03/09/2026
🔎 EAUH 2026 Conference: day 2
Thursday brings a packed programme of urban history research, with members of the UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History presenting research on topics such as consumption, food, gender, migration, inequality, tourism, trade, and the urban experience.
Presentations
Session 9 – Urban consumption and urban networks
Peter Stabel: Changes in Trade and Consumption: Urban Industries in Flanders and their Mediterranean Markets.
Session 29 – Feeding European Cities
Bruyet Cécile: On their plate? Urban households and their access to food via property rights to land (Antwerp, fifteenth–sixteenth century).
Session 40 – Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women's Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities
Lea Leboissetier: Gilding the Gutter. The lived experience of female street traders in growing British cities (1860–1950).
Rick Faust: Old Boys Network? Female Agency in the International Antiques Trade through Antwerp-based Antiques Dealer Marie Van Herck, 1910–1914.
Session 45 – Tracing urban inequalities in the past through census data and statistical sources
Joeri Aerts, Hilde Greefs and Paul Puschmann: Mortality inequalities between natives and migrants: Cause-specific mortality differences in the port city of Antwerp from a long-term perspective (1840–1920).
Session 49 – Railways and the consolidation of the urban network in Europe
Jasper Segerink: A Janus-faced street? Reconstructing the demographic geography in the ‘microscapes’ of Antwerp’s and Marseille’s railway station boulevards.
Session 63 – Changing emotions in changing cities
Ilja Van Damme: The Sound of Nineteenth-century Antwerp – towards an exploration of sonic territories in a modernizing city.
Lea Leboissetier: ‘No one was afraid of a young girl selling onions!’ How emotions shaped itinerant trading interaction in urban Britain (1850–1950).
Session 64 – How did cities entertain their guests?
Evert Lambrechts: Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878–1930).
Session chairs
Anneleen Arnout and Lea Leboissetier will chair Session 63: Changing emotions in changing cities.
More information on the sessions, including times and locations, can be found here: https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/
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