European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference 2026
2.9.-5.9.2026, Barcelona, Spain
The next European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference is scheduled to take place in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, from Wednesday September 2 to Saturday September 5, 2026.
The conferece’s central theme is ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’. City networks have played a strategically important role in both the past and the present. Cities and the connections between them have been just as influential—if not more so—than states in shaping Europe and extending its influence beyond the continent, especially through colonial relationships. Although the history of Europe is often identified with states and nations, it is largely the history of its networked cities.
With its focus on cities and the networked urban world, the Seventeenth EAUH Conference also aims to foster cross-disciplinary approaches between history, geography, urbanism, architecture, heritage, museum studies and other human and environmental sciences, all of which are critical sources of knowledge for the preservation of contemporary democratic culture.
There are 100 sessions accepted for the EAUH Barcelona Conference 2026. Regardless of their type, all sessions will be organised together in clusters defined to foster the interests, contacts and choices of the attendees.
There are 3 types of sessions, as is usual at EAUH conferences: main sessions (2 time slots, 180 minutes), specialist sessions (1 time slot, 90 minutes) and roundtables (1 time slot, exceptionally 2). In all cases there will be time for presentations and for dialogue and questions.
Candidates to present a paper or to participate in a roundtable must send the abstract of their proposal with no more than 450 words through the website before October 22, 2025. Each author can submit a maximum of one single-authored proposal, two co-authored proposals, or one-single authored and one co-authored paper.
Notification of acceptance is set for Friday December 5, 2025. Conference and session organisers have the right to request modifications to submitted paper and rountable proposals.
Registration to the Conference. All authors of approved proposals (as is also the case with the organizers of the sessions), must register as soon as possible from 19 January 2026 to validate definitively their participation. Bursaries applications will also begin on January 19th. Early bird registrations will last until April 20th.
The call for sessions is now open until October 22 on: https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/
