International Commission for the History of Towns

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Description

Addressing the overall theme of Urban Order, the ICHT(link is external) 2022 programme takes a comparative historical and geographical approach to explore Crisis in Urban Order. This year is pertinent as it marks the centenary of the Partition of Ireland, and the creation of a border between ‘north’ and ‘south’ with profound implications for urban order across the island, with enduring impacts and legacies.

The ICHT 2022 conference themes encompass a range of ‘crises’ and their spatial, cultural and material impacts and manifestations on the towns and cities of Europe. The programme spans the island of Ireland, between ‘north’ and ‘south’, by being based in two locations, Dublin/Maynooth and Derry/Londonderry. It builds on an existing collaboration between the Irish Historic Towns Atlas and the British Historic Towns Atlas(link is external) programmes and, in the spirit of connecting Ireland north and south in this centenary year, it is jointly convened by Dublin City University, Maynooth University, the Royal Irish Academy and Queen’s University Belfast, with support from Derry City Council.

The programme explores three manifestations of ‘crisis’ in urban order—1. Conflict and the city—impacts of war, insurrection, protest, riots; 2. Pestilence and plague—impacts of disease, climate, sanitation, supplies; 3. Religions and crisis—impacts of dissent, reformations, factionalism, heresy. The conference papers are international and range across the medieval, early modern and modern eras, encouraging comparative study, as well as enabling geographical comparisons across Europe. Topics covered by the papers include 1. Spatial order of the urban landscape; 2. Political order of urban governance; 3. Social order of population and people. Papers offer case studies of countries, regions and cities, exploring a range of spatial scales of ‘crisis in urban order’.
Period12 Sept 202217 Sept 2022
Event typeConference
LocationDublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational