Elena Svalduz is the new AISU President
Elena Svalduz was elected President of AISU
Elections of AISU Governing Bodies
The elections of the AISU Governing Bodies took place on Friday 9 September 2022, the result is below.
Election of corporate bodies - Publication of candidacies
The candidacies for the next elections of the corporate bodies scheduled for Friday 9 September at 5:30 PM are published
Video of the AISU Lecture
All the videos of the meetings of the AISU lectures are available
Members' meeting - Election of corporate bodies
The Assembly of the Italian Association of Urban History - AISU International, will be held in Turin, at the headquarters of the Polytechnic in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi n. 24, Friday 9 September 2022, h. 17: 30-19: 30.
AISU members assembly and volume presentation
The volume "La città e la cura. Spazi, istituzioni, strategie, memoria / The city and healthcare. Spaces, Institutions, Strategies, Memory" will be presented on Tuesday 24 May 2022, 10.30 am Aula Foscolo of the University of Pavia Corso Strada Nuova 65, Pavia On the afternoon of the same day, the AISU Members' Assembly will be held.
Publication of the volume “La città e la cura. Spazi, istituzioni, strategie, memoria. The city and healthcare. Spaces Institutions, Strategies, Memory "
We are pleased to announce that the volume "“La città e la cura. Spazi, istituzioni, strategie, memoria. The city and health. Spazi Institutions, Strategies, Memory is online. The electronic version of the volume is published in the editions of the Insight Series.
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AISU LECTURES – Peter Clark
The lecture by Peter Clark (University of Helsinki, Finland) entitled "European Urban History and the Value of Studying Urban Regions." Will be held on Thursday 2 December at 6:00 PM CET.
AISU LECTURES – Hidenobu Jinnai
The lesson of Hidenobu Jinnai (Hosei University, Research Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies, Tokyo, Japan) entitled “New trends in urban history in Japan” will be held on Saturday 20 November at 10:00. AM CET
AISU LECTURES – Sarah Deutsch
Sarah Deutsch's lecture (Duke University, USA) entitled “The City as a Site for Gender Performance and Policing” will be held on Thursday 11 November at 17:00.
AISU LECTURES – Vania Herédia
The lecture by Vania Herédia (University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil) entitled "The formation of urban centers in the Italian colonization zone in southern Brazil" Will be held on Thursday 04 November at 6:00 PM CET.
AISU LECTURES – Sharon Ament
Sharon Ament's lesson entitled "How a disused late-Victorian Market is finding a new purpose for the people of London" will be held on Thursday 21 October at 18:00.
AISU LECTURES – Miriam Paeslack
It will be held on Monday 11 October at 6:00 PM CET Miriam Paeslack's lesson entitled “Between Transparency and Fiction: Photographs of U.S. Infrastructural Construction and Recovery. ".
Publication of the volume "Food and the city"
The list of the names of those who sent us the contribution, revised and adapted to the new editorial rules, is available for download and will therefore be published.
AISU LECTURES – Simon Gunn
Si terrà Giovedì 30 Settembre ore 18:00 la lezione di Simon Gunn dal titolo “Making the City Mobile: Urban History and the Mobilities Turn”. La lezione si terrà su piattaforma Zoom, è necessaria la registrazione per parteciparvi.
AISU LECTURES – Adrián Gorelik
The lecture by Adrián Gorelik entitled “Considerations on the Latin American urban thought of the twentieth century: ideas, figures and institutions” will be held on Thursday 16 September at 17:00. The lesson will be held on the Zoom platform, registration is required to participate.
TODAY – AISU LECTURES – Gábor Sonkoly
Gábor Sonkoly’s lesson entitled “Contemporary urban heritage as a historical indicator” will be held today Thursday 9 September at 18:00. The lesson will be held on the Zoom platform, registration is required to participate.
Annual Meeting of the AISU Members
Si terrà lunedì 6 settembre 2021 alle ore 17:30 l’Assemblea dei soci dell’AISU.
