Urban History Association Annual Conference
- October 13, 2016 - October 16, 2016
- 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM CST
- Water Tower Campus
-
Loyola University Chicago
Timothy Gilfoyle, tgilfoy@luc.edu - Registration Fee
- Not open to the public.
- Add to calendar
-
Details
The Eighth Biennial Urban History Association Conference will be held in the Corboy Law Center at WTC on 13-16 October 2016. The event promises to be the largest academic conference ever held at LUC. For four days, the conference will be home to approximately 550 urban historians, writers, scholars and journalists from six continents, 40 states, the District of Columbia and a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea. Conference participants will be involved in more than 150 panels, plenaries, roundtables, and tours during their four days in Chicago. More than 20 LUC faculty, alumni and students are on the program and 15 to 20 LUC graduate and undergraduate student volunteers will assist in running the conference. The major sponsors of the conference include Loyola University Chicago's College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School, Department of History, and Center for Urban Research and Learning; the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame; the Chicago History Museum; the Minow Family Foundation; and the University of Chicago Press.
