
!ATTN: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE URBAN HUMANISTS
URBAN HUMANITIES — GLOBAL (UN)CONFERENCE 2
ST LOUIS, MISSOURI | OCTOBER 16-18, 2025


(Un)Conference Schedule Overview
A detailed program will be shared in late August.
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Thursday, October 16
8:30-9:30a: Check-in/Registration, Breakfast & Coffee (provided)
9:30-10:00a: Welcome
10:00-11:30a: Pre-workshops (concurrent sessions)
11:30a-1:00p: Lunch (provided)
1:00-2:30p: Pre-workshops (concurrent sessions)
4:00-6:00p: Lighting talks
Friday, October 17
8:30-9:00a: Breakfast & Coffee (provided)
9:00-11:00a: Experiential & Site-Specific Sessions (Concurrent Sessions)
12:00-1:00p: Lunch (provided)
1:00-2:00p: Mini-Workshops
(Concurrent Sessions)
2:00-3:00p: Mini-Workshops
(Concurrent Sessions)
4:00-6:00p: Poster Session
Saturday, October 18
8:30-9:30a: Breakfast & Coffee (provided)
9:30a-12:00p: Experiential, Site-Specific, and Mini-Workshop sessions
(Concurrent Sessions)
12:00-1:00p: Lunch
1:00-2:30p: Roundtables
(Concurrent Sessions)
2:30-4:00p: Roundtables
(Concurrent Session)
4:00-8:00p: Keynote, dinner & celebration
Sunday, October 19
(4-hours) Time - TBA: Optional Mississippi River canoe trip with Big Muddy
(limited seats, additional costs required; registration coming soon)
Hotel Block Registration: Coming Soon
We are pleased to offer a range of session formats designed to foster engagement, dialogue, and exchanges. Each format invites participants to actively engage with the presenters and materials in unique way:
Site-specific & Experiential Sessions: These sessions extend beyond the traditional conference and into the St. Louis region -- offering place-based experiences that ground ideas in the region. Engage with research and methodologies in situ, through walking tours, installations, field activities, and on-site investigations.
Pre-Workshop: Designed for focused engagement, these sessions begin with pre-circulated materials—papers, syllabi, project briefs, or design research—distributed in advance. Participants come prepared for thoughtful, focused dialogue, offering a space to engage peers in meaningful critique, reflection, and discussion around evolving work.
Mini-Workshop: These interactive, hands-on sessions introduce participants to new tools, methods, practices, or approaches. Through guided activities and collaborative exercises, attendees will gain practical insight into emerging methodologies.
Public roundtable discussions: Each roundtable speaker will begin with brief remarks framing their perspectives, followed by an open-ended, self-directed discussion. Audience engagement is central—participants are encouraged to contribute questions, ideas, and provocations that help shape the evolving conversation
Lightning talks: These 5-minute, high-energy presentations showcase a range of work—from early-stage research and in-progress scholarship to experimental initiatives and project pitches. This format is ideal for surfacing emerging ideas, testing concepts, and identifying potential collaborators in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
Poster Session: The poster session will open with a focused discussion on experimental exhibitions, offering critical insight into urban humanities focused exhibitions. Following this, attendees are invited to engage directly with poster presenters in an open, conversational format.
List of Registered Participants
Åbo Akademi University
Black Heritage Society of Eufaula, AL
Cal Poly Pomona
California State University, Channel Islands
California State University, Fresno
Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX)
Champlain College
Columbia University
Concordia University
Florida International University
Gabriela Los Angeles
Harvard University
Hunter College
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Independent planning and economic development practitioner
James Madison University
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Lawrence Technological University
Miami University
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The Ohio State University
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Princeton University
Queen Mary University of London
Royal College of Art
San Francisco State University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Southern California Association of Governments
The New School; Laboratory for Urban Spatial and Landscape Research
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord
University College London
University College of the North
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkley
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Manitoba
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vanderbilt University
Velaslavasay Panorama
Wabash College
Walking Cinema
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne State University
Yale University
Registration information coming soon for attendees.
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