AISU Lectures – Swati Chattopadhyay “Hacking the Urban Code: Durational Imagination in City-Making”
The third meeting of the AISU Lectures will be held on Monday 14 June 2021 at 6:00 PM CET with the lecture by Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California) entitled “Hacking the Urban Code: Durational Imagination in City-Making”.
AISU Lectures – Peter Stabel “The Difficulty of Comparing. Pitfalls and Opportunities When Writing a New Synthesis on the Urban History of Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds.”
LINK is available for registration for the lesson!
The second lesson of the AISU Lectures will be held on Thursday 10 June 2021 at 18:00. The event will be online.
The cycle of lectures with Peter Stabel continues with “The Difficulty of Comparing. Pitfalls and Opportunities When Writing a New Synthesis on the Urban History of Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds. "
AISU Lectures – Francesco Bandarin “I paesaggi culturali come patrimonio: origini, sviluppo e sfide attuali”
LINK is available for registration for the lesson!
The first lesson of the AISU Lectures will be held on Thursday 27 May 2021 at 18:00. The event will be online.
Francesco Bandarin will open the cycle of lectures with "I paesaggi culturali come patrimonio: origini, sviluppo e sfide attuali"
Pavia 2020 publication
The editorial review and refereeing of the contributions for the publication of the volume La città e la cura. Spazi, istituzioni, strategie, memoria. The city and healthcare. Spaces Institutions, Strategies, Memory" are underway. The submission of the evaluation results will take place for the first half of the reviewed essays by 10 May 2021 and by ...
The Global City - The Urban Condition as a Pervasive Phenomenon
The seven volumes of the publication “The global city - The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon” have been paginated. The authors have been contacted by e-mail (please check receipt, possibly verifying that your system has not inserted it by mistake in the spam folder) and can report small errors and typos by writing to the address ...
Designing the East Asian port cities. Circulation of building and planning models in early 20th century
It will take place on 12 April 2021 9am – 13pm (CET) – 3pm – 7pm (CST) the seminar “Designing the East Asian port cities. Circulation of building and planning models in early 20th century” Chairing: Heleni Porfyriou (National Research Council of Italy, CNR-ISPC) Georgina André (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – France), Hankou in Wuhan…
Publication of the volume "Food and the city"
New deadline on April 30, 2021 for sending contributions for the publication of the volume in the Insights series "Food and the city"
The archaeological walk and the role of Maria Pasolini
On 11 February 2021, at 6.30 pm, the conference by Maria Grazia Turco of the University of Rome La Sapienza will be held remotely, dedicated to "The archaeological walk and the role of Maria Pasolini". The intervention analyzes the complex events of the construction of the Archaeological Walk when, with the proclamation of the Unification of Italy, a heated debate on the conservation and enhancement of the ancient testimonies of the capital begins.
AISU members assembly
The AISU members assembly is convened remotely on Friday, 04 December 2020, at 5.30 pm.
Pubblicazione volumi “Multi-Ethnic cities in the Mediterranean World” Voll. 1-2
The two volumes, “Multi-Ethnic cities in the Mediterranean World” have been published entitled Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries and Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries.
AISU members assembly
The AISU memebers assembly remotely called on Friday, September 11, 2020, from 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm CET
Insights series - "The global city – The urban condition as pervasive phenomenon"
The brand-new book series Insights is delighted to announce its forthcoming first volume, expected to be released in autumn 2020. The book, entitled “The global city – The urban condition as pervasive phenomenon”.
"The city and healthcare: spaces, institutions, strategies, memory" - Call for Papers
UPDATE - We inform you that the congress will be held remotely. This is a contingent necessity, but which we interpret as a challenge, rather than a renunciation, both for the AISU and for the University of Pavia. For this reason, the Association and the organizers will propose a specific digital AISU congress format, relating to the methods of use and communication via the web
“Multiethnic Cities In The Mediterranean World. History, Culture, Heritage”
The first volume of the series "Urban History Series / Urban History" has been published entitled "Multiethnic Cities In The Mediterranean World. History, Culture, Heritage "