We are but a mere ten months (give or take) away from UHA 2020. In anticipation of the conference to be held in Detroit from October 8-11, 2020, The Metropole is featuring Detroit as our Metro of the Month for January. You can see our MotM posts for Detroit here.

We encourage all urbanists to consider submitting a paper or organizing a panel. You can find the “Contested Cities” CFP for UHA 2020 here.

For info about and a link to the UHA spreadsheet click here. The spreadsheet is meant to help urbanists find prospective panels and panelists.

All well and good, one might say, but what about a little financial bump for necessarily frugal graduate students traveling to the Motor City? We have some news for you!

The Urban History Association encourages graduate student submissions and will provide financial assistance for graduate students presenting work in Detroit. The UHA intends to partially reimburse presenting graduate students for travel expenses to/from Detroit. In addition, there will be conference volunteer opportunities in which graduate students willing to provide at least four hours of volunteer assistance will receive complimentary conference registration. You can check out our tweets about funding from Tuesday below as well!

THREAD!! ATTN URBAN HISTORY/STUDIES GRAD STUDENTS. Present your work

@UHA

conference in Detroit, 10/20. To help make this happen, @UHA

will partially reimburse presenting grad students for travel expenses

to/from conf. (1/3) — UHA (@UrbanHistoryA) January

7, 2020

In addition,

there will be volunteer opps @UHA

conference. Grad students willing to provide at least 4 hours of

assistance will receive complimentary conference registration. Link for panels — https://t.co/BM0oKhsl6H; Single papers, https://t.co/WWFDi4nlMO

(2/3) — UHA (@UrbanHistoryA) January

7, 2020

Featured image (at top): Olympic Mufflers (horizontal), 13600 Livernois, Detroit, Michigan, John Margolies, 1986, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress