- Accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts (Insights Proceedings series). Following peer review, full papers will be published in the post-conference volumes (Insights series).
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Select the Session *Not yet selected1.1. Contending for the City: Spaces, Actors and Practices of Governance in the Late Middle Ages1.2. Architecture of Power, Fortifications and Urban Transformations between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period1.3. Places of Worship, Spaces of Conflict. Architectures and Representations of Power in the Contested City between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period1.4. “Expropriated”, Decommissioned, and Demolished Conventual Complexes as Urban Wounds: Experiences and Comparisons in the European Context1.5. Slow Wounds. Urban Hierarchies and Uneven Modernity from the Early Modern to the Contemporary City1.6. Making the Early Modern City through Markets and Circulation: Governance, Control, and Dynamics of Power (15th-18th Centuries)1.7. Early Modern Women and Urban Space: Governing and Transforming Court Cities1.8. Recurring Catastrophes: Cities, Seasons and Floods in a Long-Term Perspective1.9. Wounded Civic Architectures: Destruction, Trauma, and Reconstruction between the Early Modern and Contemporary Age1.10. Tensions, Fractures, and Wounds in the Processes of Urban ‘Modernization’. A Comparative Analysis of Italian and European Experiences (18th-20th Centuries)1.11. Local Public Services and Urban Governance between the 19th and 21st Centuries1.12. Reports, Surveys, and Statistics. The Persuasive Power of Empirical Data in the Governance and Control of the City1.13. Sacred Wounds: Church Building Sites That Shred and Sew Back Together the Fabric of Cities (20th Century)1.14. Religious, Encounter and Care-Related Spaces. Churches, Churchyards and Squares in the Twentieth-Century City1.15. Instrumentalization of the Past: The Role of Heritage under Infrastructure-Driven Transformations of Landscape1.16. Transforming Post-War Italian Cities: Regeneration Projects between Aspirations and Failures)1.17. Urban Governance and Socio-Spatial Inequalities in the Contemporary City1.18. Authoring Absence: Demolition, Forgetting, and the Wounds of the Contemporary City (20th-21st Centuries)1.19. Business Districts and Cities of the Future: Territorial Governance, Architectural Experimentation, and Urban Imaginaries from the Twentieth Century to the Present

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