The Urban History Association seeks proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, posters, workshops, retrospectives, lightning rounds, professional development opportunities, and many other kinds of sessions on any aspect of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history in the United States and globally.
Our goal is to convene a vibrant and generative conference that will showcase new research, consider the state of the field, engage with a broad public, and introduce new audiences and new communities to our area of study.
The conference theme, “Metropolitan Majorities,” reflects trends across the world: the ongoing population growth of cities and their metropolitan areas; the rising ethnoracial and cultural diversity of urban and suburban places; the increasing concentration of economic activities; and the contentious politics that have accompanied these changes.
This is our first meeting not just in Los Angeles, but also in California and on the West Coast. Holding our conference in a metropolitan region approaching twenty million people—one that is highly diverse, extremely wealthy and unequal, globally connected, and a preeminent center of cultural production— offers an ideal venue to think about these trends, their historical antecedents, and their present implications.
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2025. Watch the conference trailer here: https://videopress.com/v/EmjzOGI1
Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University) for the UHA 2025 LA Program Committee
