CfP: Urbanities of Belonging: Emigres from East Central Europe in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities

 CfP: Urbanities of Belonging: Emigres from East Central Europe in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Cities, Session 42 at the EAUH 2026 Conference, 2-5 September 2026, Barcelona.

Organisers: Markian Prokopovych (Durham University) and Katalin Straner (York St John University / Newcastle University).

Keywords: urban identity, urban networks, migration, modern Europe, global

This session seeks to examine the ways in which emigres from East Central Europe found new homes in cities outside of the region and how they were linked through urban networks and emerging identities in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The geographical scope includes but is not limited to Europe.

https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session42